Mr Psmith and started a revisit of Buffy the Vampire Slayer about a month ago; we began with Episode 1, Season 1 and have been working our way through it, relishing every minute of it, and finally finished last night. I'd forgotten what emotional powerhouses the last few episodes are, just one thing after another: [Spoiler (click to open)]Xander's speech to the Potentials ( Read more... )

I have another "reptilian hindbrain" surprise, but I think I'll save that in favor of one that I was reminded of last night as we were watching Supernatural (digression: Yay the Impala!) and enjoying the classic rock music ( Read more... )

Having finished the freelance consulting work which absorbed (sucked dry?) most of my free time for the past six months, I've fallen back into reading with a vengeance. Thus:

Caleb's Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks. Brooks just gets better and better. I started out with People of the Book and was a convert almost immediately; Year of Wonders ( Read more... )

Finished the last of the Dark Tower series (seven of them! hence the gaps in posting). This is a seriously epic work, and I'm not referring to the length (ok, not JUST the length). The technical elements (theme, character, plot, etc) are all present and accounted for in a more than satisfactory manner, but you've also got personal, universal, ( Read more... )

What fun this was!! The author, George Gaylord Simpson, was a noted paleontologist, and his tale of Dr Magruder (whose degrees include AChA3*, whatever that means) who falls from his research lab in 2162AD through the gap between time quanta (tiny discrete packets of time) into the late Cretaceous period, is a terrific read. My only complaint: ( Read more... )