I was with Torchwood from the beginning. I made it through their shag of the week first season. Their infinitely better second season. Children of Earth was a gripping and tight phenomenon that left me in tears. But this season... Man, it's just sucking.

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I have been on a tear of reading lately. Here are the things I plowed through in the last week.

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Labeling Fun Home as "A Family Tragi-Comic" is completely appropriate. This memoir is a detailed examination of Bechdel's life, her growing up, her awakening to her own sexuality, and the revelation about her father's ( Read more... )

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Over at The Wild Hunt there is a great interview with Jeff Sharlet author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American PowerIt's really an interesting detail of american politics, and the people who have the ear of government. I knew that fundamentalism was rampant among american politics, I just didn't know that it was so ( Read more... )

I have never done this, but I'm completely enthralled with Joe Hill's "20th Century Ghosts" that I wanted to talk about it without having finished the book. "20th" is a collection of short stories by Joe Hill*, so it's not so bad to gush about it early since I've read about half of the complete stories in the book ( Read more... )