( Obviously contains spoilers for the end of Parade's End )

I wouldn't mind the Red Riding Hood poster, and it's all annlarimer's fault!So I'm watching Once Upon a Time.  I don't think I need to give my reasons why.  I love fairy tales and all their variants.  Since it's an ABC show, the characters are all based on Disney versions of the stories.  This bothers me a bit, when I think about it, but it's not like fairy ( Read more... )

I'm watching the opening credits for Seven, which I probably hadn't seen in forever, and it occurs to me that film and TV directors always depict psychotic serial killers as the most inventively amazing art journalers.  Like, I would envy their talent if it didn't seem to come with the side order of murder.

Have some reveiws of books I am not finished reading!

I picked up Craig Thompson's Habibi because that man can draw the shit out of stuff.  Each page is an exploration of beautiful things done in ink.  However, I have to admit, I am troubled by Hipster White Boy deciding he needs to explain Islam to the (white) masses.  I know he spent some time in ( Read more... )

I haven't posted here in...how long has it been?  Not months, or anything, but for a semi-regular poster it feels like something close.

I'm reaching the countdown !!DAYS!! until my Practicum paperwork is due (NO EXCEPTIONS!) and I am still not firmly placed.  This is...something I can't even talk about still because if I think about it too hard, it ( Read more... )

So here's the deal.  When I read a book about the love of books, as I recently did, and books I have not read are mentioned, it makes me want to read those books.  As was the case in Among Others regarding Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.  It so happens that I have been holding onto a copy of the Complete Chronicles, a loaner from my brother (also a ( Read more... )

and it occurred to me that, even half-way through, I cannot wait to recommend NK Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.  It is made of so much awesome and win.  It...it...defies any description I attempt to give it, and that is hard.  I can usually summarize a book cogently in three sentences or less.   But something is stopping me.  Perhaps it's ( Read more... )

It makes me go RRAAARR!!!

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First it was whatever that song is that Owl City has on the pop charts.  And if you don't know what I'm talking about, consider yourself blessed.

Then I thought, at least it isn't Ghostland Observatory, which then caused that song I hate to get stuck in there.

I was going crazy, I tell you.

But then I read this article, and "Waterloo" is now on repeat ( Read more... )

So I was reading this book, and hated it. I HATED IT. I wouldn't stop reading it, for some reason, which boded ill for my temperament. The story was interesting enough, I suppose, but every time I opened it to read, I would become annoyed. So I skipped to the end, thanked my lucky stars I had not invested more time (and also that it was a ( Read more... )