These are many months belated, and I am ashamed—but better late and incomplete than nothing, because what I don't record I'll forget I watched and never be able to recommend. The takeaways from this batch were: Ravenous, a cult movie that I'm surprised I hadn't encountered before because it is such fun—it feels like it should have overlap with the ( Read more... )

Title: Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch Book 2)
Author: Ann Leckie
Published: New York: Orbit, 2014
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 350
Total Page Count: 181,820
Text Number: 535
Read Because: continuing the series, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Breq is sent to Athoek Station, home to Lieutenant Awn's sister, to stabilize the ( Read more... )

The Great British Bake Off (The Great British Baking Show), series 5, 2014 ( Read more... )

Title: Fingersmith
Author: Sarah Waters
Published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2011 (2002)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 582
Total Page Count: 170,311
Text Number: 498
Read Because: fan of the author, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: In Victorian England, petty thief Sue Trinder agrees to help con a naïve young woman out of ( Read more... )

Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Author: James M. Cain
Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2010 (1934)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 98
Total Page Count: 166,932
Text Number: 489
Read Because: listed here, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: When a drifter lands a temporary job at a roadside diner, he sparks a dangerous ( Read more... )

A Simple Plan, film, 1998, dir. Sam Raimi ( Read more... )