Books finished:

The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation is Shaking up the Workplace by Ron Alsop (2 pts) - Yet another book that tries to talk about an entire generation based only on the actions and attitudes of its elite East Coast representatives. The author makes a few good points about that select few, but then reverts to ( Read more... )

That makes two.

Being Human knocked my socks off. As far as shows about angsty, supernatural creatures go, this has become the paragon in my mind. So I eagerly await the second series.

Two months later, another show has come along that nearly took my feet along with the socks. NBC has been burning off a Canadian series called The Listener. ( Read more... )

Books finished:

Seek by Paul Fleischman (audio) (1 pt) - An audio book that simply would not have worked in text form only. The main character is a high school student who was raised by his single mother. His English teacher assigns him to do an autobiography, so he creates his from the sounds that shaped his life. As his absentee father was a DJ ( Read more... )

Posting a couple days late, here.

Books finished:

The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess (2) - A satire about a future world suffering from out-of-control human population growth. This story was probably a lot funnier when it was published in the 60s because of how many taboo ideas it proposes as reasonable solutions to dealing with population ( Read more... )