This episode will probably be on my Hugo nomination ballot next year. So, with that as an introduction, THE CARPING! (Because it's me.)

( Cut for major spoilers about the episode, minor spoilers about A Dance With Dragons. Hey, I wasn't the showrunner who decided to pull that plot into this season. )

Dance With Dragons

Ok, it's been almost a week, and I can't bear it any more. Plus, waiting for critical business call and need the distraction. So! Not a formal review, but, just notes:

( Major spoilers for the entire book. )

1) Barnes and Noble will, oddly enough, put A Dance With Dragons in a huge display area in the front of the store but not have any copies in the science fiction/fantasy section, which will get slightly interesting if you entered through the video/music section of the store and headed to the science fiction/fantasy section first and then got ( Read more... )

First, for GRRM fans that somehow missed this, The Geekologie map of Westeros which is…really stunning. And, since I can't remember if I recommended this before, I need to link to The Inn at the Crossroads, a blog steadily plodding through recipes to every. single. dish. mentioned in the book series ( Read more... )

The greatest book in the series so far (the initial reviews for A Dance With Dragons are making me hopeful), and the first book that actually made me scream out loud at the characters. AUUGH ( Read more... )

The reread continues. Note: although I mostly talk about Clash of Kings here, I have some mild spoilers for books three and four and some speculation about Dance With Dragons. And now, onwards!

( Spoilers ahead! )

Note: To be all mysterious for a moment, some of you have asked me to comment publicly on a couple of things that happened over the weekend. I am....mulling over my public response to both things, and let's just leave it there for a moment, ok? Generally speaking, and
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Game of Thrones

Go TEAM DANY!

My current plan is to have a general discussion of the entire television series up in a couple of days, followed by individual discussions of the books as we approach the publication date of Dance With Dragons. Of course, this involves following a plan, never one of my strengths. So, a few brief comments about ( Read more... )

Yay! Despite the excitement of international conference calls, we did get through this episode!

Warning: mildly spoilery for all of the books, plus a very small spoiler for Dance of Dragons that already appeared on GRRM's blog, plus spoilers for all the episodes so far and sniffly comments about horsies. (SNIFFLE!)

( We're all clear: spoilers ahead, right? )

Annalee Newitz, taking the correct response of actually thinking, rather than just sputtering in response, asks, really, why would men ever watch the Game of Thrones. Hilarious stuff.

Eat it, New York Times, indeed. (Statement stolen shamelessly from Twitter's Bryan Cogman.)