Castle Premiere Squeeing and New Books
I feel like I'm late posting about the premiere of ABC's Castle, but omg I have missed this show like mad. Does anyone else watch it?
Seriously, Andrew Marlowe knows how to write and produce a storyline. I have never once felt like he was dragging out Castle and Beckett's inevitable relationship, which is no small task when the show is starting on year four and there's been sexual tension between the two since day one. The man knows how to deliver those earth shattering moments without giving fans exactly what they want.
It's like...foreplay. Really, really good foreplay.
And what I love about him even more is that he's very upfront about what's going on with the characters and with the big ship in the show. Especially in one of his recent interviews about where Castle and Beckett are at in light of the big season 3 finale game changer.
Hart Hanson, you should be taking notes.
In other news, I've started reading Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series. I'm only two chapters into book one, so no spoilers, please.
I've not read the Draco Trilogy that everyone is pissy about. Honestly, I couldn't care less about whether or not the series is basically a rewrite of that. And admittedly, I've purposefully not looked up info on the whole fandom scandal or whatever.
However, I will say that these opening chapters leave me rather...underwhelmed. Parts of her writing are tedious (if I have to read one more thing about tawny-eyes, I'm going to legit freak out) and immature stylistically. Actually, I can understand why Stephanie Meyer would endorse this book...
But, I'm going to keep reading. Maybe Clare will pull a reverse Collins and get better with each book. Because right now it's reading like some sort of teenager writing fanfiction. I do have to commend her on her dialogue, though. While I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's reminiscent of Buffy (like my book does), there are things that make me chuckle to myself. Basically anything that comes out of Simon's mouth at this point. It's definitely something to be appreciated. :)
I don't know if this is a theme with YA literature nowadays, but authors seem to like to quote classic literature before the story starts. Maybe I've just been noticing it more since my professors have forced these novels/poems/plays down my throat for the past two years. Clare has Shakespeare and Milton prefacing book one. And then follows up with some Virgil in the original Latin, which...relevance of having it untranslated? I wonder if she's just putting these quotes in because they are relevant to the plot or solely because of the book partition name. The world may never know..
Seriously, Andrew Marlowe knows how to write and produce a storyline. I have never once felt like he was dragging out Castle and Beckett's inevitable relationship, which is no small task when the show is starting on year four and there's been sexual tension between the two since day one. The man knows how to deliver those earth shattering moments without giving fans exactly what they want.
It's like...foreplay. Really, really good foreplay.
And what I love about him even more is that he's very upfront about what's going on with the characters and with the big ship in the show. Especially in one of his recent interviews about where Castle and Beckett are at in light of the big season 3 finale game changer.
Hart Hanson, you should be taking notes.
In other news, I've started reading Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series. I'm only two chapters into book one, so no spoilers, please.
I've not read the Draco Trilogy that everyone is pissy about. Honestly, I couldn't care less about whether or not the series is basically a rewrite of that. And admittedly, I've purposefully not looked up info on the whole fandom scandal or whatever.
However, I will say that these opening chapters leave me rather...underwhelmed. Parts of her writing are tedious (if I have to read one more thing about tawny-eyes, I'm going to legit freak out) and immature stylistically. Actually, I can understand why Stephanie Meyer would endorse this book...
But, I'm going to keep reading. Maybe Clare will pull a reverse Collins and get better with each book. Because right now it's reading like some sort of teenager writing fanfiction. I do have to commend her on her dialogue, though. While I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's reminiscent of Buffy (like my book does), there are things that make me chuckle to myself. Basically anything that comes out of Simon's mouth at this point. It's definitely something to be appreciated. :)
I don't know if this is a theme with YA literature nowadays, but authors seem to like to quote classic literature before the story starts. Maybe I've just been noticing it more since my professors have forced these novels/poems/plays down my throat for the past two years. Clare has Shakespeare and Milton prefacing book one. And then follows up with some Virgil in the original Latin, which...relevance of having it untranslated? I wonder if she's just putting these quotes in because they are relevant to the plot or solely because of the book partition name. The world may never know..