GuardianWhich I've already talked about a lot, but hey, how often do you find an amazingly tropey sf/crime drama that's this much fun and also has a delightful active fandom on DW? This is basically a long casefic-type slashfic that got filmed in its entirety and then had all the actual sex and kissing deleted but everything else kept in. ( Read more... )

A selection of reviews from the past few months.

1632 series by Eric Flint and many othersSurprisingly good fun. Unapologetic hijinks and worldbuilding and wargaming, but fun with it. I've read the first two books and the 'Ring of Fire' collection of published fanfic, and some of them were awesomely good (and a few absolute stinkers, but them's ( Read more... )

1. Ten in Ten kind of turned into Three in Three, but I'm still pleased with myself. Plus, I had a steady trickle of happy readers commenting all weekend, and that made a very uphill sort of weekend a lot better. (Including literally uphill, as Mr P tossed aside my suggestion of a nice flat riverside walk in favour of one he assured me repeatedly ( Read more... )

- I now believe that in that phrase 'barefoot and pregnant', the woman is barefoot because it's a complete pain trying to get your socks and shoes on when you're heavily pregnant. Especially if the range of contortions possible to touch your feet is strictly limited by the fact that your pelvis tries to fall apart when you move in asymmetric ways. ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the cracks of the past couple of months, I have read various books and watched various stuff. Have an assortment of mini-reviews:

Das BootWWII submarine drama, told from a German perspective. I like submarine films, and I tend to think of them as the real-world equivalent of spaceship stories, with the close confines of the ship and ( Read more... )

So, it was lucky for me that the film came out right when my son was having a day at his school's Saturday Club, and Mr P and I went to see it. It's great.

( spoilers great and small )

( seven mini-reviews and a picture )

Some books:

The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail CarrigerSteampunk paranormal romance adventures. These are basically over-the-top crazy romps through steampunk London with werewolves and vampires. The adventures are entertaining, the characters are fun, the worldbuilding is nice, and the romance is sweet. Plus, a pregnant heroine in several of ( Read more... )

I think there are probably a number of people on my flist who can help me with this one. My knowledge of Shakespeare is shamefully lacking. We studied Othello at school, and I've watched various other plays, but there are great gaping holes in my education. Macbeth, say, or Richard III, or King Lear, or The Tempest. I would like to remedy this as ( Read more... )

Another batch of short film reviews. ( ten or so films from the past months )