Comments | rose_griffes: Waaaaah, wait, where has December gone?!

rose_griffes

Waaaaah, wait, where has December gone?!

Dec 30, 2013 22:04

Fan-related presents: I received a lovely Christmas card from one of you lovely people--you know who you are, and thank you!

I also received a sweet little story in Yuletide Madness: Time Enough, a post-finale Sarah Connor/James Ellison fic. About 500 words, rated PG.

What else? I've been reading some. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was ( Read more... )

movies, fic rec, books

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rap541 December 31 2013, 04:13:56 UTC

I think i still owe you jean barolay meta D:

I will do it tommorow!

rose_griffes January 3 2014, 00:57:28 UTC

By what definition of tomorrow, exactly? ;-P

I hope you had a good new year!

rap541 January 3 2014, 02:29:01 UTC

In the Dr Who sense! :D

I promise as soon as I remember more about Jean than "she died stupidly in season four" I will have meta!

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rose_griffes January 3 2014, 00:58:25 UTC

Happy New Year to you as well!

Mockingjay does have enough to split it in half. Not that I'm necessarily in favor of that, but at least there's sufficient stuff there to make it work.

brickhousewench December 31 2013, 17:35:52 UTC

The Duchess War by Courtney Milan is a fun romance novel

I've read some of her other books and liked them. Thanks for the recommendation.

Haven't made it to the next Hobbit movie yet. Which is weird, because I loved the LOTR. Need to get working on that (and I guess that's my critique of what Jackson has done to this book, that I wasn't there opening day....)

rose_griffes January 3 2014, 01:03:42 UTC

The Duchess War is definitely my favorite by her. But I think I'm about ready for a dive into some sci-fi next.

I don't know that I would have bothered watching the second Hobbit movie in theaters if my nephew hadn't wanted to see it. And even he said it felt "stretched"--that there wasn't enough material there, so what they did film seemed to go on and on. (The barrel ride segment, for example, could have been much shorter.)

I was quite pleased with Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel. I know not everyone is going to love an original character, but I tend to agree that these stories are, well, a sausage fest. It's good to have some moments to break that up. And while I didn't much appreciate the romance angle, there was definitely lots more to Tauriel than that. Some nice characterization for the scenes she had, and plenty of eye-rollingly implausible action. (The elf fighting scenes have been like that since the first of the LotR movies, in my opinion, so this is not a Tauriel-specific problem.)