I don’t think I’ve mentioned that I read the whole Hunger Games series in between reading A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. I liked the books okay, though not enough for me to have strong fannish feelings.

I’m still really looking forward to a film version. Something about the books: I always thought there was something cinematic in the way ( Read more... )

Downton Abbey sure wasted no time going for the !drama! in S2. I just watched the second episode, and there were how many romantic entanglements? And I don't know if it's my player or a bad copy of the episode, but I feel like some scenes just...stop. The music swells and then it stops and I feel like something got cut out. Is that just me?

(Oh and ( Read more... )

The cast for the upcoming film of the Les Miserables musical. I just...what?

Anne Hathaway, really? I've nothing against her, but I feel like she's always getting (mis)cast to star as everyone in everything. And it's gonna take work to make Helena Bonham Carter over into someone as charmless and repulsive as the Thenardiess ( Read more... )

It’s another one! So, this idea has been rattling around in my head (‘crawled into my attic’, as Deryn Sharp would say) ever since I finished Goliath on a fictional-world high.

For the record, like many fans of Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan book series, I think that an animated adaptation with Keith Thompson’s stylings would be a dream. It would add ( Read more... )

Saw this while poking around on book blogs. Apparently, these are the top YA books/series for 2011. I know I'm just supposed to bold what I’ve read but I added my own touch to it…

Read
Eyeing With Interest
To-Read Pile
Have Not Read. Do Not Want
and: ♥

( I pledge to read the printed word )

I wrote this ‘bout a week ago after I had just finished reading Goliath. skywanderer, babe, you can come out of ninja hiding now; here is the flaily post!

Back when I was read the first book and Alek and Deryn first met on the glacier, I thought, “hey it would probably be cute if they started having feelings for each other, because y’know, this is classic boy ( Read more... )

This is mostly a happy post but I would just like to get this out of the way: dear world, I can love fictional ladies who are brilliant at what they do just as much as I can love an underdog heroine. Stop with the insta-MARY SUE label already. Just. STOP. *lion claws ( Read more... )

I got my copy of Goliath today! And what do you think Mr. Scott “My Canon Couples Consistently Have Sad-to-Bittersweet Endings” Westerfeld put in the dedication?

( potential spoilers )

I’ve got exams tomorrow at an unholy hour of the morning. Drop me something to look forward to in my inbox? ; )

If you make up titles for stories I didn't write, I will respond with details of those non-written stories. Just think of the possibilities!

Ughhh, infamous fanfic author turned YA author. Just because a character has the same name as you, doesn’t mean you can rip off her lovely quotes . LEAVE MY BELOVED SKINS ALONE, y/y?

World, what is up with you today?

To update from last entry: someone else took the debate over for me --WHY IS IT EVEN A DEBATE??-- and is far more vicious than I was… ( Read more... )