A series as dense and complicated as A Song of Ice and Fire could never be made into a proper film series and still retain most of what makes the books so great, so it's good that we live in a golden age of television, where HBO can throw its support behind a television series and actually have George R.R. Martin involved. And what they have ( Read more... )

Tonight I played fourteen parts in one night. And to think I used to think three parts was a lot. I was a hippie, a newsie, a town crier/beatnik, a lady-in-waiting, four sister princesses, and six citizens. It was exhausting. But hilarious.

Seanan McGuire brings her talent for creating strong, snarky heroines and detailed worlds to the realm of ( Read more... )

Zombies are the zeitgeist, and one of the major pieces of fiction that kicked off this trend is The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard (with Tony Moore on the first volume) (Goodreads reviews: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6, Vol. 7, Vol. 8, Vol. 9, Vol. 10, Vol. 11, Vol. 12, Vol. 13, Vol. 14, Vol. 15, Vol. 16, Vol. ( Read more... )

With my John Green binge over, I'm not sure what to read for my next audiobook. I'm not going to start something new before I go home for the holidays, but I will want something to jump into next year. Maybe Cloud Atlas will be free again.

Paper Towns, by John Green (read by Dan John Miller), might as well be called Looking for Margo, as it ( Read more... )

After 6 months and 11 days, I have read A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and, finally, A Dance with Dragons.

I don't know what to do with my life anymore.

Time to watch Game of Thrones!

( A Dance with Dragons )

Right now Of Monsters and Men are keeping me sane at work. In my six-and-a-half years at this company, I have never actually wanted to quit. Until now. It's just too much. Thank you, Iceland, for this musical salve.

Here, have a book review I forgot to post a month ago.

While I had no specific desire to read Duma Key, I jumped at the chance to ( Read more... )

After loving The Fault in Our Stars, I decided to go on a John Green binge, starting with his first book. Looking for Alaska is the story of Miles Halter, ironically dubbed "Pudge" by his roommate because he's so thin, and the friends he makes at boarding school. These include his roommate, Chip, who calls himself "The Colonel," and Takumi, who is ( Read more... )

One of the best things about getting a Kindle is that Project Gutenberg has tons of classic works available for free! So I took the opportunity to read the entire Sherlock Holmes canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It took me ten months, but I finally finished.

( A Study in Scarlet )

A Song of Ice and Fire is the song that never ends! Yes, it goes on and on, my friends. After the thousands of pages of A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, and A Storm of Swords, there are people still left alive to have stories to tell.

( A Feast for Crows )

Sometimes you have thoughts that are just too emo to share anywhere but your own LiveJournal.

Like the fact that you know there are two certainties in life: you will never know requited love, and your parents will never be proud of you.

There, that's better, you've missed that hole in your chest.

Chalk up another New York Times bestseller for ( Read more... )