Memes are hard...Book meme

The books I'm reading: Kim Harrison's A Perfect Blood, Night Carnival by Erin Morgenstern. I also have Steven Healey's How I Became a Famous Novelist and Game Change lurking in the background. Probably will shift to As You Desire by Connie Brockaway or Tears of Gold by Laurie McBain...yes, I'm taking a brief break from the romance novel kick, but I think I may go back again. I know none of these books are great or good, but they are distracting and fun.

Books I'm writing: Doing Time on Planet Earth - finished and revising, so not the same exactly, Mirror Stones - may never get done, and The Sanctity of Water - also a pipedream - almost completely plotted in my head, but not really written. Also blogging. And work. And church listserve.

The last book I received as a gift: Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

The last book I gave as a gift: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin to my niece.

The nearest book: Kindle - A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison.

SMG, Ringer, Revenge, Parenthood...and violence in tv...

I can't quite put my finger on it but there's something about the actress Sara Michele Gellar-Prince that I find appealing. ( Read more... )

In stark contrast...Revenge continues to be fun...and tightly written. I was completely right about the who-dunnit. Right down to how it was done.

Parenthood also continues to be good, skirting the soap-opera melodrama that Brothers and Sisters often fell into. The acting is subtle and top-notch, as is the writing...continuing to focus unflinchingly on the issues of parenthood.

Haven't seen the last two episodes of Justified - I'm taking a break from violent male dominated dramas...I love Justified, the dialogue and writing are brilliant, but for some reason that violence is getting to me. I don't know why.
The Dewey episode with the kidney transplants had me cringing instead of applauding.
And I happen to know the urban legend they were referencing really well. Urban folklorist in a past life. Elmore Leonard is amongst the best out there when it comes to dialogue and Justified is the best written. It's just so unrelentingly violent. Graphic "realistic" Violence used to not bother me. Why does it now? This makes no sense to me. Why do I have no problems with the violence in Vamp Diaries, Harrison's novel, True Blood or even the Game of Thrones tv series, but suddenly am struggling with shows like Justified? Is it that the violence is too real...and less comic-booky?
I don't know. Don't understand why it is bugging me all of a sudden. Maybe just a phase.

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Alright..taking a bit of time out to admit the latest Mark Watches post amused me.

Highlights:
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I think my Buffy poll is finally done. I'll close it Friday night. With 75 participants, S3 is still not much of a favorite, only 11 people list it as a favorite and only 6 as their favorite of all the seasons. S5 is still ahead by a wide margin, with S6 a few lags behind, and S7/S3 tied for third place, S4 is in fourth,
S2 is in fifth and S1 dead last. Apparently the majority of my flist or whomever took the poll prefers the latter seasons to the earlier ones. I'm guessing they are mostly Spike fans like myself...because let's face it he's not in the earlier seasons. If you are a Spike fan, you probably won't rank 1-3 as your overall favorite or 1st. The people who tend to put S3 first - I've noticed - aren't Spike fans, but Faith or Xander fans. Poor souls. You really got gypped. Faith hardly has much of an arc.
Angel/David Boreanze fans, I don't feel sorry for, they got an entire series featuring their hero. Plus Bones. Frigging lucky people. While us Spike/James Marsters fans, got barely anything in comparison. I really need to stop becoming enamored of quirky character actors.