TV #16 of 2016: Bosch, season 2 I’m pretty sure my dad and I are the only people watching this show, but I really like it. I’m a sucker for a good police procedural so long as the acting and writing are up to the task, and they definitely are in Bosch. This season was …
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TV Review: Fargo, season 1
TV #15 of 2016: Fargo, season 1 This was a very strong season of television. Of course, I’m a sucker for a shared universe, so I love the fact that this season tells a self-contained story that is nevertheless a sequel to the original Coen Brothers movie. (And that the next season is a prequel …
TV Review: Marvel’s Daredevil, season 2
TV #14 of 2016: Marvel’s Daredevil, season 2 I don’t know with this one. I still really like this show’s take on Daredevil (and Kingpin!), and this new season introduces us to the MCU versions of Elektra and the Punisher, who are possibly even more perfect. On the other hand, this season was kind of …
Book Review: Mistborn: Secret History by Brandon Sanderson
Book #28 of 2016: Mistborn: Secret History by Brandon Sanderson This novella is honestly not one of Brandon Sanderson’s best pieces of storytelling. But that’s fine, because it’s not aiming to be. It’s instead more of a behind-the-scenes sort of deal, showing what one particular character was up to during the second and third Mistborn …
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Book Review: Lifeboats by Diane Duane
Book #27 of 2016: Lifeboats by Diane Duane (Young Wizards #9.5) Lifeboats is an “interim” novella in the Young Wizards series, taking place in the narrative gap between main novels A Wizard of Mars (#9) and Games Wizards Play (#10). There are two other stories by Duane that also fall in that gap, “Not on …
Movie Review: Thor (2011)
Movie #7 of 2016: Thor (2011) I was only rewatching this film to look up the scene where Coulson mentions linguistics, but by the time I found it there were only about 20 minutes left, so I went ahead and finished. I feel like this is one of the less memorable MCU titles, and it …
Book Review: Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
Book #26 of 2016: Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle #3) I really enjoy this series, but this particular book felt less complete than the others somehow. (Perhaps because the next one to come out is going to be the last, so Blue Lily, Lily Blue had to do too much …
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Movie Review: My Fellow Americans (1996)
Movie #6 of 2016: My Fellow Americans (1996) This is one of those movies that my family watches ALL THE TIME. (Or at least, we did back when I was growing up. It’d been several years since the last time I saw it, though.) And as such, we quote it all the time. But my …
Book Review: Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
Book #25 of 2016: Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis #2) I feel like I still don’t really get this series, which is somewhat less than ideal given that I’m now two-thirds of the way through it. Butler does a good job of making her aliens, well, alien, but more often than not that …
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Book Review: Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Book #24 of 2016: Pet Sematary by Stephen King Pet Sematary is probably the quintessential example of a Stephen King novel with a great, moody build-up throughout the book and then a letdown of an ending. This makes sense, in a way: Pet Sematary is a loose retelling of the short story The Monkey’s Paw, …
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