TV #27 of 2022: Killing Eve, season 4 I gave the first year of this show four-out-of-five stars, even while worrying how the writing “seems to revel in ambiguity, throwing out potential explanations and character motivations at times but seldom following through to confirm or reject exactly why anything is happening. As a result, much …
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TV Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife, season 1
TV #26 of 2022: The Time Traveler’s Wife, season 1 I remember enjoying the original novel that this miniseries is based on, but I read it way back in early 2016, so I can’t comment on specific adaptation choices in much depth. (I never saw the old movie with Rachel McAdams, either.) But six TV …
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Book Review: Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin
Book #97 of 2022: Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin There’s a great sci-fi premise to this novel — what if a company could erase unwanted memories so confidentially you wouldn’t even remember hiring them, and what if a lawsuit then forced them to contact their clients anyway and offer to reverse the process …
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Book Review: The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
Book #96 of 2022: The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes This YA novel occasionally slips into didactic exposition, but it is overall a sweet and heartfelt story of a sixteen-year-old gay Mexican-American girl navigating her first year at the predominantly-white Catholic school where she’s closeted but developing major feelings for a friend. …
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Book Review: They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
Book #95 of 2022: They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie This novel can’t decide whether it wants to be a spy thriller or a farce, two impulses which develop at cross purposes in my opinion. It’s very coincidence-heavy and full of frustrating implausibilities, beginning with the plucky heroine who falls in love with a …
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Book Review: The Deception by K. A. Applegate
Book #94 of 2022: The Deception by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #46) We’re in the Animorphs endgame now, as is perhaps best indicated by the numbering convention breaking down. For the first forty-five novels of the main series, the narrators followed a predictable loop, with Jake at the start of each cycle telling stories #1, …
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Movie Review: Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Movie #10 of 2022: Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) I don’t think this final TNG film is nearly the franchise-killer of its lowly reputation — it’s not even the worst Star Trek movie, frankly — but it’s not really a great time, either. Most of the cast is sidelined, which is fine for an hour of …
Book Review: Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Book #93 of 2022: Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid This 2013 debut is the fourth Taylor Jenkins Reid book that I’ve read, and the first one that hasn’t really wowed me. The premise is certainly designed to tug at heartstrings — a young woman is widowed not even two weeks into her marriage — …
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Book Review: The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Book #92 of 2022: The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas An underwhelming cross between Rebecca and The Haunting of Hill House, in which a recently-married woman finds her new home literally haunted by the malevolent spirit of her husband’s first wife. (The publisher’s blurb compares it to Mexican Gothic too, but that similarity is basically limited …
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TV Review: Star Trek: Voyager, season 4
TV #25 of 2022: Star Trek: Voyager, season 4 This is far and away the best run of the series yet, partly because the writers have gotten much of the early silliness out of their system as they determine what stories work well for the premise, but mostly because of the introduction of new main …
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