October 2009
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Random Thoughts for The Sunday Salon, Oct. 25th
My second Read-a-Thon has come and gone. In my first read-a-thon I was a reader and this time a cheerleader. I feel guilty that I didn’t make it around to all the readers that were participating. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to start cheering until 6pm yesterday and I crashed earlier than I thought I would. [...]
Read-A-Thon and NaNoWriMo
The Read-A-Thon starts at 8am tomorrow (Saturday) morning. I’ll be in classes most of the day, but I’ll be cheerleading starting around 7pm. I’m looking forward to stopping by as many blogs as I can while I can. Not sure how long I’ll be up tomorrow night but I hope to get around to a [...]
TV Shows – Week of October 19th
NCIS [7x05 - "Code of Conduct"] – After two bad episodes NCIS managed to surprise me with a good one. Everyone acted professionally and in character. And the Halloween plot was fun this time.
NCIS: Los Angeles [1x05 - "Killshot"] – on the other hand I was disappointed with NCIS:LA. The plot was boring as were [...]
"I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir" by Jennifer Finney Boylan
“I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir” by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780767921756
Number of Pages: 288
I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted is a memoir about growing up in a haunted house, and an exploration of what it means to be “haunted.” It was published by Doubleday/Broadway in January 2008, and [...]
TV Shows Watched, Week of October 11, 2009
NCIS [7x04 - "Good Cop, Bad Cop"] – Ended up finding this episode boring. I’m not convinced it was necessary to know what had happened. Also the characters just seemed off in this episode. I’m not really sure why but no one felt familiar… (I think I’m just bored with the characters, and tired of [...]
How about we listen instead of telling people to shut up?
The science fiction genre is very white male dominated and it’s not a surprise that many anthologies are filled with primarily white male authors. It’s the way it’s been for years. And the truth of it is, it’s not going to change unless people protest. As long as white males have power and privilege they [...]
Fringe 2×04 – "Momentum Deferred" a 2nd Look
I decided to watch the episode from last night again to see how much I missed because I let my annoyance with the idiot plot distract me. After watching again I’m still rather annoyed and in fact there are probably more things that bugged me this time around. On the other hand I did pick [...]
TV Show Comments: (NCIS, NCIS:LA, FlashForward, Fringe)
I have to admit to being rather disappointed with my shows this week, though only two shows really bothered me – NCIS and Fringe; the others were just weak episodes. I’ll put it all under a cut for spoilers (mostly for Fringe and NCIS).
It's Read-a-Thon Time Again
What is the 24 Hour Read-a-thon?
It’s sort of a reading challenge, only everyone participates at the same time. For 24 hours, we read books, post in our blogs about our reading, and visit other readers’ blogs. We also participate in mini-challenges throughout the day.
The Read-a-Thon challenge is happening again and this time I’ll be participating [...]
TSS: Catching up on Books Read & TV Shows Watched
Before I get into the actual commentaries, I wanted to welcome my brother to my blog. I ended up showing him my previous post (“Learning to Pay Attention to the Stereotypes“) because he wanted to know why I wasn’t watching Stargate Universe. Now I’m trying to get him to do at lest one guest post [...]
