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Jun. 10th, 2013 07:18 pmI forgot to post this last week, so, two-for-one!
Week of May 27:
Television:
Scott and Bailey 3x02 - 3x06
Hannibal 1x09, "Trou Normand" and 1x10, "Buffet Froid"
Movies:
Clueless (I stopped by a friend's house while I was out for a walk to see if she was home, and in the course of things discovered that she had never seen Clueless. Thanks to Netflix, this was easily remedied.)
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (Maybe it's because I was biased by positive reviews from the flist, but I have to say I was quite charmed by the way this movie cheerfully does not give a fuck, and invites us to do the same. "You don't really care that the setting makes no sense whatsoever, do you? You're just here to see Hansel and Gretel kill the fuck out of some witches." Okay, movie. You win.)
Sleepaway Camp
Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers
Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland (I have my reasons.)
Books/Short Stories:
* Geekomancy, Michael R Underwood
* "San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats," Mira Grant (A short story set in the Newsflesh verse, during the time of the Rising. It's set at Comic-Con, so there are extra layers of geekhood and meta, and because of its length, there isn't time for some of the flaws I've complained about in the trilogy itself to show up. And everybody dies, which you already know if you've read the trilogy, so it's harder to grouse about all the female characters who get killed off. So instead I'll grouse about their deaths being so specifically showcased, because oh my god. It's a good story, though, with emotional impact that the trilogy tries for and doesn't always quite manage.)
* Hello, Cruel World, Kate Bornstein
* The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Titanic Tragedy, William Seil (YEP. Holmes and Watson on the Titanic. And this is not the weirdest Holmes pastiche I have read.)
* Séance for a Vampire, Fred Saberhagen (Dracula/Holmes crossover! Still not the weirdest Holmes pastiche I've read. It's actually not very weird at all, because this was always going to happen and I would be shocked if Saberhagen were the first to have done it. The honor of weirdest pastiche goes to Saberhagen's The Holmes-Dracula Files, to which this book is a sequel, because of the hilarious manner in which Saberhagen contrives to have Dracula and Holmes be actual, legit cousins. God, I love pastiches. And not just because they are basically professional fanfiction.)
* Stories from the anthology A Study in Sherlock: "You'd Better Go in Disguise," Alan Bradley; "As to 'An Exact Knowledge of London'," Tony Broadbent; "The Men with the Twisted Lips," SJ Rozan
Week of June 3:
Television:
Scott and Bailey 3x07 and 3x08
Books/Short Stories:
The rest of A Study in Sherlock, a short story anthology edited by Laurie King and Leslie S Klinger (A pretty decent collection; I only ended up getting bored and skipping two stories, which is better than I usually get with short story anthologies.)
Week of May 27:
Television:
Scott and Bailey 3x02 - 3x06
Hannibal 1x09, "Trou Normand" and 1x10, "Buffet Froid"
Movies:
Clueless (I stopped by a friend's house while I was out for a walk to see if she was home, and in the course of things discovered that she had never seen Clueless. Thanks to Netflix, this was easily remedied.)
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (Maybe it's because I was biased by positive reviews from the flist, but I have to say I was quite charmed by the way this movie cheerfully does not give a fuck, and invites us to do the same. "You don't really care that the setting makes no sense whatsoever, do you? You're just here to see Hansel and Gretel kill the fuck out of some witches." Okay, movie. You win.)
Sleepaway Camp
Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers
Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland (I have my reasons.)
Books/Short Stories:
* Geekomancy, Michael R Underwood
* "San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats," Mira Grant (A short story set in the Newsflesh verse, during the time of the Rising. It's set at Comic-Con, so there are extra layers of geekhood and meta, and because of its length, there isn't time for some of the flaws I've complained about in the trilogy itself to show up. And everybody dies, which you already know if you've read the trilogy, so it's harder to grouse about all the female characters who get killed off. So instead I'll grouse about their deaths being so specifically showcased, because oh my god. It's a good story, though, with emotional impact that the trilogy tries for and doesn't always quite manage.)
* Hello, Cruel World, Kate Bornstein
* The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Titanic Tragedy, William Seil (YEP. Holmes and Watson on the Titanic. And this is not the weirdest Holmes pastiche I have read.)
* Séance for a Vampire, Fred Saberhagen (Dracula/Holmes crossover! Still not the weirdest Holmes pastiche I've read. It's actually not very weird at all, because this was always going to happen and I would be shocked if Saberhagen were the first to have done it. The honor of weirdest pastiche goes to Saberhagen's The Holmes-Dracula Files, to which this book is a sequel, because of the hilarious manner in which Saberhagen contrives to have Dracula and Holmes be actual, legit cousins. God, I love pastiches. And not just because they are basically professional fanfiction.)
* Stories from the anthology A Study in Sherlock: "You'd Better Go in Disguise," Alan Bradley; "As to 'An Exact Knowledge of London'," Tony Broadbent; "The Men with the Twisted Lips," SJ Rozan
Week of June 3:
Television:
Scott and Bailey 3x07 and 3x08
Books/Short Stories:
The rest of A Study in Sherlock, a short story anthology edited by Laurie King and Leslie S Klinger (A pretty decent collection; I only ended up getting bored and skipping two stories, which is better than I usually get with short story anthologies.)