I'm getting into it, but I didn't realize how… dense his fiction would be at times. I've only read Consider the Lobster, and that was years ago, so I'm both readjusting to his style or getting used to his fictional prose.

On the nonfiction front, still working my way alternately between Rick Perstein's Before the Storm, Andrew Roberts' Napoleon: A Life. Also listening to the audiobooks of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything and Nick Cave's The Sick Bag Song.

I also just listened to the Stiff audiobook. That was the first of Roach's books that I "read" but audiobooks seem like a good way to go with hers.

I'm with you on this, but considering that the What Are You Reading This Month column gets two, maybe three entries from the staff, book coverage seems more likely to get axed than expanded.

That was the first Price book I've read, but Clockers seems to be the consensus.

Just finished Richard Price's Lush Life. Currently reading Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad, Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, and The Stories of John Cheever.

Glad to hear it. I plan on starting that soon myself.

Any idea when that episode was?

I'm allergic to cats, but could have done all of that with no worse a reaction than itchy eyes and maybe some coughing. Having cat allergies doesn't mean always momentary contact will result in hospitalization, but it still could mean living with one is out of the question.

That's exactly where I stopped with the show. Lovitz may be very good in the show, but I just can't imagine the show without Hartman.

I agree that Cleganebowl, if it happens, won't be part of Cersei's trial-by-combat, but will come later.

I was also assuming that she'd run into Theon and he'd help her, but the reviewer thinks that Theon is in Volantis, not Braavos.

Is that a good Murakami book to start with? He's near the top of my list of author's I need to read but I haven't made the plunge yet.

I'm sure you'd really like it if we all Gave Up on making these puns.

"People underestimate Bob at their own peril."

Agreed on Rylance. He's everything I wanted for Cromwell after reading the novels.

A good number of them have been hired by MTV News but I have no idea what they've been doing there (looking at you, Brian Phillips and Alex Pappademas).

Mogwai, PJ Harvey, Frightened Rabbit, Explosions in the Sky, Tim Hecker, The Field, Deftones, M83, and more? Lookin' good, April!

I recently read Power of the Dog as well, and yeah, that was intense.

Me too! I always thought the book was missing a chapter on the Meat Puppets.