Aww, that clip reminds me of my own recently departed Arabian so much. Not because we ever frolicked on the beach together, just because every day: "THE AIR. THE AIR IS TOUCHING ME. YOU'RE MAKING SOUNDS AND THE AIR IS TOUCHING ME - oh hey food. AAAHHH THAT LEAF JUST MOVED I HAVE TO RUN AROUND NOW I CAN'T DEAL WITH MY…

I'd never heard of The True Meaning of Smekday, but I thought the exact same thing reading that blurb. A title that generic could be about literally anything, and doesn't make me go, "Ooh, what's that about?" or "Oh, I remember hearing about that." Meanwhile, "The True Meaning of Smekday" kind of makes me want to…

I don't dislike her, but the character of Dahl was a pretty generic "badass chick" part (like, pretty much the same part Michelle Rodriguez plays in everything, in space), so I'm going to have disagree with her that there's anything to that character that merits a spinoff. Hell, they barely found enough for Riddick to…

This is trashy as fuck. And if it were two men trash-talking over a game and then throwing punches and jumping on each other, I'm sure we'd all be rolling our eyes and talking about how immature and typical "dumb fan" it was. Any grown person who behaves like this is a fucking embarrassment.

It makes me so oddly happy that Neville grew up to be hot. Like when the chubby kid from Stand By Me grew up to be Jerry O'Connell and marry Rebecca Romijin. You go chubby kid.

Yeah, that is true. She did live at the Chateau for quite a long time, and years ago I saw one of those gossip shows where they followed her on a shopping spree and she dropped a crazy amount of money in a matter of hours - a bunch of designer clothes and a $30,000 handbag. I know purses that cost as much as some…

This is amazing.

And on the other side of the coin, you could just as easily say that straight marriage is already worthless because from a straight-centric point of view anyone can already get a marriage - total strangers can go marry in five minutes in Vegas, people who don't even like each other can marry for money, platonic…

NOT THE DUCK

It's so strange to me that these guys who are obsessed with the idea of women taking their money also insist on marrying women with no jobs or skills who will be forced to be dependent on them and their money. If you're so worried about her picking your pocket, marry a woman who has money in her own pockets. Of course…

I wanted David Boreanaz, before losing my heart to Vin Diesel. Ah youth.

And you know, do we even need descriptions of attractiveness? One of my favorite female leads is Nora in Peter Straub's The Hellfire Club - she's a former nurse dealing with PTSD, marital problems and dissatisfaction with life in a yuppie town, and she gets kidnapped by a serial killer and ends up unraveling another…

Haha, that's so true, I'd forgotten about the inclusion of the inevitable orphan child!

In my experience the people who can't write decent female characters (or, like Alderman, cannot comprehend that there's no formula to writing a "strong woman") also tend to start pre-constrained by ideas of What Women Are Like. This might be because I know a lot of screenwriters who take a really paint-by-numbers…

I think his Matthew Corbett books, starting with Speaks the Nightbird, are some of his best work. Some of his earlier stuff is fun but a little Stephen King-lite, but Nightbird and its sequels really play to his strengths and find just the right mix of action, mystery, creepiness and humor, IMO.

I felt the same. It would have been fine as a novella in a short story collection, but super lightweight for a standalone novel IMO.

I felt like The Shining Girls and Life After Life were both really high on concept and really thin on execution.

Yeah, I saved this for my Boxing-Day-Read-in-Bed-Book and…I was a little disappointed, especially after waiting so long. I enjoyed the flashbacks, but I felt like it took a really long time to get going, the caper-y bits were kind of glossed over, and Sabetha didn't really click for me. I would have liked to see more…

Yeah Jennifer Lawrence, grow up and realize what an important service Fashion Police provides by calling everyone fat. Or something.

I think he looks pretty good. Look at that Keira Knightley lookalike checking him out. He could still get it.