I only buy reference books now and everything else from the library. It took me a year to read Ulysses by James Joyce. I just kept renewing, then ordering another one when I was out. It worked out well for me, I needed breaks anyway and I didn't have another book that I didn't like to add to the house clutter.

Your description of the guy in the footnotes makes me think I might not want to read it after all. I'm already somewhat wary of it being all trick and no substance.

Slowly getting time and brains back after having the baby and spending more time reading as a result. I am however perpetually behind on "What Are You Reading". Maybe someday! (the rallying cry of parents of small children). I ran right through the second book in the Ancillary series by Ann Leckie and I loved it.…

This movie is incredibly boring for being so strange. It's the only movie I've ever fallen asleep watching and I even enjoy slowly paced movies.

I'm actually relieved that there won't be Cleganebowl, it just seemed like nonsensical fan service.

Also, animal markets that took place inside the city required herds to be driven through city streets, so more animal manure there. Imagine sharing the road with all those animals. They would sometimes run off and get loose inside buildings.

I feel a great amount of sympathy for her now that I'm a parent myself. I understand having ideas about what you will do and then the overwhelming emotions of being a parent and being gobsmacked by the reality of it. Is she arrogant? Oh yes, no doubt about it but all they all are, just in this episode review it was…

Reviewing the show they want rather than what the show is…..is exactly my second biggest frustration with the reviewing on this site.

That's not normally the type of joke I go for but I loved the way the actor sold it.

He was worse. Which is why I don't understand why so many book readers whine so much about him.

The baby on Penny Dreadful looked like it was probably dead already. No crying or movement. The only reason I could watch that scene was that the baby looked like a doll and it was very brief. I ran out of the room in anticipation of what Ramsay was going to do.

We have a newborn also and as soon as Ramsey summoned Walda and baby I ran out of the room. I sat with my hands over my ears until husband called me back when it was over. I just couldn't even handle watching the baby being threatened with violence, but I knew what was about to happen even if I didn't know the method.…

I haven't been reading much lately since we have a newborn to keep us from getting much sleep and I'm too tired most of the time for it. I did just finish Alive, Alive,Oh! by Diana Athill which was very interesting. It's a series of short memoir stories and since she is in her late 90's it is interesting to read the…

Remember that sex was really dangerous back then, especially for women. You could get pregnant and die, you could get diseased and die, you could get found out and shunned/isolated/abandoned, you could be raped (remember this is a time when there was no counter narrative to "she asked for it"). Not to mention the…

According to Wiki you are correct. I liked the episode, although what I liked about the episode had little to do with the Lone Gunmen. I will admit though that in small doses and with the right kind of writing they can be mildly entertaining.

Mulder's behavior makes sense to me. He reminds me of any number of people I know in real life that are disparaging of religious beliefs yet are just as likely to buy into conspiracies that fit into their personal narratives. Like aliens. Todd's review sounds like something Mulder himself would write. People who have…

I'm also an outlier in that I really enjoyed this episode. I generally enjoy religious mysticism though and my non-belief in Christianity doesn't prevent me from being able to connect with the themes. I certainly don't find an episode like this any harder to swallow than the alien conspiracy ones.

REAMDE was my least favorite too. Part of it was that as a former MMORPGer, I thought the game sounded TERRIBLE. But I didn't much like any of the characters or the plot either. I think I'm getting pretty tired of his everything and the kitchen sink action pieces. I also feel like his female characters are all too…

This episode was pretty rote, but well enough executed. The actress that played the mother sold her panic pretty well for me. I especially liked the Mulder and Scully role reversal comedy. Sure it didn't make much contextual sense but I've come to realize that I really enjoy Duchovny and Anderson for their comedic…

Worst X-Files episode? not by far. I found it entertaining. But of course at this point I've come to realize that I almost completely disagree with Todd on the good and bad episodes. The main teenage character was very grating but I enjoyed the Psycho type feel of the episode. But I find the idea of therapists messing…