I'm also reading the ToB contenders. While I thought A Little Life was really good, I preferred The People in the Trees. I'm currently in the middle of The Tsar of Love and Techno.

I did the same. I'm currently reading The Bone Clocks and The Paying Guests.

I'm currently reading it, so I'll avoid the spoilers. But it's nice to know that there are fans and appreciators of the book.

No. But I think Hannah's problem is that she doesn't stick to things, at least when it comes to her professional life. If something at work/grad school doesn't meet her expectations, she bails. She could end up being a good teacher, but I doubt she'll get over the initial hump of it being bad and/or difficult.

Mike Epps, actually. A much better choice than Cannon, but I'm still skeptical.

I think the police force is a great place for Matt to end up, especially since his last storyline with Tripp supports that move. But it is so clearly not the place for Tyler. I want Tyler to channel the energy he spent on protecting Liv into something else. Run for mayor and create Icetown. Reconstitute the surviving…

Also because there was no Enzo.

This week, in Elena Is The Worst: I've got nothing this week. Elena was actually awesome. "You're actually listening to Damon?" made me laugh so hard. Maybe her calling is as a grief counselor, because she was just fantastic. I still got a little satisfaction from her neck snap though. Mostly because of her past…

I think Lucious cares about Anika, but his love for Cookie runs deeper. He definitely used her to get her dad to sign off on his health for the IPO, but I don't think that is his sole reason for being with her. I do agree that having a flashback to the beginning of their relationship would be a good idea.

Yes! All I could think watching that scene was that someone on the writing staff reads Saga.

I don't hate Steroline, but I definitely felt like the show was trying to manipulate the viewers with that kiss in the sunlight. I hated that.

This Week, in Elena Is The Worst: Actually, she wasn't. She admitted that she was an awful sister to Jeremy and bonded with him a little before he left.

They definitely could have replaced all of the Enzo/Matt scenes with scenes of Bonnie on the road jamming to '90s hits. It would have been so much better.

This week, in Elena Is The Worst: She leaves her brother with a murderous sociopath to insert herself into Bamon's emotional space created by their suicide pact. Because Damon can't be left alone for a second to actually experience and process his feelings about Bonnie and her predicament. It has to be about how Elena…

She's in an Amazon pilot with Leslie Bibb called Salem Rogers: Model of the Year 1998.

I agree that Luke didn't have much personality. I don't think there will be a personality shift so much as a new inconsistency present in Kai's actions. Up until this point, Kai has been predictably evil, always making the move most likely to undermine the intrepid band of vamps, witches, and Matt. I can see Kai…

Lucious hasn't made a direct reference, so it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't know about the diagnosis. But I'm sure he knows something is off, which is why he's even seriously considering Hakeem as his successor. He even asked Andre what was wrong when it appeared he was having an episode earlier this season.

Gaeta was bisexual.

I think they get to that point about Lucious not being in-tune with the terrible session he had with Hakeem. Yes, Hakeem is a brat and behaved horribly, but the song Lucious wrote was comically bad. Also, the fact that Jamal was the one to fix it points to him being a contender. Cookie provides the personality and…

I'm hoping that Luke will be used to mess with Kai going forward, interfering with his plans a bit by throwing a wrench in his psychopathic nature. At this point, Kai is too powerful to be stopped. Since the gang couldn't manage to beat him before the merge, I don't see it happening without some sort of internal…