Even at it's worst (last season in general, the Walking in a Winter Wonderland sex scenes) it's still a really fun and enjoyable show and I always look watching it. I only wish I had a gang of friends to watch it and make catty comments with.

Not that the books are anything but the roughest outline for the show but the last book in the series is coming out in 2013. I wish that the show would get a closer to the series sometimes, not for the mystery angle but more for the continuity.

I don't think it's a bad thing for people to post if it helps them but I don't want to be held accountable socially for responding to their posts if I'm uncomfortable with it (i.e. that friend who gets annoyed that you don't immediately know what she's talking about when she posted it on FB three days prior.)

I remember a friend posting a bulletin on MySpace (remember those?) in 2005 when her mom died and being completely creeped out by it. It seemed so invasive and oversharing and made me feel weird.

I found out two of my best friends were pregnant because their husbands posted about it (one miscarried a week later and the other was wise enough to wait 3 months and let her husband plaster a sonogram up there.)

I had an acquaintance post about her miscarriage on Facebook but do so while sitting at a bar with me and a group of our friends. It made me feel really weird that she didn't say anything about it at the time though it was obviously on her mind.

Aww thanks. I don't want to hate on some of the frustrated people (whose comments I typically really enjoy here) but I'm bored by it too.

I created a new fake twitter but when I go out and try to convert to said fake twitter account, it's not working for me. However... I'm going to be reasonable and try again in a few hours.

I lived in Osaka for a year and a two hour train ride outside of the city put you in fairly dense forested areas. Outside of major cities, there is a decent amount of land.

I'm listening to it as an audiobook (I spend a few hours every week in my car going to my grandparents) which is making it less of a trial - the narrator is great at class=specific accents. However, the sections about the Napoleonic war are so boring I could cry. I get ready to give up on it but then I hit a really…

@Lassus @realwildchild They are both on my Goodreads TBR shelf now — I heard good things about the Night Circus but just haven't gotten there yet.

Will do as soon as I finish Jonathan Strange and Mr. How many more pages are in this lovely book that I'm so tired of oh just one more chapter. Or five.

Stephanie Meyers reminds me a lot of Poppy Z. Brite. I think they both have really amazing stories that they want to tell and are pretty damn creative except that neither one of them is a strong enough writer to pull off the scope and tone of what they want to say.

I felt the same way... "let's discuss it and then be happy."

Thank you. The Handmaid's Tale thanks you. Cat's Eye thanks you. Bodily Harm thanks you. Oryx and Crake thanks you. (I'm running out of Atwood titles that I've read and loved to thank you with.)

Yes please!

Exactly. No one ever died from titty fucking.

This is a good place where I have no funny rejoinder but would like +1 your comment a skillion times.

I grit my teeth and think "Different time/place/culture." If possible I mentally substitute an innocuous word for the offensive one (the homophobic f-word becomes "flapjack.") It makes the racism/homophobia seem almost quaint and lets me try and enjoy the book.

Well there are about 210 of them so I think they'll be busy for awhile if they use the really rare ones