Handmaid’s Tale for me too, but only because it was a special deal for Kindle readers. Also Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War” series -- and Josephine Tey’s “Daughter of Time” -- books I’d heard about for years but didn’t read until they showed up as Kindle deals.

Dubliners by Joyce. Don’t be intimidated by who wrote it. It’s perfectly accessible in fact moreso than other contemprorary works. It’s among the earliest literature with a decidedly modern tone.

I have the opposite opinion on this topic you have identified.

Season 1 of Jessica Jones had its problems, and I liked The Punisher more than I expected, but I think Jessica Jones is the best of the Netflix Marvel characters, and I’m pumped for season 2. 

Man, I remember that show. There was an episode where both sides fought over who got to take control of the massive brontosaurus.

I always heard either “breezy” or “blue skies” used to describe USA’s old programming.

I was a big fan, nice having shows that are fun and light.

Yes, for all the artistry behind Manhattan, it is a rather sour and highly misogynistic film, even by Allen standards (with the caveat that he can, on occasion, write very well for women, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Dianne Weist’s character in particular, being a prime example of where he does seem to display an…

He changed it back! Or at least they were saying that...

🎵Most folk will never write a book

The press has vetted the Franken allegations the same way they’ve vetted any of the other recent allegations of harassment and abuse—by interviewing friends and acquaintances who say the accuser told them about the incident years ago. In one case, the accuser’s confidants included one of the Huffington Post reporters…

Yeah, thanks to Obama! Go, Obama!

If I’m a guy in WWI and a superhuman woman in a cool costume shows up to fight on my side, I’m also probably cool with it (not that there would be much of an option). I mean, probably. It’s theoretical.

I’m glad someone else appreciates Dril! the comment section is grumbly lately and not even in a fun ironic way (or a sad way.) Just an old-man-yells-at-cloud way, to use the site’s parlance.

I KNOW, THAT’S WHY I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!! IT DOESN’T NEED TO CALL OUT REFERENCES TO SHOW IT’S NERD CRED! IT’S LIKE ROCK AND THE KARATE KID AND FERRIS BEULER AND SAY ANYTHING AND THE CARE BEARS AND POUND PUPPIES!!!

Older women, like older men, can still write with great precision about emotional experiences that many of us, menopausal or not, share. And, compared to lot of contemporary short-story writers, Munro writes very interesting plots, which is why the experience of reading her twenty-page stories often feels like reading…