Well, I had a list all typed up and then a lovely, wonderful friend sent me an ARC of The Bone Clocks. This book is going to blow people away. Mitchell has such a prodigious imagination, I just can't even find the words to do it justice. Plus, it's so well written (the voice of Holly Sykes is unforgettable). I can't…

I don't agree that they need to commit to either/or. That's precisely its point: it's an attempt to meld the genre. We're seeing that in a lot of literature, lately, too.

I dunno. I think it's important to remember the genre they are attempting to recreate. The fact that they managed to insinuate deeper insight within a 19th century dimestore, commercialized platform a really fine start.

They presented them within a penny dreadful genre context in a shortened, eight episode series. I thought they juggled those elements really well. We get hit in the face with the gothic atmosphere while the actors conveyed those story arcs subtly within their performances. I certainly picked up on them. I like the way…

This writer seems to be missing all the main thematic points of the show, which I thought, for a series limited by only eight episodes, managed to develop quite well.

Stannis wouldn't have had anything to rescue were it not for the way Jon Snow rose to the occasion when the command was thrust upon him. Besides the big-picture conflict of Mance and the tribes vs. The Wall, that was the main thematic purpose of this battle: the evolution of Snow's character. He's the one who came up…

I don't read a lot of YA, but I picked up The Monstrumologist on a whim and was blown away by Yancey's writing. The whole trilogy is terrific and should be a modern classic (it truly transcends any age categorizing). Unfortunately, I guess it wasn't the hit the publisher expected (who actually nixed the last…