Hey, here’s a post I drafted March 31 and never finished… Enjoy! HA!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Watching:<\/strong> In February, I watched (some re-, some fresh) all of Revenge<\/strong>. I figured out that I had only seen about 2.5 seasons originally. It got a little ridiculous (as those kind of shows do, especially once they start killing off characters) but I’ve been an Emily Van Camp fan since Everwood so I still enjoyed it. Now I’m rewatching White Collar<\/strong>. I mean you’ve got to find something to watch when all the current season shows go on what seems like the world’s most extended holiday break. I’m still loving Brooklyn 99<\/strong> but, about to share an unpopular opinion warning, I hate (HATE! HATE!) the Doug Judy episodes so every time I see one, I have to take a few weeks break from that show! Chicago Fire<\/strong> has been pretty intense the past few weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Reading<\/strong>: Since I last updated you (and the tournament began)<\/a>, I read another Rooster book “My Sister, the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite<\/strong>. It was a lot of fun… but it still really surprised me that it wound up winning the whole thing. It was definitely unique, but the characters were all a little flat–no one ever looked at things from more than one side, and the lack of true astonishment over the happenings within was a bit amazing. I guess for Korede this has been going on long enough since before the book started, that any feelings she may have had like that are already gone. I also read a really good middle-grade novel about the war in Iraq (“Sunrise Over Fallujah” by Walter Dean Myers<\/strong>), a good horror book for bookclub that I then forgot to go to (“Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson<\/strong>), a silly but sweet middle grades graphic novel (“Ghostopolis” by Doug TenNapel<\/strong>) and a stand-alone Laurie King<\/strong> novel “Lockdown” <\/strong>passed on by my mom. It had a LOT of interlocking threads but I thought it was really good and not as sick or nasty as some of her stand-alone books are (you may know her from her Mary Russell\/Sherlock Holmes series). I’m currently reading book 3 of Sabaa Tahir’s “Ember in the Ashes” series “A Reaper at the Gates”<\/strong>. It’s been out for a while so I’m not totally sure what’s taken me so long to get to it. I am not loving it as much as I loved books 1 and 2, though. I’m not sure if it’s due to distance in time, or Elias and Laia’s changed roles or what. It feels a tiny bit flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey, here’s a post I drafted March 31 and never finished… Enjoy! HA! Watching: In February, I watched (some re-, some fresh) all of Revenge. I figured out that I had only seen about 2.5 seasons originally. It got a … Continue reading