Spoilers ahead…
Grimm, Friday 9:00 EST, NBC
Now Hank is in the Wesen loop, which had to happen at some point. It would have become too difficult for Nick to effectively do both of his jobs, which do bleed over into one another a lot, without Hank knowing the score. Are you glad he now knows? How do you think this will impact the show? Read More »
Every once in a while, I get sentimental. Could be the weather, time of year, or amount of alcohol consumed, but whatever the cause, I always end up skimming through one of my favorite novels. I might read just a paragraph or a chapter or I might lock myself in my bedroom and read the whole damn thing. The time spent with the novel isn’t the important part – the way I feel after I put it back on the shelf is.
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Thank you, Bitten by Books, for inviting me to blog, I look forward to chatting with everyone.
Today, I’m going to discuss, Animal Abuse and Storytelling, something that is close to my heart.
A friend invited me to visit her horse stabled at a place not far from where I lived in Yorktown. As a child we had horses and I’ve missed them during my adult years, so I jumped at the chance to see a smart four-legged ride. Read More »
True Blood, HBO
Watchers, a few weeks ago I stated that I found this season less satisfying and kind of uneven, but I must say that my attitude changed with the last three episodes, though there were a few aspects of those that still disturbed me.
First, up until the very last episode, I wasn’t really convinced of Bill’s big conversion. Where did it come from? Can it be explained by the nest behavior Pam referred to? I must say, though, that it was nice to see Eric as the reasonable one of the two. Read More »
I’ve talked and written about fear often on blogs for writers, but never to fans of reading, mostly because readers don’t think about fear as being a motivating factor in whether they like a book or not. But for me, fear is all about writing and reading and becoming enthralled with a story.
Normally, joy and fear don’t go together except for roller coaster rides and scary movies with buttered popcorn and cold colas. The movies and food, not the roller coaster and food. That would just be really messy. We’d never get the popcorn butter out of our hair.
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Because Romance is Healthy
Vampire and werewolf bites are not the only way to transform a romance reader’s life! My life was literally transformed by reading romance at a young age. I saw heroes in the pages of books I wasn’t seeing in real life, but it gave me a set of standards for my own hero down the road that helped me to end up with my very own wonderful “alpha at the end of a book.” Read More »
The Plots Thicken: the Return of Grimm and Mysteries Deepen on Warehouse 13
Grimm, Monday 10:00 EST, NBC
The welcome return of the show began with a replay of the last scene from the season one finale, where Nick’s mom shows up. Certainly Nick was as surprised as the rest of us to see her. There was some discussion here in the column after the finale, regarding how both Nick and his mom could be active Grimms at the same time. Given what his mom had to say about she went hunting with her father and her sister, Aunt Marie, it seems that there can indeed be more than one Grimm from the same bloodline at a time. Read More »
DISCLAIMER: I had no ideas for a column this week, so you get lovey dovey tripe and pictures of my son. Huzzah! Sing with me ! “We are (E-)Family! Einstein ain’t got shit on me!”
While sitting together on the couch, perusing our perspective Facebook pages – because the most romantic thing in the world for a couple to do is sit next to each other and e-stalk other people – I made the off-hand comment that I hadn’t met probably half my Facebook friends.
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Warehouse 13, Monday 9:00 EST, SyFy
The show came back strong, and two things I suspected turned out to be true. First, the team raced to find a way to turn back time to before the bomb in order to prevent the destruction of the warehouse. Second, we learned that Mrs. Frederic is indeed organically connected to the warehouse – a very interesting idea that I hope we hear more about later. Read More »
What if we had the power to bring back the dead? I’m not talking about zapping someone with defibrillators and restarting his or her heart. I mean really raise a corpse from the ground and give it a second chance at life.
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Censored? What the ***k!
Most authors will tell you, that nothing is more exciting than the release of a new novel. There’s that moment, when you wonder how well the rest of the world will receive your work, but, in general excitement is in the air. One can almost associate a writer with a parent, wondering about their child at such a time. Almost…
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So the hot topic around the web the last few days has been e-piracy. That’s a term that breaks every author’s heart. I thought about how I wanted to approach this post for a while. I took it to the web and had some amazing responses from authors and reviewers. The one thing that stood out to me was the complete sadness in everyone’s response.
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DISCLAIMER: I am as disgusted by the Stop GR Bullies shite as everyone else. I think the issue with that site is clouding the REAL problem, though.
DISCLAIMER #2: If you have no idea what I’m griping about, don’t feel bad. In fact, do a happy dance in the buff! My Twitter-feed has been inundated with nothing but information on this supposed war between reviewers and authors. It’s enough to make me twitch! Oh…wait…I already do…crap…
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Watchers, after five seasons of an admittedly very unique premise, the whimsical and wonderful Eureka ended its run. I know there was much consternation over much of the season leading up to the end, so I will address some of that kerfuffle first.
I will admit to being taken aback by the first episode of this season – up until the end when we saw that the Astraeus crew had been kidnapped and everything we had just seen in the episode was in the minds of the people hooked into a machine. I really thought that was pretty cool. Read More »
First off I would like to thank Bitten by Books for having me today.
Everyone has a dream in life, some want to be a doctor while others want to be a famous rock star. I never really knew what I wanted to be. I spent over thirty years going through the motions of life. I got married had a baby, got divorced, waitressed, met the man of my dreams, went back to school, Read More »
Watchers, this week we will discuss some of the movies in theaters this summer. There may be spoilers for the movies with titles in bold, so please be aware of this if you haven’t seen them yet but plan to. Also, please do not include any spoilers in your comments about any other movies not featured in the column, as there are some I haven’t seen yet.
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
This movie gives an alternate-history version of the life of Abraham Lincoln, and does so with great success, I think. As a child, Abe witnesses the death of his mother, though he doesn’t understand until much later the nature of the creature that killed her. Read More »
In addition to the crazy goings-on in Bon Temps, we will also check in with the denizens of Eureka and the fae community of Lost Girl.
True Blood, Sundays 9:00 EST, HBO
So, at long last the wild and wacky world of True Blood has returned to the screen. A lot has happened in just two weeks: vampire Tara (with Pam as her maker), Bill and Eric captured twice and rescued once (by Eric’s “sister,” a very loose term), Sam just barely escaping death at the hands of Marcus’ pack, and the political maneuvering of the Vampire Authority. Read More »
Grimm finale
The last few episodes leading up to the finale had been building up to Juliet and Hank learning more about the supernatural world and Nick’s involvement in it. By the finale, we know that Hank realizes he has been seeing things that he finds it hard to believe in, but he also noted in an earlier episode that Portland sure was getting weird. Do you think that he will learn the truth early in Season 2?
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**Beware spoilers – if you have not yet watched these finales but plan to, you probably don’t want to read any further…
Fringe, Friday 9:00 EST, Fox
The last few episodes of Fringe ranged from an unsettling look at an Observer-ruled 2036, to the bridge between the universes being closed, and finally, to a last-ditch effort on Walter’s part to solve an immediate problem.
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Watchers, I’m sorry for disappearing for a week. Technology issues caused me some problems. I am also behind on a few shows (the ones not discussed), but will be caught up for next week’s column.
Grimm, Friday 9:00 EST, NBC
First off, let me say that is sure seems as though Portland is full of vessen, doesn’t it?
In the last two episodes we have discovered that Grimms are valuable to the seven houses of Royals, which hasn’t really been explained yet, and have seen Nick really moving into his role, such as training physically and writing his own notes in the books in the trailer. Read More »
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