Justine suffers from near-incapacitating hypochondriac whose mother died from a rare disease everyone refused to believe she had. Damn good reason to have health anxieties, I say. She struggles through each day as if it’s her last in case that elusive vein will explode in her brain. But living on edge is almost too much for her hunky, yet simple-minded boyfriend, Cubby. That is until she meets Packard, a mysterious Turkish restaurant owner, who says he can save her hypochondriac self-implosion. Justine (and myself!) is skeptical to say the […]
#10 Sci Fi from months ago, but has still stuck around
Many months ago I read this, and it still has stuck in my head so it must be great, right? I started a classic series in the genre: Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Having read The Caves of Steel the month before I knew that I enjoyed Asimov’s writing style, so it was time to start his opus. This is the first in the Foundation series. It is loosely modeled after the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, of which I’ll be honest I don’t […]
An excellent continuation of the new Doctor Who comics series
(This post originally appeared on Glorified Love Letters.) Talking about individual comics issues is somewhat difficult, for one does not want to spoil the story. However, let me continue to encourage you to look into the two new Doctor Who comics runs for both the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors with this brief look. (For a basic background, do check out my thoughts on the first issues for both Doctors here.) The Tenth Doctor and Gabriela are still fighting a strange creature in New York that has […]
Such outstanding first issues that I am already itching for the collected volume
(This post originally appeared on Glorified Love Letters.) Lately I’ve been dipping into the world of Doctor Who comics with both the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, but today I’ve read the brand new releases from Titan Comics:Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #1 and Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #1, which are such outstanding first issues that I am already itching for the collected volume. The Tenth Doctor’s first issue takes place some time after he has left Donna, but before Waters of Mars. Interestingly, he […]
“It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did.”
I picked this up because of thewheelbarrow’s review, and I was not disappointed. Great writing, great story, great characters, great fun. I proctored a civil service exam last weekend, which basically meant I sat and read for five hours, with occasional breaks to glance up and look intimidatingly at potential cheaters, and then I just wanted to go home and read MORE. Detective Miller is well on his way to being washed up. You’ve seen his type before: rumpled, drunk, rarely putting 100% into any […]
Scully wrote a book!
Let’s just get this first thing out in the open. For the rest of her life, Gillian Anderson will always first and foremost be Special Agent Dana Scully, FBI. And just so we’re clear, there are definitely worse things she could be associated with. I was totally batshit obsessed with The X-Files back in the day. Like, ad-hoarding-under-the-bed, fanfic-reading, thinking-about-it-all-the-time, staying-up-until-3-AM-on-school-nights-to-watch-re-runs-obsessed*. It was My Show. So, as a caveat for the rest of this review, that lingering love for GA and her X-Files days is […]
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