Category Archives: reviews

Mad Men Season 4: Don Draper, Tragic Hero

This is the best sea­son of Mad Men yet. Episode 7 was absolutely shat­ter­ing, in all the best ways. Watch­ing the char­ac­ters pick up the pieces and go on with their lives after this should pro­vide fas­ci­nat­ing and incred­i­bly poignant moments for the rest of the sea­son, and indeed the rest of the series. I …

7 September 2010 – 1:53 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in reviews, tv | Tagged | Comments (0)

An Open Letter to the Producers of LOST

Dear Damon Lin­de­lof and Carl­ton Cuse: I have been a LOST fan  —  devo­tee, even!  —  ever since the sum­mer after Sea­son 1, when I devoured the whole sea­son on DVD over the course of about 48 hours. Elec­tro­mag­net­ism? I’m there! Time travel? Bring it on! Alter­nate real­i­ties? Excel­lent! For the five sea­sons since then, I have watched every episode the …

13 April 2010 – 10:58 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in rants, reviews, tv | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Review: N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

I’m not gonna lie: I picked up this book because of the cover. I was wan­der­ing through the library and it was fac­ing out on a shelf of new fic­tion. The col­ors caught my eye, and then I looked more closely at it and thought, “AWESOME, a woman of color is the hero­ine!” And, after fin­ish­ing …

3 April 2010 – 3:40 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in books, reviews | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles: Book 2, Queens’ Play

I don’t know what it is about Queens’ Play that makes it impos­si­ble for me to fin­ish. Every other book in the series is com­pul­sively read­able, but Queens’ Play just bogs down for me every time. It’s not Thady Boy Bal­lagh, because I always put the book down after that sec­tion  —  although, now that I think …

26 March 2010 – 3:39 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in books, reviews | Tagged , , | Comments (2)