Book #89

"Checkmate" by Fae Sutherland

3 stars out of 5

For such a short story - just a handful of pages - it packed one helluva punch. Very, very creepy. But I so hoped it wouldn't end the way it did...

Of this and that

-- Today, I found You Higuri's "Taisho Era Chronicles" in my mail box. This is huge! You would have to understand just how much I love You Higuri's manga to get my reaction. She's a goddess among mangakas for me!

-- Still translating Tom Lloyd's "The Ragged Man", 4th in the "Twilight Reign" series - seriously, the book has 610 pages! - and as much as I love the characters, I sometimes feel like the author automatically expects his readers to know what's going on. It's like, he knows it and doesn't get that he has to, you know, WRITE IT DOWN, it's not enough that he as the author is privy to what's going on. Sheesh!

-- They plan a remake of Point Break? Why exactly? The movie was mediocre, only the presence of Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze made it good. Why remake it?! *head/desk*

-- NCIS & NCIS:LA season premiere promo: link. Pretty spoilery, if you ask me. But AWESOME! Tony!!!

-- "Producer Lauren Shuler Donner — the authority on the past, present and future of Fox's X-Men franchise as the producer of every one of the movies going back to X-Men in 2000 — has divulged to HitFix that things are looking "hopeful" for a First Class sequel, and that she wants Matthew Vaughn to return as director." Link. So, fingers and toes crossed, XMFC? Please? With a cherry on top?

-- I seriously adore Rob Dougan's song Clubbed to Death. It needed to be said.

Suits 109-112

Done with S1. ( Where I ramble about the show... )

To sum it up: it's a good show if you don't expect much. It's a funny summer flick but you have to ignore all the annoying bits and of those there are more and more as the show continues. In the end, I was really loving only Harvey and Donna, everybody else and their storylines irked the heck outta me at one point or another and more often than not, to be honest. Definitely not on par with White Collar's S1 but pretty equal to WhiCo's S3 - which I don't consider a high praise.