I didn’t watch all the episodes in a row, but it was a close. I’m not really a comics person, but that has always been because of format, not content. I guess I prefer less pictures and more words. In a row. That said I’ve always loved superhero movies and anyone who knows me knows I enjoy the television adaptions as well. Arrow is my favorite show. That’s a long winded way of saying that I don’t know anything about the Daredevil mythology beyond the Ben Affleck movie. This show is much better than the movie.
Loved seeing how relationships between the characters developed. Thought they used the flashbacks very well to illuminate the characters. They do a great job interweaving the different characters and plot lines together. Cool references to the wider Marvel universe. The only reservation I had was I don’t love Matt as much as I love Oliver Queen and I wanted to. But I really really love Oliver Queen so that could be setting the bar too high given I’ve only seen half a season’s worth of episodes in comparison to Arrow.
I very highly recommend and am looking forward to future seasons.
I think I need to go back and read Insurgent again because the ending was really different than my friend and I remembered. That said I’ll be eager to see where they go from here in the third movie. And also, I remembered a few things only as they were happening. So I can’t really compare the book and movie at this point, but I really enjoyed the movie. I love the movie’s portrayal of the relationship between Tris and Four. Shailene Woodley gave another beautiful performance. Awesome special effects. Special mention of Keiynan Lonsdale who plays Uriah. Pleasure seeing him on my screen again! I loved him as Ollie in Dance Academy. Definitely worth seeing if you liked the books and/or the first movie.
Quick Take: Arrow’s Mid-Season Finale, “The Climb”
and continues with three more, most recent published this year. I don’t see any reason for the series to stop. It seems like it could keeping going for a while and I wouldn’t get tired of it. Jane Austen is a huge inspiration for the series, especially the first book. If you can imagine Jane Austen with magic, this might be what she wrote. Unlike the Regency romance novels found in the romance aisle, this series follows the same two main characters from the first book as they have more adventures. And adventures they have! This structure also gives the opportunity to deeply explore a marriage and some of the pressures on a marriage from the time period. I think the second book and the fourth book have been my favorites, but that’s just personal preference. They are all wonderful. Highly recommended.
Skin Game is the latest entry of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, and it was great. I couldn’t put it down! My immediate thought was I want to read it again, but of course I had to go to sleep. I only wish that I had read the last book again before reading this, because I found some of the details kind of fuzzy. Fans will love it, but it’s probably not the best place for a new reader to start. A heist caper filled with danger and Harry’s typical smart mouth quips, I also thought there were nice moments of emotional reflection. I spent some time considering where Butcher uses present tense for Harry’s voice. He’s masterful at it. Fun, suspenseful, with some heart-wrenching stuff. Highly recommended.
I picked this up as one of the few books, other than straight romance novels, that I could find at the library set in early nineteenth century England/Regency period. I found the book started off a little slow, especially as I got used to a more distant writing style/POV than I am used to, but it picked up and proved to be a fascinating might-have-been involving a French plot, Bow Street Runners and early submarine warfare. The details of the period were numerous and intricate. I appreciated getting a view of the grittier side of London during that time. Overall, a good read featuring a mysterious hero. Mature readers only.
by Patricia Wrede as part of my quest to read more books set in the Regency period, with the goal to get ideas of how to do things in my Dakotashi series. A very enjoyable fantasy, just the type of thing I was looking for. The characters were delightful. The authentic dialect was a little overwhelming. I’d like to add more of that kind of flavor to my dialogue without going too far.