February Watched and Read

Watched:

We're totally obsessed with the weirdly hilarious and offbeat  Suburgatory. 

Heathers

Pump up the Volume

Grimm: Season Two

Bunheads

Side Effects: Jude Law was excellent in this. 

Warm Bodies: The kid from About a Boy is so cute now.
He just makes you go, "aw"

But as importantly we QUIT watching:

Glee

Last Man Standing

Vampire Diaries *sigh* after all these years!

FaceOff

And shows that are on the bubble

(in other words I'm thinking I might be done with them soon)

Dallas

Being Human

READ:

The first three books of Gallagher Girls series. They are simple, sweet YA novels where the girls are smart, fierce, independent and pretty normal - for spies. I passed them on to my 14YO son who is devouring them too. Note: these aren't edgy in the least.

Glory Season

The world is extremely well-developed and you can tell that an enormous amount of thought went into every detail.  That said, I wish Brin had held back on the description a bit as I found the endless descriptive pages (Life or the colored light wall come to mind) to be a little tedious.  The main character also gets knocked unconscious an awful lot. To the point where I felt like he had her get hit in the head every time a scene change was needed. ">What I loved was how you couldn't help but place yourself in the book and wonder what it would be like to live in that world, what kind of niche you would carve out for yourself, how would you handle the challenges faced.

Dreams of Joy:

I really loved this book. It as a wonderful continuation of the story of Pearl, May and Joy. Often brutal and heartbreaking, the vivid nature of the story telling transported me to China during The Great Leap Forward. One thing that struck me was how much the book felt like a retelling of Animal Farm using beloved characters in place of the animals. I mean that as a compliment.

">Note: This book could stand alone if a person hadn't read Shanghai Girls but you'd miss out on the transformation that Pearl goes through