Sarah Connor Chronicles 1x05 Queen's Gambit

So, I wasn't going to post on this more but there is so much! Or, in which I take a metaphor and beat it to the ground:

( Spoilers have great arms )

Whee! I have a show that's actually airing on US TV!

Dal Ja's Spring, ep. 09-13

Even though I now have an all-purpose dramas icon (I really need one for TV too), I had to make a Dal Ja's Spring specific one because I heart them so much!

I alternately want to binge on these or spread them out, since each episode leaves me in such a good mood that I want it to never end.

I adore Tae Bong, who's just awesome and knows the value of waiting, not pressuring.

Though I continue to have some gender issues, particularly in the realm of female competition and jealousy, I love that the show has so many women and so many and so many varied female relationships.

( Spoilers )

Valente, Catherynne M. - The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (spoilers)

I finished the first book a little less than a week ago, and amazingly, I still remember a good deal of it (for my personal values of "good deal;" i.e. I could recall more than just the main characters' names).

Much like Kate mentions in her review (link below), I think I enjoyed reading the first book the most for the thrill of discovery and surprise. I was never quite as startled by the other three as I was by the third, though my delight in the language and the worldbuilding and the characters and Valente's takes on race and gender and fairy tales and stories and everything never waned.

Pretty much everything I wrote about the first book applies to this as well, so I will use this as my giant spoiler post.

( Book-destroying spoilers )

And I should say more or think more, except I am just sad to not be in that world any longer.

Links:
- kate_nepveu's review (both books, no spoilers)
- meganbmoore's review (spoilers)
- minnow1212's review