Requiem for a Dream (I don't need that trauma)

Justice League (because it's boring and awful)

The text is clear that it is a mercy killing - but an *unintentional* one. They help him out of his glass cage and say they can help him hide, but he blows away in the wind "to their dismay". He disappears with a "sigh of the most profound and exhausted relief".

The Amber Spyglass. If I'm being sworn in I'm doing it on the book where children accidentally kill God.

A slightly different but related point is the fact that they are "bragging" about how much time and effort they put into this and it's like - did this save you anything over just paying real actors and slapping some CG over it? Going out of their way to make a worse product. It's bizarre.

I think this is very important. Being a parent a very very hard. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly prepare you for. And the lack of support structures and constant mental and physical burden of the many foibles of American society re: child care is a huge burden.

I haven't read these in 20+ years. I remember loving them as a kid. Do they hold up?

The Inheritance of Rome (history of Europe in the early Middle Ages). I'm a fan of, uh, fun and light reading obviously.

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I got halfway through the fourth book and for some reason got distracted and never went back. As some point I should do that...

The grasping, rotting hands of the damned in the underworld reaching up to drag the Earth to Hell? Certainly seems appropriate...

"How did she experience the sharp end of empire?" Ok Patrick I see what you did there. What an interesting choice for a first episode totally unrelated to the modern day...