Looking at 2008...

[fajrdrako]

My choices of the best of 2008:

1. Best novel: Tie between Torchwood: Almost Prefect by James Goss and Finder's Keepers by Linnea Sinclair
   
2. Best non-fiction: Anything Goes by John Barrowman
   
3. Best movie: Mamma Mia! (And really difficult to choose between that and Quantum of Solace)
   
4. Best theatrical experience: The Music Man at the Stratford Festival. Second-best: seeing John Barrowman in person in How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
   
5. Best TV series: Doctor Who. (I actually prefer Torchwood, but I think Doctor Who is the better show, and I love both.)
   
6. Best moment in Doctor Who: When the Doctor snapped his fingers at the end of "The Forest of Trees", and the TARDIS doors opened.
   
7. Best Musical Discovery: My Chemical Romance
   
8. Best Music Vid: Leah and Maggie's Doctor Who vid to Flobot's "Handlebars"
   
9. Best Thing that Happened: Being so kindly helped by my friends when my ankle was broken.
   

Comments

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Jack just sent me this link to an essay about the Sandman series. I don't know if you've read it already, but if you haven't, give it a try. (The first paragraph is unreadable IMNSHO, but it improves rapidly after that.) I am sending it to you since you are the first person from whom I heard about the series.

http://grandhotelabyss.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/change-change-change-sandman-and-the-90s/

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks for the link.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Best Musical Discovery: My Chemical Romance

Seconded! Absolutely! Yay!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

But of course!

Grin.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

MCR are definitely counted among the good things of my 2008. The music, and just them, and Gerard, especially, and his crazy creative brain. So much love for them!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Great music, great lyrics, great style, great guys, great comic book... and lovely tea mug!

[filkferengi]

You've been partying with fairestcat again, haven't you? ;)

I saw Linnea Sinclair at the 2007 Nasfic on a panel talking about how to write P. I. characters. I've just recently gotten some of her books from the library. _Finders Keepers_ was lots of fun. Have you read _Games Of Command_ or _Down Home Zombie Blues_?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Have you read _Games Of Command_ or _Down Home Zombie Blues_?

Not yet, but I hope to soon.

[filkferengi]

They rock! _Wintertide_ reads like first fantasy novel, but still has several engaging characters.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

They all seem to be easy to find, too, which is good.