This Week in Entertainment

(Oops. The holiday distracted me - this post is backdated.)

DVD: Over the Hedge - which was quite cute and funny, actually.

TV: The usual - Heroes (I'm sorry, we didn't get the promise 'how they got their powers', we just saw them, well some of them, using them for the first time. But Sylar's crazy, isn't he?) and Veronica Mars (she's going to break Logan's poor heart again - as Couch Baron says: "Logan looks like his heart is breaking into teeny-tiny pieces. At some point, they're going to get too small to reconstitute.")

Read: The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl - atmospheric, idiosyncratic, with well-drawn main characters, but ultimately, I felt, not satisfying; the killer's motive was a cop-out and the resolution quite ... well, not as bad as "Holmes woke up and lo, it had all been a dream" but almost that bad. Also Mrs Malory and a Death in the Family, a solid entry in this slight but well-written series; Who's Sorry Now?, the least satisfactory so far in this generally entertaining but slight series; and The Shapeshifter, not Hillerman's best but engaging nonetheless. Also, finished Trinities which is simply lovely.