The Week In Entertainment

DVD: Some more of The Murdoch Mysteries, and also a couple of Campion episodes.

TV: Caught up on Doctor Who (I must say, I like it when there are two companions, and also I like it that Amy has seen past the fascination of the Doctor; one of the many things I loved about Donna Noble was that she wasn't in love with him). "The graves round here eat people" ... that's a spooky line. And not addressed yet...

Read: A brilliant thriller called Black Water Rising by Attica Locke, which uses its genre to look at two moments in the civil rights movement - the fiery 60s and the early 80s, when the results of the 60s were making themselves known in often unanticipated ways. This book is really good. Also I picked up Kindle editions of a couple of the books the Murdoch TV series is based on. They're good, too, though (of course) rather different from the show, which is lighter, more procedural, and features a strong woman as a regular, which the books (probably truer to the time) do not. They're darker explorations of the seamy side the late 1900s, not grim or explicit but darker than a show that features Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Nikola Tesla ... both good stuff.