Addendum, and a casting spoiler, I guess

What I forgot to say about The Girl with All the Gifts, besides that it was vibrantly written and well paced and had beautiful f/f touch/avoidance kink and a perfect ending, is that it felt like 28 Days Later crossed with Auburn's SGA fic The Taste of Apples. I hadn't quite realized it was a horror novel that shouldn't be read before bed, but I really enjoyed it.

The only real trouble I had was that I kept picturing Melanie as black, not white & blonde. I choose to blame Octavia Butler's Fledgling, heh. The children's condition and many of the adults' attitudes toward them worked so well as a metaphor for racial minority and underclass that the occasional reminder of Melanie's whiteness startled. And so I was thrilled to learn last night when Mr. deelaundry pointed me to the movie trailer -- I hadn't realized the film adaptation was so far along already! -- that they've cast a black actress, Sennia Nanua, to play her. Well done, moviemakers!

Movies & TV watched, Apr 28-Jul 4

Continued from here.

( 37 movies, 13 of them for vidding )

TV:

1. The Expanse S1 ♥
2. Grantchester S2 ♥
3. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries S3
4. Unlikely Animal Friends S2
5. Game of Thrones S6 ♥
6. *Olympic trials (ongoing)

Happy to talk about any of these, such as the Scorpius-Borg hybrid villain or jigging robots from Lord of the Dance or Vincent Cassel in a corset from Brotherhood of the Wolf.