yuletide recs

By no means a complete list, but here's eight recs from my reading so far, in order of reading:

( Temeraire, Jumper, Sense & Sensibility, Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording, The Breakfast Club, The Losers, Sports Night )

seriously, sickness and HBO. it's a trend.

When I finally saw the 2011 Jane Eyre a few weeks ago, it reminded me of how awesome Mia Wasikowska is, so I ended up re-downloading all of the Sophie episodes of In Treatment (which is a fantastic show; damn fine acting and writing across the board). I watched the first season proper back in 2008, so I felt I could get away with just watching one character's sessions.

Anyway, I just watched all of said episodes back to back, and damn, I'd forgotten how fucking phenomenal she is. I think she was, what, 19 at the time? And it's even more impressive now that I've seen her in other things; she played a sixteen-year-old Olympic-hopeful gymnast to the hilt, and just as impeccably as she played a 19th-century orphaned Scottish governess.

NGL, I cried a lot this time through. Sophie is such a brilliant character.