The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Oz, #7)

One of the better Oz books, some good characters and some interesting stuff happens, although as usual the problem is solved without any real input by the protagonist, but that's just how these book are.

The Count of Monte Cristo

This book is really good. About a third of the way through it jumps ahead a bit and you feel like you're supposed to recognise some old characters with new names, and I thought I was going to have to go look some stuff up to keep up, but just keep reading because it all comes together really well.

My only real complaint is that I would quite like to know a bit more about what happened to some of the characters, specifically Baron Danglars, Eugénie Danglars, Louise d'Armilly and Albert de Morcerf after the book ends, but that's OK.

My favourite character though is Château-Renaud, just because he keeps showing up all the time and never does anything. He's always there just so some of the more involved characters have an extra person to speak to, but he doesn't influence the plot at all and nothing happens to him, he just carries on unaffected the whole time. He's great.

Home: A Uniquely Horrible Adventure in Tedium

Home is sort of a game in that you have to press keys to make things happen on the screen, but there's really no challenge or much interactivity to it. It basically seems to bill itself as a game because if it were a short film it would be way too obvious how shitty the story is. Spoiler alert from this point on.

Chronicle

Chronicle is a movie about three teenagers who discover a mysterious thing that gives them the power of telekinesis. They soon discover that they can do some pretty impressive stuff with it, including flying and moving very heavy things.