I’ve been thinking a lot about my 2011 resolutions as you do at this time of the year. I got a surprising number of them done and in the bag, including “get pregnant.” However, unlike every year since 2005, I won’t be calling this my best year ever. Mainly, because I didn’t stay pregnant. Twice. [...]

Oh my gosh, guess what we just sent out to all our FaN bloggers. That’s right, the end-of-the-year survey. You know I’m just crazy about our bi-annual BOOK WEEKs, but my second favorite two weeks of the FaN season is when we take time out to round up our favorite and least favorite books, movies, [...]

Le sigh. I wanted to love HAPPY FEET 2. I truly enjoyed the first one, and this sequel pretty much had me at baby penguins singing “Mama Said Knock You Out.” However, three things derailed that enjoyment: 1) The super-violent Warner Bros. Sylvester and Tweety short that ran before the movie. It made me realize how much [...]

I know, I know: “What the eff, Ernessa? Why no book reports since the summer?” All I can say is that things got just ridiculously busy, but I do fully intend to get my full 52 reports in by the end of the year. I’ve actually been reading tons to the point that I’m going [...]

I know I said that I wasn’t going to cover new cable shows this Fall, and for the most part I haven’t — though, I’ve heard AMERICAN HORROR STORY is okay to good — but still missing DEADWOOD as I do, I had to give this new AMC show, HELL ON WHEELS at least one [...]

It occurs to me that I haven’t given a golden DVR ticket to any male-led shows all season. How bizarre. Well, this weekend I had the chance to correct that with the premieres of GRIMM and ALLEN GREGORY. Did they make it on to my DVR? Let’s find out! Overview GRIMM: An NYC detective discovers [...]

I tend to be a little leery of fraternal twins when it comes to Fall TV. For example it took me a whole year to give ER a chance because it premiered at the same time as CHICAGO HOPE. I actually ended up liking both shows — I even watched ER faithfully until its season [...]

I’ve spoken a lot about book thrall on this blog, but I think I’ve yet to talk about book grief, which is strange because book grief and book thrall go hand and hand. My definition: Book Grief is when you remain bummed for days that a book is over. You mourn the end of the [...]

So, REAL STEEL is interesting, in that it seems to have had a somewhat polarizing effect on couples. You either really wanted to see it (me) or really didn’t want to see it (CH). At the same time, it’s not like, say MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, a movie, which you’d be perfectly content to watch alone. [...]

Yesterday I got home and watched three shows, none of which will be added to my queue. So let’s discuss WHITNEY, A GIFTED MAN, and PAN AM … with a bunch of sighing: Overview WHITNEY: An anti-marriage photographer navigates her three-year relationship with a nice guy who owns an internet company. Their friends include a [...]