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Over the past six weeks, Game of Thrones fans have endured some of the most stressful 80-minute episodes of television ever created. Visually, the season was stunning, the acting was stellar, and once again Ramin Djawadi proved he’s an international treasure we don’t deserve. But despite the visual effects, performances, epic score, and heart-pounding action, the overall consensus—based on the slew of articles, petitions, memes, and tweets—is disappointment. These last six episodes should’ve been the show’s finest hours, and yet they seem to have fallen short. Why? If writers take nothing else away from this final season, they should realize that audiences don’t want shock and awe they want human stories.
Read the rest of the article on LitReactor. Although commuting into NYC every day was taxing and often frustrating it did have its benefits: I was able to read a ton of books. Between the NJ Metro North and the Path, I was averaging a book a week—sometimes more. But since leaving St. Martin’s Press, my reading rate has dropped quite a bit (I’m down to about a book every two and half weeks). And while I felt cool being able to boast a book per week reading rate, I have to say, I’m enjoying this slowed pace. Now that I'm commuting less I have way more flexibility and time to focus my energy into creating, rather than just consuming.
But this still raises an important—and I’m sure controversial—question: How much should you be reading? |
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