Following the enormous popular and critical success of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale (an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1986 novel), the likelihood that there would be a Season Two was a pretty good one. Media success doesn’t rest easily. As a result, the show’s second season (which is currently streaming on Hulu) is running off-book. It’s a pretty … Continue reading Going Off Book…A Handmaid’s Tale Season 2 If/Then…
Today, we bring you a blast from our past: a post that ran on this day in 2015, celebrating the birthday of Pac-Man, and offering you some books to read to celebrate! We hope you enjoy! Though there appears to be a bit of debate on the actual birthday of the classic video game, Pac-Man … Continue reading Eat all the food and avoid the ghosts….A Pac-Man themed If/Then
For those of you still having feelings about Superbowl LII…we see you, and we support you. For those of you good readers who watched the Superbowl for the commercials, it was a pretty decent showing, all in all. Particularly those Tide ads, that played heavily on genres, tropes, and gimmicks within familiar commercials. But for … Continue reading Westworld: An If/Then Reading List
It’s fairly safe to say that patrons at the South have been sufficiently woo’d by Outlander, both the TV series and the book series. What surprises me most is not the popularity of Outlander in general, but the wide-ranging reasons for it’s popularity. Patrons (and librarians) have exulted the complex romance, swooned over the historical aspects, … Continue reading A Saturdays @ the South IF/Then: Outlander Edition
As I mentioned a little while back, when I’m not hanging out with the books, I teach at A Local University. And, as it happens, all my students are obsessed (seriously…obsessed) with HBO’s Game of Thrones. To the point where we make Game of Thrones analogies in class to help them better understand the History of … Continue reading DRAGONS! A Game of Thrones If/Then Post
A bit of a warning: I really, really enjoy talking about Edgar Allan Poe. I find his work equal parts engaging, emotional, and genuinely skin-crawlingly creepy, and I find the man himself, in all his moody, tragic, cantankerous glory, throughly intriguing. My fascination only grew when, after writing yesterday’s post on Edgar and the Edgars, I saw this … Continue reading Still thinking about the Edgars…a mysterious If/Then post…
It’s that time of year again… Downton Abbey season is upon us. And while every season of this marvelous historic drama has been memorial, the knowledge that this is the final season makes every episode, every lingering glance, ever caustic put-down, and every jauntily-angled hat that much more meaningful. The season has already … Continue reading “We must always travel with hope”…A Downton Abbey Edition of If/Then