I like your blog! I have one too (http://jennysbooks.wordpress.com) but I have been the rottenest blogger in all of blogging land this year. :/ I have been considering giving it all up and becoming a professional commenter.

You...should read The Horse and His Boy again. The Pevensies are in it a little bit and the people from Calormen do not suck. My sisters and I started saying "Oh my mother and oh the delight of my eyes, may you live forever," because of the people from Calormen, and it made my mother laugh and she would give us whatever we were asking for. Even if it was, like, two desserts. SHE WOULD GIVE US TWO DESSERTS.

Whoa WHAT. The Horse and His Boy you do not like? How can that be? What about Lazaraleen and she is so funny?

Other than that I agree with you. CS Lewis is the best except when sometimes he is being a jerk about the ladies, which happens sometimes and I am allowed to talk about it because I love him but other people who don't love him are not allowed to talk about it because they don't love him.

Very unhappy about Klaus and the other Originals being kept around. I was hoping they'd kill all the Originals except Elijah, who I still like because they use him sparingly!, and have next season's villain be the Town Council. That would be brilliant and awesome, and then there could be lots of interesting questions about Elena being on the side of, basically, the bad guys. But whatever. I liked parts of the finale a lot.

SPOILERS NOW, other commenters! How are you not crowing with self-satisfaction over how right you were about Elena getting vampired? I feel like you should be buying a trophy at the trophy store and having it engraved Most Awesome Predictress 2012. I think Stefan acted like such a schmuck though, seriously. He is A VAMPIRE. He can rip the entire door off of an entire car, but he can't swim two people to safety? Seems very unlikely to me.

Goody! Sounds like a treat! I'm in the mood for historical fiction right now!

Oh you should learn the national anthem! It's very national anthemy. It sounds like all the other national anthems so it is easy to learn AND it's in English.

I am sad that one is not able to quote motions from TV shows as one can quote lines. Because I would like to collapse like George Michael and have everyone understand what is going on. However, I suspect what would actually happen is that everyone would be like JENNY WHAT IS GOING ON.

I didn't love what happened with Alaric at the end BUT, I very much loved it that Bonnie did to Alaric kind of the same thing that Damon did to Bonnie's mom. Anything that might conceivably make Bonnie less of a self-righteous poop is good in my book, although I do not depend upon it.

I find your reasoning about Elena's turning quite compelling! It sounds like a reasonable thing that could happen and I am in favor of it. Maybe that would make the rest of the season slightly less with ABSOLUTELY EVERY SINGLE DAMN THING being about Elena. And I say that as a general Elena fan.

I loved that Cabin in the Woods wasn't too scary -- I am a big chicken and would never have gone to see this in the first place if it hadn't been a Joss Whedon thing. But every time a moment started getting frightening, Joss Whedon undercut it in that way he has. Bradley Whitford was gold.

I thought Stefan came off so creepy and weird and stalkery in this episode -- way more than he's been at any time since the very very start of the series. Boo. I found Self-Righteous Stefan maddening even when his self-righteousness felt justified because we'd never seen him be evil. Now that we've seen him do all manner of evil things, it's way more annoying when he puts on that butter-wouldn't-melt face and talks about What's Best for Elena. Gag. At least Damon isn't crazy irritating.

I don't like reading about dreams but I sort of like hearing about other people's. They get so impressed with my dream interpreting skills, even though my dream-interpreting skills only work because dreams usually employ very obvious symbolism. :p But in dreams they're dead boring -- just a cheaty way of telling us what the characters are feeling.