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Read a book. All the cool people are doing it.

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Taking a brief pause to appreciate TV characters who read… for no real reason except that it gives me a good excuse to Google stuff. Without further ado:

Damon Salvatore thinks sparkly vampires are stupid.

Sawyer rockin’ the reading glasses.

Don Draper is a very serious reader.

Good slayers always do their homework first. But where are the Scoobies?

Good slayers always do their homework first. But where are the Scoobies?

No, the other Scoobies!

Joey found Little Women kinda scary.

Gemma hitting the medical texts. Career change?

Trying to read here, Varys.

Never too old for a bedtime story.

Updated 8/24/2012 to add:

Piney reading a one-of-a-kind Stephen King novel. That’s “Cycle Zombies”, and it exists only in TV land.

That’s all I’ve got! If you come up with any other good ones, please share.

11/5/2012: Updated to add this additional cute photo:

Some scary things happen in “The Angels Take Manhattan” episode of Doctor Who, but this reading-friendly picnic scene is just adorable.

When worlds collide, part I

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That sound you’re hearing is the collective sigh of millions of Outlander fans, having achieve superior mental orgasms due to the following announcement:

Sony Pictures TV has closed a deal for the rights to Outlander, Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling fantasy/romance/adventure series of books. Battlestar Galactica developer/executive producer Ron Moore will write the series adaptation, with Jim Kohlberg’s Story Mining and Supply Co producing. The project will be taken to cable networks this week.
 

Source: http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/ron-moore-to-adapt-outlander-novels-into-cable-tv-series/#more-302257

Not only does this thrill my inner Outlander fan, but also… Ron Moore! Battlestar Galactica! One of my all-time favorite TV series mentioned in the same breath as one of my all-time favorite books!
My head is spinning over the potential awesomeness of the entire thing.
But can you imagine the casting nightmare this will be? Millions of women, madly in love with Jamie Fraser, have been arguing over their dream casting for years, possibly even decades. No matter who they pick, someone is going to be mighty pissed off. You do NOT want to mess with Jamie Fraser fantasies, that’s for sure.

Let’s hope some wise cable network (yoo-hoo, HBO? are you listening?) snaps this deal right up. The world needs men in kilts on TV, pronto!