I’m starting to feel like a broken record (the revision is going well! I’m getting so much great feedback! Some natural disaster came along and tried to kill me!) so let’s talk about something else for a minute.
Reading
I’m at 23 books for the year, which is 2-3 books behind where I should be to reach my 50 book goal. I’m currently reading Havenfall by Sara Holland which is YA fantasy and takes place in Colorado. I love books that take place in Colorado! But not really. Most of them feel like they’ve been written by someone who has never even stepped foot in the state. That’s not really a issue here since this is high/portal fantasy and as such is not meant to be representative of the actual state. So far so good, about halfway through.
Movies
The smaller, mobile one and I have been watching through the kid-appropriate Studio Ghibli films recently. We watched Ponyo (still a little confused about the mechanics at the end of the movie, but overall cute), The Secret World of Arrietty (based on The Borrowers which I’ve never read and probably should), and Spirited Away (one of my very favorites). She tried to get the whole family to watch Totoro but we ended up watching Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which was cute and a little weird. Perfect kid movie from that angle, actually.
On the adult front, we don’t get to watch a lot of adult-aimed movies at the moment (the small, mobile ones don’t go to bed until 9-ish and then we have to watch them over a couple of nights, and most of the time we’re just too tired). But we did watch Tenet last night. Man, Christopher Nolan likes his confusing scifi movies, doesn’t he? Still pondering the movie, suspect some of the plot is held together looser than at first glance. But it had lots of heist elements, and I love a good heist. Bit annoyed at the mother character, who was very much a stereotypical mother (“nothing matters but my child!”) though the actress did well with what she was given.
TV/Streaming
First of all, can I say that I am pissed off about this trend of services deleting shows/movies off to write them off as a loss? This is stupid. After many people put their time and love and energy and creativity into a project, just to axe it? And more annoyingly, these are shows that are doing well, because they make more money back if a show is going to turn a profit when they write them off.
It was bad enough when Disney did it (The Mysterious Benedict Society deserved their third season, and now you can’t watch it at all, and it was so delightfully quirky) but now Paramount has cancelled and deleted Star Trek: Prodigy (which I talked about on here earlier). As a life-long Trekkie, making a Star Trek series unwatchable is a cardinal offense, but I don’t really know what there is to be done about it. I’m just sad and frustrated.
In actual watching, we’ve been watching Muppets Mayhem on Disney+. I love the Muppets a lot, and this show is hitting a lot of the boxes on what I like about them. It’s silly but has heart, and it’s nice to focus on the Electric Mayhem since they’ve been around forever without really getting any notice. We ended up buying the vinyl that went along with the show (in transparent purple) and it’s actually really good.
What have you guys been consuming? Anything amazing I should know about?
See you next week!
