Posted on May 4, 2022 in Books
Go Tell The Bees I am Gone (Outlander Book 9) by Diana Gabaldon
This was so long and slow. It felt like not much happened. I have mixed feelings about these books. I am not a completionist but I keep reading this series. It’s like going back to watch a tv show every few years with characters I recognize. I even stopped watching the TV show. I don’t mind the minutiae of the books. I actually like some of the social history bits. I do like some of these characters. It was also not that violent this time. I’ll keep reading but I don’t recommend this series overall.
Read March 30-April 7, 2022.
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
See here.
Satoko and Nada, Vol. 3 by Yupechika
Still cute. One more to go before this lovely manga is done.
Read April 17-18, 2022.
Posted on May 2, 2022 in Monthly Movies, Movies
Back in the early years of this blog – about 20 years ago – I would track all the movies I watched.
In the last couple years, I cut down on a lot of TV and film watching because I was looking at too many screens during my work day and I wanted time for my other hobbies.
Now that I am living mostly alone (temporarily) and knitting more, tv and film are back on my radar. I also have a big backlog of TV and films.
I also want to watch more French language things because I have not been using French at all in the last 5 years. Ten years ago, I even worked briefly in French so I’d like to keep it up.
Logan Lucky (22 03 2022) – Long overdue to watch this film which features two actors from my List of favourites. Hint: Channing Tatum is not one of them even though I like him fine. I have always liked Steven Soderbergh as a director. I love his fast shots and angles. Funny and entertaining movie. I felt really immersed in the world. It’s really nice watching an original, smaller budget film with great actors and not overly fancy CGI or effects. This movie is not in any cheap looking because of the script and the crew though. Really good.
Spider-man No way home – I wish I had seen this in theatres. Like many people of my generation, I saw the Tobey Maguire Spider-man movies in cinema and liked them. Well, the first 2 any way. I was spoiled for awhile going into this newest edition. I am a casual Marvel fan and do not watch every Marvel movie or TV show but there are definitely some characters and aspects to the movies which I like. I honestly think they captured some of the best of the first time Spider-Man franchises (including their leads) and the new Marvel ones. The ending is more bittersweet than most Marvel movies which I appreciated.
I planned to watch more things in April, but other things got in the way.