Reading and watching
Jun. 17th, 2022 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dianec42I read "The Consuming Fire" by John Scalzi, book 2 in a series. Light fluffy escapism, lots of gratuitous swearing and sex scenes. Interesting plot development and some good twists I didn't see coming. Highly recommended. I will order book 3 as soon as I get through some more of the books I've already got.
Next I read "Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St John Mandel (author of Station Eleven). It was AMAZING. Beautiful, haunting, atmospheric. Just enough stuff left unexplained. I love this book. You should go read it right now. Go on, I'll wait.
I ordered a box set of the first 3 Expanse books. I was somewhat alarmed to see among the reviews on the box "The science fictional equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire" - I thought "hoo boy, I sure hope not!" considering how far I got into THAT box set. Luckily this is much more readable. I am already about halfway through Leviathan Wakes. I've seen the TV series and so far the plots line up pretty well. There's a lot more detail and some stuff I either missed or forgot when watching. It's really good. Apparently there are 10 books and some standalone novellas. That should keep me busy for a while.
Watching: We binged all of the currently available episodes of Stranger Things season 4, and it did get better.
Started watching Obi-Wan Kenobi and it is doing absolutely nothing for me.
Still cranking through old seasons of QI in reverse order, we're back to Stephen Fry days.
Watched a few episodes of "Travel Man" - some minor celeb I've never heard of goes on 2-day trips with other random celebs some of whom I've heard of, all filmed before the pandemic of course - and it's good fun.
Edited to add: Stuart has agreed that the Obi-Wan series is stupid and is a waste of our time. HUZZAH.
Next I read "Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St John Mandel (author of Station Eleven). It was AMAZING. Beautiful, haunting, atmospheric. Just enough stuff left unexplained. I love this book. You should go read it right now. Go on, I'll wait.
I ordered a box set of the first 3 Expanse books. I was somewhat alarmed to see among the reviews on the box "The science fictional equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire" - I thought "hoo boy, I sure hope not!" considering how far I got into THAT box set. Luckily this is much more readable. I am already about halfway through Leviathan Wakes. I've seen the TV series and so far the plots line up pretty well. There's a lot more detail and some stuff I either missed or forgot when watching. It's really good. Apparently there are 10 books and some standalone novellas. That should keep me busy for a while.
Watching: We binged all of the currently available episodes of Stranger Things season 4, and it did get better.
Started watching Obi-Wan Kenobi and it is doing absolutely nothing for me.
Still cranking through old seasons of QI in reverse order, we're back to Stephen Fry days.
Watched a few episodes of "Travel Man" - some minor celeb I've never heard of goes on 2-day trips with other random celebs some of whom I've heard of, all filmed before the pandemic of course - and it's good fun.
Edited to add: Stuart has agreed that the Obi-Wan series is stupid and is a waste of our time. HUZZAH.
