Reading/Watching/Playing
Jul. 16th, 2022 11:38 amPlaying
Not much lately. Been a little busy. I did start Ring Fit Adventure on Friday. Not sure I can keep going with it. I need the exercise but the running seems too much for my ankles. There's a "silent mode" designed for people who live in apartment buildings and want to play at night, though. $WIFE says that's squat/rise rather than jog/run on spot. Might try that today or tomorrow. Legs sore.
Watching
Finished Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy. Great Fun. Looking forward to the fourth and final season.
Up to Season 5 of my The Magicians re-watch. The end of Season 4, as always, was really affecting. Can7t watch it without crying. Excellently done TV.
Watched Doctor Strange 2 with the family last week. Enjoyable but they seem to have skipped the obvious Doctor Strange 2 and his battle with Mordo, perhaps due to the overall arc and not having space to fit it in, but having to get into what happens with Wanda in Phase IV?
Reading.
Finished Oddjobs and Oddjobs 2: This Time it's Personal. Definitely recommended, particularly if you like![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
autopope's Laundry Files books.
Blasted through Rob Harts The Paradox Hotel next. Lots of fun. Great bottle story book of time travel weirdness in one hotel over a limited number of days (plus time travel, flashbacks, flashforwards). Some overlap with The Umbrella Academy Season 3 in my head. My only criticism is that too many side characters got lost in my head at times, particularly when dialogue used their surnames but the protagonists' first person narrative used their first names. Great lesbian and non-binary representation from my cis-het perspective.
Now partway through The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry. Nice multiverse thriller. Rather reminiscent of The Incrementalists by Brust and White in some aspects. Some conceptual overlap with Russian Doll as well, I think.
Not much lately. Been a little busy. I did start Ring Fit Adventure on Friday. Not sure I can keep going with it. I need the exercise but the running seems too much for my ankles. There's a "silent mode" designed for people who live in apartment buildings and want to play at night, though. $WIFE says that's squat/rise rather than jog/run on spot. Might try that today or tomorrow. Legs sore.
Watching
Finished Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy. Great Fun. Looking forward to the fourth and final season.
Up to Season 5 of my The Magicians re-watch. The end of Season 4, as always, was really affecting. Can7t watch it without crying. Excellently done TV.
Watched Doctor Strange 2 with the family last week. Enjoyable but they seem to have skipped the obvious Doctor Strange 2 and his battle with Mordo, perhaps due to the overall arc and not having space to fit it in, but having to get into what happens with Wanda in Phase IV?
Reading.
Finished Oddjobs and Oddjobs 2: This Time it's Personal. Definitely recommended, particularly if you like
autopope's Laundry Files books.Blasted through Rob Harts The Paradox Hotel next. Lots of fun. Great bottle story book of time travel weirdness in one hotel over a limited number of days (plus time travel, flashbacks, flashforwards). Some overlap with The Umbrella Academy Season 3 in my head. My only criticism is that too many side characters got lost in my head at times, particularly when dialogue used their surnames but the protagonists' first person narrative used their first names. Great lesbian and non-binary representation from my cis-het perspective.
Now partway through The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry. Nice multiverse thriller. Rather reminiscent of The Incrementalists by Brust and White in some aspects. Some conceptual overlap with Russian Doll as well, I think.
