Reading/Watching/Playing
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a_cubedReading:
Finished Aurora Rising (aka The Prefect) and Alysium Fire. Continued with Al Reynolds reading two new ones. First, a standalone Eversion. Fun little book with some echoes of Terminal World and Diamond Dogs. Very interesting structure. I don't want to spoil it, but stick with the first five chapters even if it seems very odd and not Reynolds at all. This would make a fun movie or, probably better, a mini-series. Continued with Reynolds and the new Revelation Space book "Inhibitor Space". I quite like it, but although it claims to be readable without having read the earlier RS books, I'm not entirely certain that's true. Maybe it's just that I have read them, but sufficiently long ago that my memory is too strong to just follow this standalone, but not strong enough to fit it properly within the context. Almost finished it. I may now be inspired to go back through the RS sequence, but they're a long set and I've other things I want to read, so maybe for another time. I think this is the start of a new RS sequence, so maybe when I get to the next one I'll re-read the back list again. This is my 36th book this year, so I'm reading on average about one per week. Not quite as many asvivdunstan, but this is not a competition.
Watching:
Almost done with my re-watch of 12 Monkeys. A nice timey-wimey self-creating self-solving whacky time-travel show. Watched the first six Harry Potter movies with $DAUGHTER with $WIFE paying limited attention to them. Re-watching Dreamworks Dragons series with $DAUGHTER, now up to season 5. Planning to watch The Sandman with $WIFE so it will take a while to get to that as we get limited time to watch things together that are unsuitable for $DAUGHTER. I've got lots to catch up on/try out: Paper Girls, remainder of current season of The Flash, remainder of the first season of Strange New Worlds, Locke and Key Season 3, ...
Playing:
I've been keeping up with Ring Fit Adventure on Switch except for when on a weekend break and for two days while recovering from vaccine shot 4. The "Silent Mode" works well as non-impact for my knees and ankles. I've gone back to Pikmin 3 for some fun, both solo and in co-op and competitive play with $DAUGHTER. A bit played out on both Control and Little Nightmares. Will go back to Control at some point, but may skip to Little Nightmares 2 instead of beating my head against the wall on the easy-to-understand-too-hard-to-do puzzle on LN.
Finished Aurora Rising (aka The Prefect) and Alysium Fire. Continued with Al Reynolds reading two new ones. First, a standalone Eversion. Fun little book with some echoes of Terminal World and Diamond Dogs. Very interesting structure. I don't want to spoil it, but stick with the first five chapters even if it seems very odd and not Reynolds at all. This would make a fun movie or, probably better, a mini-series. Continued with Reynolds and the new Revelation Space book "Inhibitor Space". I quite like it, but although it claims to be readable without having read the earlier RS books, I'm not entirely certain that's true. Maybe it's just that I have read them, but sufficiently long ago that my memory is too strong to just follow this standalone, but not strong enough to fit it properly within the context. Almost finished it. I may now be inspired to go back through the RS sequence, but they're a long set and I've other things I want to read, so maybe for another time. I think this is the start of a new RS sequence, so maybe when I get to the next one I'll re-read the back list again. This is my 36th book this year, so I'm reading on average about one per week. Not quite as many as
vivdunstan, but this is not a competition.Watching:
Almost done with my re-watch of 12 Monkeys. A nice timey-wimey self-creating self-solving whacky time-travel show. Watched the first six Harry Potter movies with $DAUGHTER with $WIFE paying limited attention to them. Re-watching Dreamworks Dragons series with $DAUGHTER, now up to season 5. Planning to watch The Sandman with $WIFE so it will take a while to get to that as we get limited time to watch things together that are unsuitable for $DAUGHTER. I've got lots to catch up on/try out: Paper Girls, remainder of current season of The Flash, remainder of the first season of Strange New Worlds, Locke and Key Season 3, ...
Playing:
I've been keeping up with Ring Fit Adventure on Switch except for when on a weekend break and for two days while recovering from vaccine shot 4. The "Silent Mode" works well as non-impact for my knees and ankles. I've gone back to Pikmin 3 for some fun, both solo and in co-op and competitive play with $DAUGHTER. A bit played out on both Control and Little Nightmares. Will go back to Control at some point, but may skip to Little Nightmares 2 instead of beating my head against the wall on the easy-to-understand-too-hard-to-do puzzle on LN.
