Recent books and media
Feb. 26th, 2015 12:30 pmRecent
"Gods behaving badly". Sitting on my to-buy pile for ages because I saw a good rec online. Greek gods in much reduced circumstances in the modern world. Felt more mainstream than fantasy. Fairly well done, but didn't add much over other similar books.
"Watership Down" Reading along with rmc's readthrough. I realised that when I said "I'd read it", everyone didn't automatically interpret that as "...every couple of years and love every chapter of it" (despite the flaws).
"Walking Dead #1" from humble bundle. Modern comic about classic zombie apocalypse. Good, but I need to decide if I can be bothered to read further.
"The Wicked and The Divine" about twelve gods who incarnate in the bodies of twelve people who die after two years, but live the high life in the meantime. I love the finger-clicking. Got the first volume and read the first two issues, definitely going further.
"Almighty Johnsons series #2", about Norse gods reborn in New Zealand. All the usual problems I'd expect from mainstream media, but less so than many, and funny and engaging. I only just realised how much of an innuendo the title is.
"West Wing" Finally saw series #3 thanks to ghoti.
"Misfits" UK TV show about young offenders in a community service program who get superpowers. I want to watch it in order so I bought the box set, but aren't really excited about each individual episode.
Upcoming
Hope to see "Big Hero 6" with Liv at the weekend if I have the dates right.
Legend of Korra season #2. I'm assured this gets more Korra-y and less love-triangle-y later on, so after not being sure after season #1 I bought the next one.
More "Sandman", the fifth absolute volume! Liv and I got this for Xmas and have been reading another chapter when we've had time, which has been not nearly enough. But we've been good about neither putting it off too much, not binging too much!
"Two serpents rise". I need to re-buy this!
"Foxglove summer" I said I'd wait for the paperback because I really really wanted to read it, but didn't need to read it right now and hate cluttering my shelves up with hardbacks. But now I'm regretting it, but the paperback is that much closer...
"Gods behaving badly". Sitting on my to-buy pile for ages because I saw a good rec online. Greek gods in much reduced circumstances in the modern world. Felt more mainstream than fantasy. Fairly well done, but didn't add much over other similar books.
"Watership Down" Reading along with rmc's readthrough. I realised that when I said "I'd read it", everyone didn't automatically interpret that as "...every couple of years and love every chapter of it" (despite the flaws).
"Walking Dead #1" from humble bundle. Modern comic about classic zombie apocalypse. Good, but I need to decide if I can be bothered to read further.
"The Wicked and The Divine" about twelve gods who incarnate in the bodies of twelve people who die after two years, but live the high life in the meantime. I love the finger-clicking. Got the first volume and read the first two issues, definitely going further.
"Almighty Johnsons series #2", about Norse gods reborn in New Zealand. All the usual problems I'd expect from mainstream media, but less so than many, and funny and engaging. I only just realised how much of an innuendo the title is.
"West Wing" Finally saw series #3 thanks to ghoti.
"Misfits" UK TV show about young offenders in a community service program who get superpowers. I want to watch it in order so I bought the box set, but aren't really excited about each individual episode.
Upcoming
Hope to see "Big Hero 6" with Liv at the weekend if I have the dates right.
Legend of Korra season #2. I'm assured this gets more Korra-y and less love-triangle-y later on, so after not being sure after season #1 I bought the next one.
More "Sandman", the fifth absolute volume! Liv and I got this for Xmas and have been reading another chapter when we've had time, which has been not nearly enough. But we've been good about neither putting it off too much, not binging too much!
"Two serpents rise". I need to re-buy this!
"Foxglove summer" I said I'd wait for the paperback because I really really wanted to read it, but didn't need to read it right now and hate cluttering my shelves up with hardbacks. But now I'm regretting it, but the paperback is that much closer...