Missed last week. Sometimes things just get out of hand…
Read & Reading
Since my last update, I finished Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin, which I reviewed on Thursday Saturday, and Magic is Dead by Ian Frisch, which I will review on this coming Thursday (maybe). I read Fevre Dream for the Book Junkies Trial, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to do too much more with that challenge. I have three library books and two ARC/review copies that I want/need to get to in the near future. (Plus I still haven’t finished my reread of PHYSIC.) I was considering “catching up” during the 24 in 48 readathon this coming weekend, but Eric and I have been called upon to do some unexpected cat-sitting, so I don’t know how things will go exactly.
This coming week I’ll be reading:
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar and Scripting Hitchcock by Walter Raubicheck & Walter Srebnick along with The Count Monte Cristo and short stories.
Deal Me In: Last Sunday I picked a two—a wild card—and picked a reread “Django” by Harlan Ellison from Shatterday. Each of the stories in Shatterday includes an introduction/origin story written by Ellison. He wrote “Django” while sitting in a bookstore window as a publicity stunt. He was utterly unsure whether the story was good, even after it had been accepted for publication. And that’s a sort of comforting thing for a writer—to know that even your heroes have moments of uncertainty. My DMI story for this week was fairly unremarkable.
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis
What’s Deal Me In?
Movie of the Week
Man, what a beautiful movie. Into the Spiderverse is sort of tertiary to the main Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I’m glad of that. Honestly, I’m kind of tired of the long baroque, epic 22 movie story. (I still haven’t seen Endgame.) If you delve into super-hero comics, you quickly realize there are many iterations of characters and their stories. In fact, the only Spider-man comics I’ve read have been Brian Michael Bendis’ Miles Morales books, rather than the Peter Parker version. Into the Spiderverse revels in the concept of multiple Spider-men, um, Spider-people and their worlds. The animation is incredible, though I’m glad I didn’t see it in the theater. I think I would have been over-whelmed by the amount of stuff going on.
What Else is Going On?
Been playing quite a bit of EverQuest 2. The server Eric and I play on unlocked the Desert of Flames expansion, so we’ve been adventuring there. This is my main character Ressa Cheep overlooking one oasis of the Twin Tears.
I hope you are able to join in for at least part of 24 in 48. It is always a good time to catch up on my reading. Maybe you will be able to read and cat sit.
I’m glad to hear you enjoyed Spiderman. I’ve heard a lot of good things about it.
I remember reading a collection of Harlan Ellison when I was young. I used to love reading short stories.
Have a great week!
I love Into the Spiderverse. I haven’t seen any of the Avengers films and have no desire to. My week in review
Spiderverse was just so much more comic-book-y than all the recent films. I loved it. I would recommend Thor: Ragnarok, though. I think you can kind of pick it up with having seem many/any of the other movies.
I also loved Into the Spiderverse; we watched it at home but I would have loved to have seen it on a big screen. I’ve seen Endgame twice now and it’s really worth it in my opinion, but then I’m a sucker for these big sci-fi movies and will be taking delivery of Captain Marvel sometime today. Have a lovely week 🙂
I am looking forward to seeing Captain Marvel in the near future because she looks so darn awesome.
I liked Spiderverse, my boys loved it though. I haven’t seen Endgame yet either because we couldn’t afford to go to the movies, I am eagerly awaiting it’s streaming release though.
Have a great reading week, interesting choices you have there.