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May. 28th, 2024 06:41 pmMore summer deck reading.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. Perfectly nice and well-written, I think I just prefer for there to be some more conflict in the books I'm reading.
Watership Down by Richard Adams. The Odyssey but make it rabbits. Now this had some conflict. At first I was like, this is about traveling four (4) miles? There is an entire chapter about crossing a river?? But then we got some insane stakes. I like it more and more as I'm letting it marinate in my brain post-read. Also, I love that the most hilarious line in the whole thing would be absolutely unintelligible to anyone that hasn't read it and learned the Lapine words. And it's mainly funny because it's said in the Lapine words.
So after I read the book, I decided to watch the 2018 Netflix adaptation and I don't think it's a terrible adaptation necessarily but having just read the book, there were a lot of things that irritated me, namely, ( spoilers maybe )
Otherwise, I have been watching random '90s movies that I think would be considered classics but I've never seen. I watched The Bodyguard (partly because I was writing a Shadowhunters Bodyguard AU, although the movie dynamic is not where I ended up going), Point Break, and Gross Pointe Blank and it's really interesting to consider how different these feel from current movies. And speaking of current movies, I went to see The Fall Guy and I thought it was very cute and fun. Apparently it got a lot of bad reviews but personally I had a great time and if you want to see a rom com about stunts and making movies, I think you could do a lot worse. I need to look up what other summer movies are coming out. Anyone have recs?
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. Perfectly nice and well-written, I think I just prefer for there to be some more conflict in the books I'm reading.
Watership Down by Richard Adams. The Odyssey but make it rabbits. Now this had some conflict. At first I was like, this is about traveling four (4) miles? There is an entire chapter about crossing a river?? But then we got some insane stakes. I like it more and more as I'm letting it marinate in my brain post-read. Also, I love that the most hilarious line in the whole thing would be absolutely unintelligible to anyone that hasn't read it and learned the Lapine words. And it's mainly funny because it's said in the Lapine words.
So after I read the book, I decided to watch the 2018 Netflix adaptation and I don't think it's a terrible adaptation necessarily but having just read the book, there were a lot of things that irritated me, namely, ( spoilers maybe )
Otherwise, I have been watching random '90s movies that I think would be considered classics but I've never seen. I watched The Bodyguard (partly because I was writing a Shadowhunters Bodyguard AU, although the movie dynamic is not where I ended up going), Point Break, and Gross Pointe Blank and it's really interesting to consider how different these feel from current movies. And speaking of current movies, I went to see The Fall Guy and I thought it was very cute and fun. Apparently it got a lot of bad reviews but personally I had a great time and if you want to see a rom com about stunts and making movies, I think you could do a lot worse. I need to look up what other summer movies are coming out. Anyone have recs?
