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Picked up four new audio books (free) with my credits. I have two credits remaining, with another coming in a month. I got an email from audible that if I didn't use them soon - they'd expire on me.
The four books?
* Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Stories from a South African Childhood (Narrated by Trevor Noah)
* Killers of the Flower Moon - The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann, narrated by Will Patton, Anne Marie Lee, and Danny Campbell
* Finding Me - a Memoir by Viola Davis, narrated by Viola Davis
* The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60+ Novels and Stories from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Mary Shelley, and More - narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Malk Williams, Karen Cass.
I can't read for pleasure that well at the moment, so have resorted to audio books. Which is ironic since prior to 2020, I couldn't imagine myself ever being able to make it through an audio book. I am picky about them though - plotty books with a narrator doing multiple voices yet sounding the same are hard for me to follow.
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Finished watching Lightyear - which is okay. It had a decent twist regarding who Zurg was and why. Also it handled the time travel dilemma better than most. But it was long, and slow in spots, and for a kids animated film too long, too slow, and deep for its own good. Also repetitive. I got bored and started doing something else during it.
Anyhow, I can see why it didn't do well and ended up on streaming rather quickly.
The best thing about it was the plot twist. That was darkly humorous.
I'd tell you, but it would ruin the entire movie - and its really the only thing the movie had going for it.
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Tried House of the Dragon E1, S1, on HBO Max. And...it's okay. I gave up. I couldn't get into it. I don't care about anyone. The film is dark and hard to see. Everyone has white wigs on. (Or just about everyone).
And it's violent. And I ...have better things to do.
I'm not in the right headspace for it.
This is the third or fourth television thing my co-workers were into that I just can't get into right now. The others were Severance (nope), Squid Game (no), Resident Alien (sci-fi watcher was into it), and now House of Dragon.
Let's face it - I want to watch musicals, romances, fluffy shows, that don't require too much attention. I'm considering buying Baz Lurhamn's Elvis, which is by far the most captivating and haunting film I've seen this year. [Baz Lurham did Strictly Ballroom, Romeo +Juliet, Australia, Moulin Rouge, Great Gatsby, and the television series The Get Down. He's kind of hit or miss for me, I either really love his films, or dislike them. I loved Strictly Ballroom (and got obsessed with ballroom dancing), Romeo + Juliet, and Elvis, disliked Moulin Rouge and Australia, have not seen the Great Gatsby.]
(I've not seen that many films this year.)
The other's I liked were Everywhere, Everything, All at Once, and last year's Spiderman: No Way Home.
I get why people are into Top Gun: Maverick (it's the aerial flight footage and cinematography) but I don't care nor feel the need to watch it in a movie theater right now. From little I saw of it - it made me dizzy. I get motion sickness. It's hot right now though - apparently people like the idea of being a fighter pilot? Another sign that our society is toxic and needs serious help.
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Mother is out of the hospital. They sent her home with pain meds, meds to help the kidney stone pass, and a call into her urinologist, who she needs to see immediately to determine next steps. Whether the stone needs to be crushed down to size or if it can pass normally. They showed her where it was on the scan, and how big it was.
She got home by 7:30. She didn't tell me she hadn't eaten anything, until I was in mid-sentence on something unrelated. So, I got off the phone.
Told me not to worry about her, she's fine. I'm not really - you can't really die from kidney stones. They are just really painful. And I don't want my mother to be in more pain. She is grieving my father. Seriously, enough already, Universe.
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The four books?
* Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Stories from a South African Childhood (Narrated by Trevor Noah)
* Killers of the Flower Moon - The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann, narrated by Will Patton, Anne Marie Lee, and Danny Campbell
* Finding Me - a Memoir by Viola Davis, narrated by Viola Davis
* The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60+ Novels and Stories from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Mary Shelley, and More - narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Malk Williams, Karen Cass.
I can't read for pleasure that well at the moment, so have resorted to audio books. Which is ironic since prior to 2020, I couldn't imagine myself ever being able to make it through an audio book. I am picky about them though - plotty books with a narrator doing multiple voices yet sounding the same are hard for me to follow.
***
Finished watching Lightyear - which is okay. It had a decent twist regarding who Zurg was and why. Also it handled the time travel dilemma better than most. But it was long, and slow in spots, and for a kids animated film too long, too slow, and deep for its own good. Also repetitive. I got bored and started doing something else during it.
Anyhow, I can see why it didn't do well and ended up on streaming rather quickly.
The best thing about it was the plot twist. That was darkly humorous.
I'd tell you, but it would ruin the entire movie - and its really the only thing the movie had going for it.
***
Tried House of the Dragon E1, S1, on HBO Max. And...it's okay. I gave up. I couldn't get into it. I don't care about anyone. The film is dark and hard to see. Everyone has white wigs on. (Or just about everyone).
And it's violent. And I ...have better things to do.
I'm not in the right headspace for it.
This is the third or fourth television thing my co-workers were into that I just can't get into right now. The others were Severance (nope), Squid Game (no), Resident Alien (sci-fi watcher was into it), and now House of Dragon.
Let's face it - I want to watch musicals, romances, fluffy shows, that don't require too much attention. I'm considering buying Baz Lurhamn's Elvis, which is by far the most captivating and haunting film I've seen this year. [Baz Lurham did Strictly Ballroom, Romeo +Juliet, Australia, Moulin Rouge, Great Gatsby, and the television series The Get Down. He's kind of hit or miss for me, I either really love his films, or dislike them. I loved Strictly Ballroom (and got obsessed with ballroom dancing), Romeo + Juliet, and Elvis, disliked Moulin Rouge and Australia, have not seen the Great Gatsby.]
(I've not seen that many films this year.)
The other's I liked were Everywhere, Everything, All at Once, and last year's Spiderman: No Way Home.
I get why people are into Top Gun: Maverick (it's the aerial flight footage and cinematography) but I don't care nor feel the need to watch it in a movie theater right now. From little I saw of it - it made me dizzy. I get motion sickness. It's hot right now though - apparently people like the idea of being a fighter pilot? Another sign that our society is toxic and needs serious help.
***
Mother is out of the hospital. They sent her home with pain meds, meds to help the kidney stone pass, and a call into her urinologist, who she needs to see immediately to determine next steps. Whether the stone needs to be crushed down to size or if it can pass normally. They showed her where it was on the scan, and how big it was.
She got home by 7:30. She didn't tell me she hadn't eaten anything, until I was in mid-sentence on something unrelated. So, I got off the phone.
Told me not to worry about her, she's fine. I'm not really - you can't really die from kidney stones. They are just really painful. And I don't want my mother to be in more pain. She is grieving my father. Seriously, enough already, Universe.
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