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Jul. 22nd, 2023 08:47 pm1. Oppenheimer
( Mother's take on Oppenhiemer )
2. Watched Dragon Prince: The Mystery of Aravaos and The Legend of Vox Machina. I like Vox Machina better - it has more interesting characters and is well more adult (it's written for 16+) while the other one is a teen show. Both are rather good, similar animation styles, high fantasy (elves, magic, dwarves, dragons), and decent vocal actors.
I'm further along in Dragon Prince - now on the 3rd Season. While just five episodes into the first season of Vox Machina. Neither holds a candle to Arcane (in both animation, story, characterization, and musical score - but that's gold standard). However, thematically they are better - and there's less irritation regarding who developed them.
I like anime. My dream job would be to write and draw my own animated film or comic, but alas, I'm not good enough. So sticking with the day job.
3. Still flirting with horror novels on Amazon and Good Reads. Smart Bitches rec'd two that are possibilities, and won the Stokers. One of which was also rec'd by anne1962 on Twitter.
The Devil Takes You Home - a novel by Gabino-Iglesias and features a Hispanic hero.
"Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull. But the path to reward or ruin is never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. One thing is certain: even if Mario makes it out alive, he won’t return the same."
But it's pricey at $14.99 on Kindle. I could potentially borrow it from the Brooklyn Library however - on ebook. I might try that when I finish the one's I'm currently reading.
The other one, also $14.99 is tempting me as an audiobook (since I have a credit)
Spite House by Johnny Compton. I listened to the audio sample and that narrator is good. (The other one's isn't, this one's is.)
Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money—it's not easy to find steady, safe work when you can't provide references, you can't stay in one place for long, and you're paranoid that your past is creeping back up on you.
When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson House in Degener, Texas, Eric thinks they may have finally caught a lucky break. The Masson property, notorious for being one of the most haunted places in Texas, needs a caretaker of sorts. The owner is looking for proof of paranormal activity. All they need to do is stay in the house and keep a detailed record of everything that happens there. Provided the house’s horrors don’t drive them all mad, like the caretakers before them.
The job calls to Eric, not just because there's a huge payout if they can make it through, but because he wants to explore the secrets of the spite house. If it is indeed haunted, maybe it'll help him understand the uncanny power that clings to his family, driving them from town to town, making them afraid to stop running.
This has an African-American hero, another rarity in the horror novel field.
What am I reading?
( Read more... )
I keep meeting a lot of folks who don't read. And didn't read in school.
Me: Favorite color is purple.
Co-worker: Did you read the Color Purple?
ME: Read the book in high school, was a favorite, saw the movie later.
Co-worker: Wow. I didn't read it until more recently. But then I didn't read much of anything in high school.
Me: I read anything I get my hands on. It was rec'd to me, and I loved it.
(Then I started rec'ing books, which I shouldn't have done. Oh well.)
I don't understand people who don't read. Even when I'm in reading slumps, I find a way to read - that's when I started listening to audio books. Podcasts? The appeal is lost on me. Audio books - I can get behind.
( Mother's take on Oppenhiemer )
2. Watched Dragon Prince: The Mystery of Aravaos and The Legend of Vox Machina. I like Vox Machina better - it has more interesting characters and is well more adult (it's written for 16+) while the other one is a teen show. Both are rather good, similar animation styles, high fantasy (elves, magic, dwarves, dragons), and decent vocal actors.
I'm further along in Dragon Prince - now on the 3rd Season. While just five episodes into the first season of Vox Machina. Neither holds a candle to Arcane (in both animation, story, characterization, and musical score - but that's gold standard). However, thematically they are better - and there's less irritation regarding who developed them.
I like anime. My dream job would be to write and draw my own animated film or comic, but alas, I'm not good enough. So sticking with the day job.
3. Still flirting with horror novels on Amazon and Good Reads. Smart Bitches rec'd two that are possibilities, and won the Stokers. One of which was also rec'd by anne1962 on Twitter.
The Devil Takes You Home - a novel by Gabino-Iglesias and features a Hispanic hero.
"Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull. But the path to reward or ruin is never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. One thing is certain: even if Mario makes it out alive, he won’t return the same."
But it's pricey at $14.99 on Kindle. I could potentially borrow it from the Brooklyn Library however - on ebook. I might try that when I finish the one's I'm currently reading.
The other one, also $14.99 is tempting me as an audiobook (since I have a credit)
Spite House by Johnny Compton. I listened to the audio sample and that narrator is good. (The other one's isn't, this one's is.)
Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money—it's not easy to find steady, safe work when you can't provide references, you can't stay in one place for long, and you're paranoid that your past is creeping back up on you.
When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson House in Degener, Texas, Eric thinks they may have finally caught a lucky break. The Masson property, notorious for being one of the most haunted places in Texas, needs a caretaker of sorts. The owner is looking for proof of paranormal activity. All they need to do is stay in the house and keep a detailed record of everything that happens there. Provided the house’s horrors don’t drive them all mad, like the caretakers before them.
The job calls to Eric, not just because there's a huge payout if they can make it through, but because he wants to explore the secrets of the spite house. If it is indeed haunted, maybe it'll help him understand the uncanny power that clings to his family, driving them from town to town, making them afraid to stop running.
This has an African-American hero, another rarity in the horror novel field.
What am I reading?
( Read more... )
I keep meeting a lot of folks who don't read. And didn't read in school.
Me: Favorite color is purple.
Co-worker: Did you read the Color Purple?
ME: Read the book in high school, was a favorite, saw the movie later.
Co-worker: Wow. I didn't read it until more recently. But then I didn't read much of anything in high school.
Me: I read anything I get my hands on. It was rec'd to me, and I loved it.
(Then I started rec'ing books, which I shouldn't have done. Oh well.)
I don't understand people who don't read. Even when I'm in reading slumps, I find a way to read - that's when I started listening to audio books. Podcasts? The appeal is lost on me. Audio books - I can get behind.