The Week in Womble aka Forking Shirtballs it was a long month!
Helloooooo!
Ok I have skipped again but work was very much stuck in a endless cycle of stuff that didn’t work so you didn’t need to hear about that! Now that will be someone else’s problem for a few days. This weekend we’ve been doing some final house stuff bar some outside jobs and I’ve realised it’s getting the house ready for autumn. The nights are getting dark early and there has been a chill first thing. Have a nice long weekend planned in four days and will even see some friends. Then I foresee evenings with books curled up on the sofa so not all bad eh? Dark nights mean horror tends to come back on my reading slates so I’m looking forward to that and also Fantasycon has been booked so will be interesting to see how it all goes!
Things I listened to
Something new to mention that I’ve been meaning to try for a while is Robby The Robots Waiting – an SF&F podcast with a number of people I recognise from when I read SFX Magazine. A mixture of new geeky news and a look back at a classic in this case Terminator 2. It was quite entertaining so worth a listen
What I’ve Been Watching
We are halfway into Elementary Season 2 which I’m definitely saying is better than Sherlock at capturing the dynamics and adding something new. Also halfway through The Good Place Rewatch which definitely rewards rewatches as you spot certain jokes that are paying of many seasons later. It is one of the kindest shows I’ve seen
I fancied some monster movies this week so watched King Kong Skull Island and Godzilla King of Monsters. The former is very entertaining avoiding the too familiar Empire State plot and this time has a series of Monster battles on skull island as Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson try to stay alive. It’s got some genuinely tense scenes and really works.
Godzilla King of Monsters did not work as well for me on the second try. The Monster element is excellent and expands the world but there are a group of humans that I don’t care about. It felt like a film aiming for Spielberg wonder and sadly doesn’t have the heart to make to make care about them. I may try Godzilla this week before Godzilla Vs Kong to finish things off
What Have I been reading?
Amok by Anna Tan – an entertaining mix of old and new mythologies
The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson – a DNF not for me
Wendy, Darling by A C Wise – a very smart and grown up tale exploring what happened after Peter Pan to Wendy and throws in a look at the danger of not growing up
Notes From The Burning Age by Claire North – an excellent SF that reminds me of a cold war thriller but explores why climate change is something we rarely want to stop
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – as always from this author excellent storytelling this time noir in 1970’s Mexico with two amazing lead characters
Best Debut - Legendborn by Tracy Deonn – One of the smartest starts to a YA series in some time
I have one last book for my own Subjective Chaos categories I may catch up on the remaining novellas and then it’s judging time end of the month! Then I can get back to my own pile of reading at last.
What am I Going to Read?
In the near future Djinn, Storms, Parables, Shards, Men, Burning, A Legacy, Aliens and an Empire.
And so much more!! Good luck for the future – we will get there. See you in a week!
