Media Consumption mid-April 2020
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firecatBooks
Finished
Sarah Zettel, Reclamation — Published 1996, won locus award for best 1st novel. Space opera. Love how the story and relationships among the characters and their worlds/cultures are graaaadually revealed.
Reading
N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became
Audiobooks
Finished
Charlaine Harris, An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose #1) — Narrated really well by Eva Kaminsky. Alternative history Western set in an early-mid-twentieth century where the United States has broken into multiple countries, and there's magic. Lizabeth is a mercenary bodyguard, more or less. I wish it were more clear how magic worked, but I really like the character and the narrator, so it works for me.
Walter Mosley, Little Scarlet (Easy Rawlins #9) — Narrated by Michael Boatman. Set in LA right after the Watts Rebellion, August 1965. Easy is an investigator/fixer and custodian for a school. He is sorta hired / sorta coerced by the police into helping them solve the murder of a young black woman. Normally they wouldn't care about that, but they're worried a white guy killed her and if that gets out it might incite more riots. I felt like this was one of the better Easy Rawlins books.
Listening
S. E. Green, Killer Instinct —Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller. First in a YA thriller series about a teen girl who has serial killer urges and, like Dexter, wants to use them against serial killers and other evildoers. I love the protagonist.
TV/Movies
Watched
Altered Carbon — Netflix original series based on the books by Richard K. Morgan about a cyberpunk universe where people's memories and personalities can be digitally saved, backed up, and downloaded into different bodies ("sleeves"). The novels are essentially three standalones with one character in common, but the first two seasons of the TV series share a lot of characters. Kovacs in the second season is played very well by Anthony Mackie. Poe is my favorite character. I blame him for the sudden rekindling of my interest in fanfic.
Watching
American Gods — Starz series based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. Some of it is not how I envisioned it when I read the book, but it is reasonably faithful to the book in a lot of ways that matter and different in ways that also work for me.
Locke & Key — Netflix teen drama fantasy about a family where the dad is murdered and the rest of the family subsequently moves to a house where creepy things are going on. Seeing it as part of a weekly watch party.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Rewatching (at a distance) specific episodes with a sweetie. I used to really like it but wow it has not aged well, IMO.
Music
Over on FB I'm doing one of those "20 albums in 20 days" memes and yesterday's album was Beautiful Loser by Bob Seger. Looking that up led me to the original version of "Nutbush City," by Ike & Tina Turner.
Finished
Sarah Zettel, Reclamation — Published 1996, won locus award for best 1st novel. Space opera. Love how the story and relationships among the characters and their worlds/cultures are graaaadually revealed.
Reading
N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became
Audiobooks
Finished
Charlaine Harris, An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose #1) — Narrated really well by Eva Kaminsky. Alternative history Western set in an early-mid-twentieth century where the United States has broken into multiple countries, and there's magic. Lizabeth is a mercenary bodyguard, more or less. I wish it were more clear how magic worked, but I really like the character and the narrator, so it works for me.
Walter Mosley, Little Scarlet (Easy Rawlins #9) — Narrated by Michael Boatman. Set in LA right after the Watts Rebellion, August 1965. Easy is an investigator/fixer and custodian for a school. He is sorta hired / sorta coerced by the police into helping them solve the murder of a young black woman. Normally they wouldn't care about that, but they're worried a white guy killed her and if that gets out it might incite more riots. I felt like this was one of the better Easy Rawlins books.
Listening
S. E. Green, Killer Instinct —Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller. First in a YA thriller series about a teen girl who has serial killer urges and, like Dexter, wants to use them against serial killers and other evildoers. I love the protagonist.
TV/Movies
Watched
Altered Carbon — Netflix original series based on the books by Richard K. Morgan about a cyberpunk universe where people's memories and personalities can be digitally saved, backed up, and downloaded into different bodies ("sleeves"). The novels are essentially three standalones with one character in common, but the first two seasons of the TV series share a lot of characters. Kovacs in the second season is played very well by Anthony Mackie. Poe is my favorite character. I blame him for the sudden rekindling of my interest in fanfic.
Watching
American Gods — Starz series based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. Some of it is not how I envisioned it when I read the book, but it is reasonably faithful to the book in a lot of ways that matter and different in ways that also work for me.
Locke & Key — Netflix teen drama fantasy about a family where the dad is murdered and the rest of the family subsequently moves to a house where creepy things are going on. Seeing it as part of a weekly watch party.
Star Trek: The Next Generation — Rewatching (at a distance) specific episodes with a sweetie. I used to really like it but wow it has not aged well, IMO.
Music
Over on FB I'm doing one of those "20 albums in 20 days" memes and yesterday's album was Beautiful Loser by Bob Seger. Looking that up led me to the original version of "Nutbush City," by Ike & Tina Turner.