After two glorious weeks off I returned to work on Monday. What a shock to the system. Unlike my friend Marvin it was not relaxing. Despite lack of reading time I still did fairly well. For one thing I’ve made quite a bit of Progress with my audio book – The Lying Game by Ruth Ware. A long commute has got to be good for something, right?
As part of a buddy read I finished A Study in Scarlet. I had never liked Sherlock Holmes as a teenager despite the encouragement of both my sister and father. I always preferred Ms. Christie. I am glad to report that now that I’m older that I don’t mind Sherlock as much. I do think the abrupt transition from London to Utah could have been done better. I was reading this as an ebook and initially thought my copy was defective. It is also interesting to me that the visual versions of these stories make both Watson and Lestrade out to be rather stupid but I didn’t get that sense from this story at all. I’m now reading Neil Gaiman’s a Study in Emerald to compare and contrast the works. Since a Study in Emerald is in a collection of short stories, Fragile Things, I’m reading the complete set.I also completed There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins and I think I’ll post a complete review sometime later this week. Since I finished this I picked up Bonfire by Krysten Ritter and am enjoying it so far.
On the non book related front I’ve been watching a Netflix series called the Travelers. I had heard nothing about this series until a friend told me about it. In broad strokes the premise of the show is as follows – things are very dire in the future but advances have been made and the ability to send human consciousnesses back in time to inhabit a human body are possible. So travelers are sent back to try and repair events that may have lead up to the dire reality that exists in the future. When the travelers aren’t on a mission they need to maintain the everyday existence of the bodies o the people they inhabit. it’s this aspect of the story I am most interested in, watching the characters cope and maintain a sense of purpose is fascinating to me. Since this is a quiet sci fi show, no explosions, not even a lot of drama I suspect many people will give it a miss. I am glad that Paste Magazine noticed it though and they give a more convincing argument for watching. Check out their article at their website Traveler’s review
I’ve also been indulging in stuff that is just fun. Yes Entertainment Weekly gave the following poor grades and yes my tastes are pretty low brow but, you know what, sometimes low brow is just fine. I watched Bright, also on Netflix, and enjoyed the hybrid mystery/ScFi aspects of it. I did think the political message was a little too overt, more world building needs to be done, and I’d also like to see more buddy chemistry between Will Smith’s character and Joel Edgerton’s character but I’ll def. be waiting for the sequel. We also went and saw Jumanji. Jack Black is a comic genius as far as I am concerned. His teenage girl, hysterical. This was great campy fun.
Until next time stay warm everyone and read something good!
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