I read the following books:
Thoughts:
- Franny K. Stein: Lunch Walks Among Us by Jim Benton: Tesfa enjoyed this book. There will be more in the series over the next few months, especially since I bought the box set for a surprise on our trip to Ontario next month.
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: I have already detailed my unhappy thoughts about Austen earlier this month.
I’m not super chatty about the books I read in December.
Best book:
Considering I put it as my best book of the year, The Rotter’s Club by Jonathan Coe.
Most promising book I put on my wishlist:
I have no memory of putting this book on my wishlist: The House On Sugarbush Road, so I’m thinking that it’s an inspired choice.
I watched:
Thoughts (and I’m far more chatty about movies and stuff than books this month):
- Homeland: I’m sorry. This show is just plain dumb. Geoff and I watched until half-way through Season One and then looked at each other and said We have better things to do. Here’s an alternet article about the stupidity of Homeland to back me up.
- 30 Rock: In my quest to find something to watch while eating lunch, I tried this. I guess it was funny, but I watched three episodes and haven’t gone back.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Tesfa is finally tiring of the episodes on Netflix. She hasn’t asked to watch in weeks.
- How The Grinch Stole Christmas: TV special, not the movie.
- Searching for Sugarman: Geoff: I just heard the craziest thing on the radio about this singer that no one knows here but is super huge in South Africa!
Me: The Sugarman movie?
Geoff: How’d you know about that already?
Me: The radio is behind the times man! Behind the times!
Somewhat relatedly, I have a huge, nonsensical hatred of the radio and anytime I can smack down radio, no matter how tenuous, I must do it. - Timecrimes: Me: I don’t know if the film was believable.
Geoff: You mean the time-travel timelines?
Me: No. I don’t care about that. I just don’t think Spain has enough money to run such an advanced research station. Especially with the Euro crisis.
Geoff: Really? That is your problem with the movie.
Me: I mean, it’s just not realistic. - The Music Man: Tesfa was really into the Flim and Flam episode of My Little Pony, so I thought she’d enjoy this movie. That was a mistake, not because she didn’t enjoy it, but because she sings the songs from the movie all the time now. I learned my lesson. No more musicals.
- The Sopranos: My DVDs do not have subtitles on them and I am forced to listen. Also, the DVDs are like the first DVDs ever made and the menus and the screens and pretty much everything other than watching the actual show is embarrassing because clearly no one had any clue what do with a DVD menu back in 1999.
- peg + cat: New Tesfa show, except there are only twelve episodes, and even if it is a girl and her cat solving math problems, I don’t know how long it is before I got peg + cat crazy. Also, this was a hassle to get and PBS really doesn’t like Canadians giving them money. That’s all I have to say about that.
- From Up On Poppy Hill
- How To Train Your Dragon: I wish there were more girls in this movie, but considering the book has zero, I guess having two or three in the movie is already supposed to be a win for equal rights *sarcasm*
- Troll Hunter: Oh Netflix, you came and you gave me Trollhunter. That almost makes me feel okay about you again after trying to push Homeland on me.
I wrote: My big file of stories all put together. Come From Away revisions. Antrim Nec Time Travel Compliance Officer rough draft. Typed up some faerie story. Basically, exactly what I did last month.