Key: Books, Videogames, Music, Movies, Television
Key: Books, Videogames, Music, Movies, Television
This is far from the first time I've watched Gilmore Girls, its been a staple for me since late highschool. Gilmore Girls feels like a warm comfortable blanket when everything sucks, especially season one. The love interest plot lines are predictable but extremely satisfying, the generational trauma (mommy issues) represented are accurate enough to bring you to tears, and Rory's coming-of-age moments are perfectly bittersweet.
02.31.26
I knew going into reading the book that I would want to watch the movie right after. There's a lot of differences, but the movie holds up. The soundtrack is great, the way it's shot is beautiful, and it stays true to the heart of the story mostly (I think taking the communication lapse out of the second half of the plot is a little lame). I feel like the visual storytelling of Mark getting scrawnier and collecting bruises as the movie goes along added a new/extra sense of urgency.
01.24.26
The Martian is a real-science science fiction novel that follows astronaut Mark Watney after he has been stranded alone on Mars after a catastrophic dust storm forces the Ares 3 team to abort their research mission. At first glance Watney's situation seems fully impossible to survive but between his botany and engineering skills and the combined efforts of America and China's space programs there just might be a real chance he can make it back home.
This book had been on my mental to-be-read list since I heard about the movie when it came out. I'm a fool for waiting so long to read it, this book gave me basically everything I want in a sci-fi book. The way Weir breaks the science down is very accessible for the average science enthusiast in my opinion, which I really appreciate. For me, that keeps the read from feeling too much like reading a textbook. I also was surprised how natural and real the plot unfolds while staying away from becoming super predictable. This was another book I genuinely did not want to put down; at all times I needed to know what was going to happen to Watney next.
01.23.26
YWMTBH is an intense body horror/survival novel that follows Crane, an autistic trans guy, who has joined an alien hive in a desperate search for a place of acceptance in a world that has always felt unbareable. Life with the hive is as close as it can be to good for Crane until the hive learns that he's pregnant. The hive demands that Crane carry the pregnacy to term despite Crane's life-long repulsion and horror at the idea of pregnancy. Crane's insistence and willingness to make it all stop destroys not only the hive community, but parts of himself as well.
I was ready to not like this book because honestly it's just been a while since I read something I REALLY enjoyed and couldn't put down. I was fully expecting another whiff, but I was SO wrong. White does an incredible job of showing what it's like to feel not made for this earth. To feel trapped and betrayed by your body and 'community'. This book is deeply sick and grotesque, but it does it so fucking well.
01.20.26
The Mist is a short suspense/horror story that revolves around a father and son who wind up stuck in a grocery store with a wide cast of volitile extras while a supernatural fog full of unknown threats keeps them trapped inside.
This book was selected by my bookclub, but I don't care for Stephen King at all so I really debated on whether I was going to read it or not. After realizing the audiobook was only 5ish hours, I decided to go for it. Overall, I really didn't enjoy it. This whole book screams 'I was wrote on a coke bender'. It's painfully obvious throughout how much King hates women, theres barely any plot, and it reads like a creative writing assignment of a teen boy.
01.17.26