mellicious | February update (Reply)

This started out to be a movie update, but I had so little to say about that that I went on to TV and books, too!

So far this year, Rob and I have seen these movies in a theater:

Spider-Man: No Way Home (twice since January 1st, as well as once in December)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (also one we'd seen in 2021)
Belfast

The usual January movie "desert" was especially lean pickings this year - that's mostly why we went to see Spider-Man so many times! I think there were at least two weeks where we just gave up and stayed home, which is unusual for us! At least the only new-to-us one that we saw (Belfast, that is) was quite good.

Rob has also been to see these without me:

Scream
The Cursed

(He seemed to like The Cursed considerably more than Scream, from what I gathered.)

On TV, we enjoyed The Book of Boba Fett a lot, even if it was a bit uneven. I have also watched a whole lot of Marvel, as usual (Black Widow holds up to repeat viewings much better than I would have expected), and also repeat viewings of Encanto (resulting in a semi-permanent "Bruno" earworm). Rob still watches the news a lot but I have cut back because I find it so depressing. (And he watches a ton of horror movies, mostly when I'm asleep.)

(I've come to think one of the secrets of our going-on-35-year marriage is having schedules that vary enough that each of us can do our own thing while the other one is asleep!)

I've been reading the Cinder series (I guess it's officially The Lunar Chronicles, right?) and re-reading a bunch of other things because I've kind of been in a slump where I can't seem to finish much. I think I've finished a dozen books so far this year that were new to me, but they were mostly short, very easy reading. There's another dozen or more that I started but didn't get very far into - and only a couple that I officially called as DNF. The rest I'll hopefully come back to.