Did I mention I seemed to have lost my blogging mojo? I do have some mojito mint, haven’t lost that. Yet. We are under a freeze advisory for tonight (I can’t remember the last time it felt this cold this late in April).
Anyway, I did promise a post a few days back about what I’ve been reading and watching so here it is.
Reading
I really need to be doing more of this! If you want to follow along with what I’m reading, I do have a Goodreads profile. Usually don’t write too many book reviews unless I absolutely love or hate a book. And I tend to be generous with my star ratings.
Lately, I’ve been on a Chris Pavone kick. Honestly, I’m not sure why. His books aren’t all that great but they do entertain me. Something about them is just complicated enough I can’t breeze through them. That said I sometimes skip big chunks of them as well. Not a great endorsement and yet here I am currently reading his book titled The Travelers.
Just finished one called Finders Keepers by Stephen King, well-written as always. This is the second in the Mr. Mercedes trilogy. So far these books are more real world type scary than monster under the bed type scary.
When I need a light escape type reading, I turn to Donna Ashcroft, Daisy James, or Alison Sherlock. And Alison Sherlock’s new series start Heading Home To Lavender Cottage did not disappoint me. I’m ready to move to the Cranbridge/Cranfield area.
TV, Too Much
Been watching too much tv lately. I go through spells. Hardly watch it and then, THEN. So much viewing. Too much viewing. Doesn’t help that we have too many streaming services! So, that’s how I’m dividing things.
Sort Of Regular TV
Regular TV: Masked Singer always, Next Level Chef, most of the time, and Just Call Me Kat, The Voice, FBI, and Animal Control, when I happen to catch them
Peacock App: My husband and I have been watching Top Chef, season 20 and Last Chance Kitchen. I’m enjoying this season as it’s chefs from around the world. He also watched Cocaine Bear on there. I caught the very end. (We also watch Saturday Night Live on this sometime on Sundays as we can rarely stay awake long enough on Saturday nights)
Streaming Services I Watch Rarely
AMC+: Decided I was ready to face the zombies again. Over the past 2 days, I binge-watched Walking Dead, The World Beyond. (Direct quote from our house: I can call my show stupid, but you can’t call my show stupid while I’m watching it!). Also watched a short one called Fear The Walking Dead: Dead in the Water. I think it would’ve made a better prequel series than the actual Fear The Walking Dead. (Still need to catch up on that one)
Discovery+: (Have you heard they are merging this with HBO max? And renaming it MAX? Bad marketing name but I’m excited to have one less streaming service to worry with). Each Monday, I watch The Spring Baking Championship on this one. And last night I started watching one called Ciao House.
Regular Streaming Services
Netflix: We recently watched both Night Agent and The Recruit. Good fairly short bingeable tv shows. Husband liked Night Agent better but I preferred The Recruit.
HBOmax: My one episode a week of the David Tennant series of Dr. Who, I’m up to Martha Jones as his companion. And I’m excited that my favorite dark comedy has finally returned for its season 4, Barry. It’s so good but definitely not for kids!
Apple TV plus: Ted Lasso, of course! And then, I’ve watched the Tetris movie, so good. Highly recommend for any gamers but even as a non-gamer I really enjoyed it. The Big Door Prize is different, a bit more drama than comedy or rather perhaps it needs its own absurd category. Also, watching Shrinking a bit, struggling to get into it. And finally, I started watching The Last Thing He Told Me. Read the book a while back and loved it. So far, the show is true to the book so very good. And I’m waiting for the release of Lessons in Chemistry, another show from a book I read and absolutely loved.
Today, since it’s a bit too cold to do outdoor things, I’m probably going to watch the Ghosted movie on there although I think it looks a bit dumb.
Oh how I need the weather to turn warm and sunny again!
Have you read/watched anything interesting lately?
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I’m struggling again with reading, just can’t focus and end up grabbing my phone instead.
We don’t have any streaming services because our rural internet can’t handle it. We record some shows (hubby more than me) and I’ve rewatched some things like White Queen, White Princess, and Spanish Princess. I’m going to start rewatching Becoming Elizabeth now since I saved it on the DVR. I watched a fun little movie today called The Kid Who Would Be King. TV shows I watch regularly are Ghosts, The Connors, The Young & The Restless, and true crime shows. Cable shows I love that are on break right now are Last of Us, and House of the Dragon.
Have you heard of a series called Cruel Summer, from a couple years ago? That’s finally getting a second season. I’m curious enough that I’ll watch it but I’m sure it won’t compare to how great the first season was. And the second season of the creepy show called From starts tomorrow but it’s on a channel we don’t get so we’ll have to hope for a freebie weekend. That’s how we stumbled across the first season last year.
I read on my phone! Ha. Actually, there is a kindle app for the phone and it’s actually really helped me to read more. I read while I’m waiting on my son’s activities or at night before bed (no light needed). Not sure but I think our house might fall apart with no streaming services. Our budget would greatly improve though. I’ve caught Ghosts before and enjoyed it. My oldest keeps trying to get me to watch The Last of Us. My husband likes all the king/queen type shows but they’re not really my thing unless he’s watching and then, I like to bug him with a million questions 😉 Hopefully, the weather improves soon and we can be outside instead of watching tv so much. Hope you are having a great week so far!
I think I’m thrown the towel on Blog365 – I just can’t keep up. I’m going to aim for three posts/week instead of 7 I think. We will see. Thanks for the TV recommendations though! I am always looking for new stuff to watch.
Oh no, I hope you don’t give up! I think we need to both give ourselves permission for shorter posts. However, I also think 3 posts a week is great if that works for you as well. Hope you have a great new week!