Hi, YouTube, it's Kathy, and this is my Weekly Entertainment Wrap Up for March 26th to April 1st.
This week I read 3 books, I watched 4 tv shows, I watched 1 movie, and listened to 1 book.
First this week, I finished Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library.
As you may know, I work in a public library, and love books about books, so this seemed
like a good, light-hearted fit.
This writer's from the states, but it was interesting to see how similar his experience
was to what I've witnessed in my first year at the library.
Weird things get put in the return slot, pages get paid the least to do whatever they are
told, and school children are vaguely terrifying.
More than anything, the library is for everyone, and it warms my heart to know that the library
is the centre of so many communities.
This week, I also read an advanced reader copy of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
by Matthew [Sullivan], which doesn't come out officially until July.
According to an instruction on Netgalley, I'm not really supposed to publish any reviews
until a couple of weeks before publication, but I can tell you that this book follows
a woman who works in a bookstore and finds one of her favourite patrons dead in the stacks.
From there, the mystery dives into her hidden past.
This book was a page-turner, and the mystery was nice and twisty, so if mysteries are your
thing, I'd definitely look for this in July.
I ended up going into work an hour early on Saturday because my regular shift was moved
up an hour and I'm a creature of habit so I forgot - so I also read Binti by Nnedi Okorafor.
The cover is gorgeous, I'd heard some positive buzz about it, and it has won some
awards, but overall I was unimpressed.
Binti is the first of her kind to be accepted to attend university on a distant planet,
and although her family disapproves, she runs away to follow her dreams.
While in transit, there's a terrible attack, and she is left to fend for herself, with
little likelihood of making it to university or home.
Being a novella, it was only about 90 pages long, and that's fine, but I felt that this
story would have been better if it was flushed out to a full length novel.
This felt very much like an outline to me, and I would have loved to explore more of the world,
and get to know the main character better.
We saw glimpses of her home life, her ambitions, and her talents, but I didn't have enough
time to grow attached to her, which is why this is so forgettable to me.
I do enjoy the concept of a subset of society that basically worships math, but this felt
like the commencement of an idea instead of a finished product.
This week in Private Practice, I watched from Season 2 Episode 13 to Season 3 Episode 9.
This show can be seen as more light hearted than Grey's Anatomy, basically because we're
not digging around on the insides of multiple people per every episode, so I was lulled
into a false sense of security and just assumed the season 2 finale wouldn't crush
my soul, which of course it did.
I'm watching the show on disc from the library, and basically had to leave my house immediately, take
two buses, pick up as many season three discs as possible - fortunately they had the first disc
- and come home and make sure characters were okay.
On the flip side, this week I watched the season 4 finale of The Walking Dead, as well
as the next couple of episodes, and without Netflix telling me that we'd passed into a
new season, I wouldn't have really noticed.
Upon reflecting on the changes for the characters, this division made sense, but since there's
always new threats, there's a feeling of sensory overload and it's harder to get attached
to characters, even though mention of ones who have died do beget watcher sympathy - just
not to the extent of a Shondaland shows.
This week on Survivor, I found myself very upset at one of the castaways, and vaguely
worried about her mental health.
I felt so angry with her, and then I realized I was angry with an actual human.
I'm used to feeling emotions for fictional characters in shows and books, so this flip
into judging people on reality television was kind of mind boggling.
I try not to be judgemental, and here I was, talking about an actual person whose life
I know very little about.
On Friday, I sat on my couch for 12 straight hours and watched every episode
of "Thirteen Reasons Why" - the Netflix series based on the Jay Asher book I read
last week.
I did an unscripted review afterwards, which I posted directly to YouTube,
so if you are interested in that, check it out.
There will be a link down in the description.
My ability to use words other than "definitely" and "interesting" seemed to have been
fried in the process, but overall, I highly recommend this show.
If you missed my last wrap up, Thirteen Reasons Why is about Clay Jensen, who's a high school student
who gets a box of tapes in the mail.
On them, he finds the 13 reasons why Hannah Baker, his high school crush, committed suicide
two weeks previously.
Only people who are on the tapes receive the tapes.
I know some people get upset when any detail changes when something moves from
one medium to another, but I felt all the changes in the adaptation fit for the new medium.
Additionally, Netflix included the classic "the following program contains scenes of
sexual violence" before each applicable episode, which is not something I had seen on that
website prior, and I assume will be appreciated by those who have been affected by assault
in the past.
One of the best things about this adaptation was that you got to see the back story
of many characters, and you actually got to see Hannah's parents.
YA novels are notorious for ignoring the existence of parents,
so it was fascinating to have this representation
Kate Walsh was an amazing choice for Hannah's mom.
She brought so much emotion and heart to every episode.
Aaaand the one movie I watched this week was Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and it
was adorable, and as always, Colleen Atwood definitely deserved her Oscar for costume design.
I've just come to realize that "definitely" is my um word; instead of going um, I use
"definitely".
It was nice to dig back into the wizarding world, and I feel like everything that could
be said about this movie has already been said, so I went into it just intending to
enjoy my viewing.
I enjoy watching things through a critical lense, but sometimes you just want to view
something passively.
This is also what tends to happen when you're with a couple of other people and you're
chatting as the movie is going on.
This week I listened to Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye.
This is the second book in the Timothy Wilde series, which takes place in 1840's New York.
Timothy is a copper star, and is wrapped up in a new mystery when a woman reports her
family is missing.
Through this, Timothy finds out a whole slew of racist laws that make it difficult for people to
to keep or have their freedom.
The family in question is white passing, but black birders from the south - who are people
that are paid to track down escaped slaves and return them their masters
- try to claim that they are property.
Through having Tim learn these injustices, I am also getting a more full picture of systematic bias.
Lyndsay Faye's writing is intensely descriptive, Stephen Boyer is a wonderful narrator, once
again giving each character their own voice, and I am very excited for the third in this trilogy.
That's it for this week.
This week, I want to try something a little different, and have you tell me what you're reading currently,
or what you've read recently and you think that I would enjoy.
Let me know down in the comments below.
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would be very nice of you.
You can also like and share this as you see fit, and I will see you next time. Bye!
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