Pretending
By: Holly Bourne
I hate men.
So the novel starts. April goes into far greater detail than I will here but suffice it to say I was a little worried at the start of the book. And I was completely unsure what to expect, as I heard of but never read Holly Bourne before this, and maybe I didn’t get what I thought I would.
But I got a good and interesting read.
Well Lego Emperor Palpatine totally stole the show for me. The Star Wars Holiday special might not have been as out there as the first one (a good thing in my opinion) but it was still a completely amusing hour as Rey goes back in time and the whole timeline collides while Poe tries to plan a party.
My feelings for Dash and Lily the show are not unlike what I feel about the two books. A really good, fun beginning but man I wish there was a reindeer that could have run them both over somewhere between 5 and 6 and leave me with happy memories.
*All holiday films, books and shows will be judged on a Grinch Scale which is basically how much my heart grew, or didn’t, for the event in question. And since I wanted a reindeer to run them over we can all see where this is going.
Spoilers for Episode 3: The Heiress
I do this all the time.
Something or someone gets introduced in a show I enjoy (love) and I can’t help launch my imagination down the road of all the places the story could go and with the arrival of Bo-Katan I’ve been running wild with it!
Plus I mean is The Mandalorian teasing the Starbuck/Gus Fring battle I never knew I wanted?
Friend: What’s your favorite Sean Connery movie?
Me: (Immediately) The Rock.
Friend: Really? The Rock?
*Rewatch
Me: Yep I still love The Rock.
I shall not whine.
I shall not whine.
I shall not whine. I mean it’s only a few more weeks after what we all thought.
It’s non-fiction November usually the happiest (book) time of year!
Okay here’s a confession I used to get non-fiction confused with fiction because naturally I thought non-fiction meant… not true and fiction was true. Obviously I figured that out. Sometime in college I think but otherwise I thought I’d recommend some good not fiction books I’ve read recently.
I am not the biggest fan (understatement) of the holiday romance movie but this new Hulu film Happiest Season actually does sincerely look enjoyable. Plus it’s lovely to see some representation in a holiday romance!
Spoilers Below for Episode 2 The Passenger!
I can’t escape spiders even on an ice planet in a galaxy far, far away. In fact they just made them bigger and Alien like!
And now that I’ve finally seen those movies I get the references. Anyway The Passenger had a giant spider and lots of little spiders (somehow worse than the big one) and no Timothy Olyphant. So yeah I definitely didn’t love this one.
The Camelot Betrayal
By: Kiersten White
On the one hand Guinevere knows she’s a screw-up who often acts irrationally and hurts people so credit for that. But on the other she keeps doing it so I don’t know what to make of her!
