On Sunday O and I (and cousin D, who joined us at the last minute) went to see Deadpool & Wolverine. Two movies in theaters in two months after 2.5 years of not going to a movie theater at all -- amazing XD The benefit of seeing a movie a month after it came out is that there were like 10 people in our theater, and at first nobody but us in our ( Read more... )

4. Steven Brust, Good Guys -- this is an urban fantasy standalone, and it's pretty good? But like everything by Brust that I read which is not Dragaera, it makes me realize that while I pretty much always end up respecting and appreciating the way Brust writes things -- the negative-space storytelling, the dialogue-heavy prose, characters who are ( Read more... )

I decided to try to read through some of the Hugo-nominated graphic novels, since that's a thing I can really only read in paper copy, and by browsing the library's GN shelf ended up going down a rabbit hole, kind of:

10. Serenity: Better Days (Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews, art by Will Conrad) -- this was cute! It's set presumably between the ( Read more... )