December Recap
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sleepypapercrownsHappy new year everyone! Let’s talk about my December recap.
Movies
- Knives Out (2019, murder mystery)
- Glass Onion (2022, murder mystery)
- Enola Holmes 1 (2020, mystery)
- Enola Holmes 2 (2022, mystery)
As approximately every other person on the internet, I also watched Glass Onion this month. Earlier in the month I re-watched Knives Out too and then again with my mom after we had seen Glass Onion. The sad thing about watching Glass Onion with my mom was that we watched the German dub and somehow they didn’t bother giving Blanc a funky accent. I felt robbed! On the other hand it was so fun to watch with her because we were paying close attention and at times stopped the movie to speculate on what was going on. All in all, I must say that I still like the first one more, maybe because of the setting or because the theme of idiot rich pretend tech bro is a bit too close to current times and too annoying to me personally. My mom however enjoyed the mystery in the second one more and I wonder if the order we watched it in affected her enjoyment.
As established in a previous recap, I am not much of a movie watcher. However I read about Enola Holmes onlatespring’s november recap and was intrigued! Boy, did it deliver!! I was kicking my feet and squealing and also just plain delighted at Henry Cavill as Sherlock. What a fun time I had! Millie Bobby Brown is a very charming actress, too, and that came across so well through all the 4th wall breaks.
Shows
I have not, in fact, continued any of the shows that I mentioned last month. Whoops!
Books
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (2020, ya fantasy)
- Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (2021, contemporary lit/ magical realism)
- What You Can See From Here by Mariana Leky translated by Tess Lewis (2017, contemporary lit)
I checked out Legendborn from the library on a whim and positively flew through it. It’s about a girl who recently lost her mother in an accident and starts to discover magic at the early education college she flees to. We cover themes of racism and grief and how Brie navigates those on top of being thrown into this tournament to be a part of a secret Arthurian society. This is the point where I admit that I do not know a lot about Arthurian myth and was therefore severely lost throughout much of the infodumping (of which there was quite a lot). Some parts of the story were extremely slow, with a lot of explaining of the magic, the society and everything else under the sun that needed explaining and then we’d get a couple of extremely snappy chapters. It balanced itself out in the end and therefore the book was chronically readable. Another thing that was super enjoyable and honestly made me squeal was the romance arc! The love interest is super charming and the two of them together are just incredibly cute.
Well, Nightbitch sure was something. I started it in June/July(?) and only finished it at the end of the year because this book made me SO ANGRY. And not in the sense that it was a bad book but simply because the misogyny that was portrayed made me fucking livid. Livid! I was clenching my teeth throughout the whole first half!! You might want to know what it is about: it’s about an unnamed mother whose husband is gone for work during the week, who has a small child she takes care of all on her own and who gave up her job because of that. Oh well, and then she turns into a dog. I don’t really know what else to say about this book besides quoting a great review I found on StoryGraph: “Bizarre?”
What You Can See From Here was the pick for Allison Paiges’ book club that she hosts on her patreon/discord. It was originally published in German so I asked my mom if she’d want to read this book with me! We were both intrigued by the premise - every time Selma dreams of an okapi someone dies within the next 24 hours - but we’re quite disappointed with what the book turned out to be. I guessed who was going to die, my mom was so angry about it she threatened to dnf the book. Mind you this was about 80-100 pages in and then we never hear about okapis again?? I was baffled by the progression the story took from part one onwards up towards a point at the end where we skip around multiple years by getting half a page for every passing birthday. It did have some relatable and heartfelt content about anxiety, depression and grief but other than that I was sadly disappointed.
Fic
Soo, I have somehow read almost 100k more fic than last month? That’s bonkers! And I would’ve never known if I hadn’t started tracking it. That’s so fun! In December I have read 235k of fic and here are some of my favourites in no particular order:
- @heyitsspiderman by meggannn (spiderman: into the spiderverse)
- Law of Probability by rhythmsextion (skz, chan/changbin, jisung/hyunjin)
- to have and to hold by meloncafe (skz, hyunjin/seungmin)
- Please Don’t Bite by merryofsoul (txt, soobin/yeonjun)
- See the End by ninamonday (svt, joshua/jeonghan)
I was just about to type that I am so late with my recap but it is quite literally the 6th of January. This year has felt like 3 years already! Anyway, thanks for reading!
Movies
- Knives Out (2019, murder mystery)
- Glass Onion (2022, murder mystery)
- Enola Holmes 1 (2020, mystery)
- Enola Holmes 2 (2022, mystery)
As approximately every other person on the internet, I also watched Glass Onion this month. Earlier in the month I re-watched Knives Out too and then again with my mom after we had seen Glass Onion. The sad thing about watching Glass Onion with my mom was that we watched the German dub and somehow they didn’t bother giving Blanc a funky accent. I felt robbed! On the other hand it was so fun to watch with her because we were paying close attention and at times stopped the movie to speculate on what was going on. All in all, I must say that I still like the first one more, maybe because of the setting or because the theme of idiot rich pretend tech bro is a bit too close to current times and too annoying to me personally. My mom however enjoyed the mystery in the second one more and I wonder if the order we watched it in affected her enjoyment.
As established in a previous recap, I am not much of a movie watcher. However I read about Enola Holmes on
latespring’s november recap and was intrigued! Boy, did it deliver!! I was kicking my feet and squealing and also just plain delighted at Henry Cavill as Sherlock. What a fun time I had! Millie Bobby Brown is a very charming actress, too, and that came across so well through all the 4th wall breaks. Shows
I have not, in fact, continued any of the shows that I mentioned last month. Whoops!
Books
- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (2020, ya fantasy)
- Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (2021, contemporary lit/ magical realism)
- What You Can See From Here by Mariana Leky translated by Tess Lewis (2017, contemporary lit)
I checked out Legendborn from the library on a whim and positively flew through it. It’s about a girl who recently lost her mother in an accident and starts to discover magic at the early education college she flees to. We cover themes of racism and grief and how Brie navigates those on top of being thrown into this tournament to be a part of a secret Arthurian society. This is the point where I admit that I do not know a lot about Arthurian myth and was therefore severely lost throughout much of the infodumping (of which there was quite a lot). Some parts of the story were extremely slow, with a lot of explaining of the magic, the society and everything else under the sun that needed explaining and then we’d get a couple of extremely snappy chapters. It balanced itself out in the end and therefore the book was chronically readable. Another thing that was super enjoyable and honestly made me squeal was the romance arc! The love interest is super charming and the two of them together are just incredibly cute.
Slight spoiler:
I saw the love triangle coming from a mile away, but if this doesn’t end in lovers to enemies and enemies to lovers I WILL throw a fit.Well, Nightbitch sure was something. I started it in June/July(?) and only finished it at the end of the year because this book made me SO ANGRY. And not in the sense that it was a bad book but simply because the misogyny that was portrayed made me fucking livid. Livid! I was clenching my teeth throughout the whole first half!! You might want to know what it is about: it’s about an unnamed mother whose husband is gone for work during the week, who has a small child she takes care of all on her own and who gave up her job because of that. Oh well, and then she turns into a dog. I don’t really know what else to say about this book besides quoting a great review I found on StoryGraph: “Bizarre?”
What You Can See From Here was the pick for Allison Paiges’ book club that she hosts on her patreon/discord. It was originally published in German so I asked my mom if she’d want to read this book with me! We were both intrigued by the premise - every time Selma dreams of an okapi someone dies within the next 24 hours - but we’re quite disappointed with what the book turned out to be. I guessed who was going to die, my mom was so angry about it she threatened to dnf the book. Mind you this was about 80-100 pages in and then we never hear about okapis again?? I was baffled by the progression the story took from part one onwards up towards a point at the end where we skip around multiple years by getting half a page for every passing birthday. It did have some relatable and heartfelt content about anxiety, depression and grief but other than that I was sadly disappointed.
Fic
Soo, I have somehow read almost 100k more fic than last month? That’s bonkers! And I would’ve never known if I hadn’t started tracking it. That’s so fun! In December I have read 235k of fic and here are some of my favourites in no particular order:
- @heyitsspiderman by meggannn (spiderman: into the spiderverse)
- Law of Probability by rhythmsextion (skz, chan/changbin, jisung/hyunjin)
- to have and to hold by meloncafe (skz, hyunjin/seungmin)
- Please Don’t Bite by merryofsoul (txt, soobin/yeonjun)
- See the End by ninamonday (svt, joshua/jeonghan)
I was just about to type that I am so late with my recap but it is quite literally the 6th of January. This year has felt like 3 years already! Anyway, thanks for reading!
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