Media Round Up: 2025 so far
Jan. 10th, 2025 10:00 amThanks for all your kind and thoughtful responses to my post about reading joyfully. I’m going to try to post occasional updates on that as part of these media round-ups. I’ve been experimenting with doing things other than reading in my non-screen winding down before bed time, it's a bit hard to find non-reading things that are ok for my hands though. Anyways given I’ve been reading a bit less this post is mostly dramas.
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libitina saw this on a list of currently airing shows and thought it was the kind of thing I would enjoy. She was correct! Keep Running is a Chinese travel variety show with a lot of seasons that I’ve been thinking about checking out but wasn’t sure where to start. This special season is about a group of people retracing the Tea Horse Road, so it’s got bits of fun history and tea. (content note: weight loss/diet culture)
The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q by Felicia Davin—Sequel to The Scandalous Letters of V and J. It’s been a bit since I read a book then read a couple of other things before reading the sequel, but I used to do that a lot and it's nice. Reading everything at once can be too much but if there's too long a gap between books I forget too much.
This book was as charming as the first one. In the tradition of romance series this focuses on a different set of people than the first book, most of whom were characters in the first book. I liked all of them and was happy to get to know them! And it was nice to see the characters from previous books here as well.
Woodwitch by Skye McKenna— Sequel to Hedgewitch, read out loud to the kid. A solid MG british fantasy book
Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung ep 1-15—I’m really enjoying this! It’s got my beloved young woman trying to succeed at a historically masculine job trope! The ML is princess coded and that's delightful! He’s my favorite character which I wouldn’t have expected.
This is the first time I’ve watched a Korean drama. I usually try to save my limited TV watching for Mandarin language stuff. Also the episodes tend to be really long. However it’s kinda neat to see what’s similar and different to the Chinese dramas I’ve watched. Like the way the court works. (I’m still sneaking a little language practice in because they write in classical Chinese)
Content note: smallpox plague, child death, suicide
Soul Sisters ep 1-7—Cute baihe-ish mini drama, the subtitles are machine translated and bad, but I was worried that this would get taken down. But now there’s a project to make better subtitles so I might wait to watch the rest.
Keep Running Special Season ep 1 —
libitina saw this on a list of currently airing shows and thought it was the kind of thing I would enjoy. She was correct! Keep Running is a Chinese travel variety show with a lot of seasons that I’ve been thinking about checking out but wasn’t sure where to start. This special season is about a group of people retracing the Tea Horse Road, so it’s got bits of fun history and tea. (content note: weight loss/diet culture) The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q by Felicia Davin—Sequel to The Scandalous Letters of V and J. It’s been a bit since I read a book then read a couple of other things before reading the sequel, but I used to do that a lot and it's nice. Reading everything at once can be too much but if there's too long a gap between books I forget too much.
This book was as charming as the first one. In the tradition of romance series this focuses on a different set of people than the first book, most of whom were characters in the first book. I liked all of them and was happy to get to know them! And it was nice to see the characters from previous books here as well.
Woodwitch by Skye McKenna— Sequel to Hedgewitch, read out loud to the kid. A solid MG british fantasy book
Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung ep 1-15—I’m really enjoying this! It’s got my beloved young woman trying to succeed at a historically masculine job trope! The ML is princess coded and that's delightful! He’s my favorite character which I wouldn’t have expected.
This is the first time I’ve watched a Korean drama. I usually try to save my limited TV watching for Mandarin language stuff. Also the episodes tend to be really long. However it’s kinda neat to see what’s similar and different to the Chinese dramas I’ve watched. Like the way the court works. (I’m still sneaking a little language practice in because they write in classical Chinese)
Content note: smallpox plague, child death, suicide
Soul Sisters ep 1-7—Cute baihe-ish mini drama, the subtitles are machine translated and bad, but I was worried that this would get taken down. But now there’s a project to make better subtitles so I might wait to watch the rest.
