Thoughts on Some Recent Media

[forestofglory]

Here's some thoughts on some of the media I've consumed recently:

*I saw a play! It was Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman and the Berkeley Rep! Its a play based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, so Roman myth, preformed with a pool. I'd seen this once before about 20 years ago but forgotten a lot. Anyways it was really good, I loved how the stories flowed together and how they used the water, but rather darker than I remembered.

*I'm still reading and enjoying Fruits Basket. I think I'm about at the point where I stopped reading years ago.

*R and I have been watching a little bit of Stargate (SG1). The pilot was not great, but he's been he's picked a few good episodes form the 1st season that I've enjoyed so far. I last one featured a kickass older woman scientist which was nice. Which also watched the 1st few episodes of netflix's Carmen San Diego, which was very pretty. But it didn't really grab either of us.

*I have ton of things out from the library just now. A lot of it is Fruits Basket, but there's also some other Manga, a few graphic novels, the most recent trade of Squirrel Girl, and couple of YA books I want to try to read before nominations close for the Lodestar.

*I've only got three stories left on in my 2018 short fiction TBR.

What are you reading and watching? Seen any live performances lately

Comments

[owlmoose]

For live theater, I saw Come From Away last month and it was so, so wonderful. It's a 9/11 story, but it's not really about 9/11 and more about how people came together to help each other afterwards. And much of it was in the style of Newfoundland folk music. I highly recommend it.

[forestofglory]

That sounds amazing!

[alchimie]

I am extremely fond of Fruits Basket -- I hope you continue to enjoy it!

[forestofglory]

I'm still enjoying it quite a lot but I need the person who has checked out the last two volumes to return them to the library so I can finish!

[alchimie]

Fingers crossed that they do soon! The first time I read it, it had only been released through volume 19, and by the time the series was all available I had lost enough details that I decided to wait and read it all over again from the beginning, which was worthwhile but it was a long wait until I had the time for that.

[forestofglory]

I actually read the being of Fruits Basket years ago but forgot about it when I went off to uni. I'm excited that I can finish it now. (well when my fellow library patron gets their act together anyway.)