Media Round Up: Shelter in Place Media

[forestofglory]

Well I have not been reading or watching much of anything recently. I've just found it very hard to focus on anything new. But I have consumed a little bit, and I don't want to let too much time go by between round ups.

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo-- I got a little bit of focus back so I thought I’d try reading a novella. This is maybe a bit more complex than I wanted. There’s frame story about a cleric recording items, and the main story is about an Empress. I love the attention to material details this set up gives us! This was very beautiful, but I did struggle a bit to have enough focus to read it.

Star Trek: Voyager For a while N was having a very hard time at bedtime, and of course she’s home all day so we were not really able to watch this. But that seems to be resolved for now, so we’ve been watching again. We finished season 5!

Animal Crossing: New Horizons -- R has a switch and got this game for himself, but the whole household has been playing it. We share an island so R gets all the main quests and the rest of us just wander around and gather things. But it's fun and mostly relaxing except when I have to stop the kid from stealing all my flowers.

Silver Spoon by Hiromu Arakawa I finished my reread and got all the way through volume 13. This is so good! I’m sad that there are only going to be two more volumes. After we got through the 1st year of arcultural school time started going by really fast which confused me a little, but it is otherwise excellent. The food here makes me hungry a lot!

Comments

[isis]

I feel you on the focus thing.

[forestofglory]

Ugh, I'm sorry its getting to you too

[naye]

I want to read more Silver Spoon! I've only watched the anime, so I haven't seen the story past the time skip (I think).

[forestofglory]

It continues to be really good! I think its all available in Japanese now but the last two volumes aren't out in English yet. (That means I have another reread to look forward to at some point)

[lunabee34]

Man I love Voyager; glad you've been able to watch again.

[forestofglory]

Me,too!

(Besides we've decided to wait on watching Picard until we finish Voyager so that is giving me extra incentive to watch)

[lunabee34]

Nice idea!

I can't wait to watch Picard. It looks so good to me.

[forestofglory]

I think Picard will be fun. I've enjoyed several of Michel Chabon's books so it will be interesting to see what he does with Trek. though I do wish as writer that he was better at female characters, but hopefully working with other writers will help. And I'm very excited to see an older Seven, because I love her so much.

[lunabee34]

I've never read him, but Josh has enjoyed at least one of his novels.

I love Seven so much. I literally squeed when I saw she's in it. And I can't wait to see Riker and Troi.

[merit]

I've been struggling to focus to read as well - even though I want to read The Empress of Salt and Fortune! I've resorted to more comfort reads to carry me through. That and non-fiction which oddly I can zoom through faster than fiction.

[forestofglory]

I have been very slowly reading a memoir, which I didn't mention here. So yeah sometimes non-fiction is easier to read.

[torachan]

Oh wow, I just checked Amazon Japan and the final volume of Silver Spoon finally came out in February! It's been three years since volume fourteen so I was wondering if it was just going to be on infinite hiatus.

[forestofglory]

Wow, I didn't realize the gap had been so long!