hermionesviolin: one autumn leaf on the sidewalk (autumn)
Elizabeth (the delinquent, ecumenical) ([personal profile] hermionesviolin) wrote2018-11-01 10:47 am
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culture consumed (October, 2018)

books
  • 9 books for adults/teens:
    • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
    • There There by Tommy Orange
    • Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
    • Criptiques ed. Caitlin Wood
    • Protecting Our Kids?: How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us by Emily Horowitz
    • Wonder Woman. Vol. 6, Children of the Gods by James Robinson
    • Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (feminist sci-fi bookclub) & its prequel The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
    • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (young adult)
  • 19 picturebooks, including:

live theatre
  • ASP's Macbeth in a modern verse translation by Migdalia Cruz
  • ASP's Equivocation by Bill Cain -- imagines Shakespeare commissioned to write a play about the failed Gunpowder Plot

tv
  • finished S2 of Marvel's Luke Cage on Netflix [2.10-2.13]
  • caught up on The Good Place (last 2 episodes of S1 and all 13 episodes of S2, plus all of S3 that has aired so far -- 3.01-3.05)
  • the new Charmed [I'm up to date: 1.01-1.03]
  • the first 2 episodes of the new Sabrina on Netflix [The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 1.01-1.02]

movies
  • Sony/Marvel's Venom (twice)

music
  • We Are the Halluci Nation by A Tribe Called Red
  • Last night's Frida Kahlo class was about Mexican music, so we watched a lot of YouTube and now I have a favorite conductor: Alondra de la Parra