hermionesviolin | culture consumed (February, 2022)

books

[feminist sci-fi/fantasy book club] Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson (thanks to skygiants here)
2 more worry/anxiety picturebooks
[middle grade] Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith -- a contemporary retelling/expansion of the Peter Pan story, with Native voices
P. Djèlí Clark's novella The Haunting of Tram Car 015 [third in the Dead Djinn universe -- does not feature Fatma] and short story "The Angel of Khan el-Khalili" [second in that universe, doesn't feature any Ministry employees]
7 other picturebooks -- including Love, Violet, which is a delightful story of 7-year-old girls ~in love~
the first 2 novellas in Nghi Vo's Singing Hills Cycle series: The Empress of Salt and Fortune and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain -- which, like Clark's Dead Djinn series, stand alone

Thom wanted to (re)watch Ted Lasso with me, and so far we've watched episodes 1-4
We watched episodes 2+3 right after each other. With everything that happened in episode 2, I only watched episode 3 because I had been reliably informed (by Thom) that this show tends to set up but then undercut tropey expectations. Episode 3 was really good, and I felt kind of like, "Okay, I can just stop here, before anything bad happens," but episode 4 was also good.

movies

(finally) Encanto with Thom -- "Maybe your Gift is denial."
Love and Leashes -- a Korean femdom romcom(?) on Netflix (thanks, Twitter) with Thom -- "Why would you throw away a coupon?"

music

Thom, about a week ago:
Sarah came home this weekend to see K.Flay on Saturday and Billie Eilish on Sunday. I was already familiar with Billie, obviously, but K.Flay was new to me.

Anyway, I have a favorite K.Flay song, now.
K.Flay - Maybe There's A Way (Official Audio)
This weekend, Thom was on a local music venue website and saw that Nora Jane Struthers was playing Sunday night, so they played me their favorite song of hers ("The Baker's Boy") and then, because of who I am as a person, "Bike Ride."