Media consumption

[jennaria]

Books: The Lunar Chronicles, of which I've finished CINDER (how was that an ending! Raaar!) and begun SCARLET. The problem is that they're due back at the library tomorrow. Guess I'm going to find out exactly how quickly I can read, and exactly how invested I am in this series.

TV shows: still working our way through Usagi Drop (which is still all kinds of adorable) and Miracle Train (which gets increasing points for explicitly not resolving all its ladies' problems into a forced happy ending). Also started watching White Rabbit Project on Netflix, which is fun in a 'I can have it on the TV while working on counted cross stitch' sort of way, but also very, mmm, surface-y.

Video games: Played through an entire level of LEGO STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (which was hard enough that we had to resort to a walk-through to figure out what we were doing), and then our PS3 decided to freeze up and not save any of that. Boo! Boo I say! We're enjoying the game, but boo!

Comments

[kalloway]

I have Cinder on my library list and will get to it eventually. Aside from the ending, how is it?

[jennaria]

YA steampunk (EDIT: or maybe cyberpunk? Cinder is part cyborg) retelling of Cinderella, and I enjoyed it but not, I think, as much as my wife did. There's a certain vibe I tend to get off YA SF/fantasy novels, which is sometimes like catnip to my id and sometimes frustrating, and it's dependent as much or more on my mood as it is on the actual book or the writing thereof. I'm enjoying SCARLET (the sequel) while I'm reading, but I put it down easily, if that makes sense.

[kalloway]

iirc, I'd come across it mentioned as 'cyborg fairytales in space', or possibly more vague. I've bounced off a lot of YA over the last few years, but fallen for others that just hit me in the id at the right time (first couple Raven Cycle books, for sure).

I'll give it a shot once I've whittled down the pile of books I have out right now.