30/2022 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One of a series of books looking at the behind-the-scenes design work for various ships in the Star Trek universe. If you’re into this sort of thing, you know. 🖖
Geekery
Whatever I’m geeking out about at the time.
📚 Star Trek Designing Starships: Voyager and Beyond
29/2022 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One of a series of books looking at the behind-the-scenes design work for various ships in the Star Trek universe. If you’re into this sort of thing, you know. 🖖
📚 Star Trek Designing Starships: Deep Space Nine and Beyond
28/2022 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One of a series of books looking at the behind-the-scenes design work for various ships in the Star Trek universe. If you’re into this sort of thing, you know. 🖖
📚 Star Trek Designing Starships: The Enterprises and Beyond
27/2022 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One of a series of books looking at the behind-the-scenes design work for various ships in the Star Trek universe. If you’re into this sort of thing, you know. 🖖
🎥 Red Notice
Red Notice (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️: A perfect Sunday afternoon bit of lighthearted silliness. Ryan Reynolds and The Rock play their very comfortable default characters, and Gal Godot looks gorgeous while playing the two men off of each other. Funny, with entertaining action set pieces, and absolutely nothing that will greatly engage the brain. Just what we were in the mood for.
🎥 Spider-Man: No Way Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: I really enjoyed this one, and am quite impressed that not only did they give the trilogy of Tom Holland Spider-Man movies a satisfying end (well, as much as these storylines ever end), but they also managed to give satisfying arcs and endings to both of the prior Spider-Men and their various foes. It’s an impressive bit of multidimensional storytelling, especially given that neither of the prior incarnations had anything like this in mind. Very nicely done.
📚 Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
26/2022 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1979 Hugo Best Novel
Neat tale of a woman traveling across a far-future post-apocalyptic earth, healing others with the help of her snakes while searching for an alien snake to assist her, and finding more people to help along the way. Adventuresome, but quiet, with some interesting hints at the wider world that go unanswered as the story unfolds. Really enjoyed the (somewhat groundbreaking at the time, apparently) feminist reworking of the hero’s journey, where conflict is solved by caring and healing rather than combat.
📚 Smut Peddler Presents: Sordid Past edited by Andrea Purcell
25/2022 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This latest in the Smut Peddler series of erotic comic anthologies continues the fine form of its predecessors: fun, cute, sweet, funny, sexy short tales of people getting it on in various combinations, with just as much plot as any self respecting porn needs (in other words, more than is commonly joked about, but not so much as to overwhelm the main event). As always, nicely inclusive of gender, sexuality, and body types, this collection sets all of its tales in historical ages, from just a few decades to hundreds of years ago.
📚 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
24/2022 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Funny, sweet, and a bit of a tearjerker towards the end (you can see it coming, but that doesn’t diminish its impact at all).
🎥 The Tragedy of MacBeth
The Tragedy of MacBeth (2021): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Absolutely beautiful version. The crisp high-contrast black-and-white cinematography (in Academy ratio, even) and geometric stageplay-like sets keep the eye engaged throughout. So many gorgeous shots.