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Artemisia Vulgaris
Aug. 19th, 2020 08:20 pmA big batch of older podcast episodes appeared in my feed this morning. Not sure why, don't really care, and hey, more good stuff to listen to. This afternoon's listen was a couple episodes of How Did This Get Made, and that's always good for laughs.
My emotional health is better now than it's been in a while. Despite a lot of woes in my personal life and the world at large, I'm feeling good about myself. I'm getting some personal work done, reading more, that sort of thing, and all of that is helping.
So, currently I'm reading a Goodreads giveaway, Hurst. I didn't have high expectations for it - it's a self-published Kindle novel, and those are hit-and-miss, to be charitable. This one is coincidentally timely, being set in the aftermath of a global pandemic, and it's turned out to be darned enjoyable. There's nothing especially original in the tale, and I think the cast of characters could be trimmed a little bit, but the writing is just good. It's a fast-moving story with likable heroes and bad villains and sometimes that's just what I want.
On another media front, I started watching HBO's Chernobyl tonight. Forty minutes into the first episode, I'm hooked. I read Midnight in Chernobyl a few weeks ago, so that deeper dive into the disaster and other events besides is still in my head, and it's all mixing together into one huge horrifying narrative. I recommend both.
After a long time away, I'm about to give a monthly comic book a shot. Marvel's launching a new Iron Man volume, and the pitch sounds like the kind of story I want to read. Tony steps away from the world-beating level and gets back into the business of being the armored Avenger. I'm in.
My emotional health is better now than it's been in a while. Despite a lot of woes in my personal life and the world at large, I'm feeling good about myself. I'm getting some personal work done, reading more, that sort of thing, and all of that is helping.
So, currently I'm reading a Goodreads giveaway, Hurst. I didn't have high expectations for it - it's a self-published Kindle novel, and those are hit-and-miss, to be charitable. This one is coincidentally timely, being set in the aftermath of a global pandemic, and it's turned out to be darned enjoyable. There's nothing especially original in the tale, and I think the cast of characters could be trimmed a little bit, but the writing is just good. It's a fast-moving story with likable heroes and bad villains and sometimes that's just what I want.
On another media front, I started watching HBO's Chernobyl tonight. Forty minutes into the first episode, I'm hooked. I read Midnight in Chernobyl a few weeks ago, so that deeper dive into the disaster and other events besides is still in my head, and it's all mixing together into one huge horrifying narrative. I recommend both.
After a long time away, I'm about to give a monthly comic book a shot. Marvel's launching a new Iron Man volume, and the pitch sounds like the kind of story I want to read. Tony steps away from the world-beating level and gets back into the business of being the armored Avenger. I'm in.
