I’m back talking about all the books I read and movies and shows I watched in Janurary 2024.
I just realised I haven’t posted on my blog in over 6 months, which is a long time and I missed it, but also felt like I needed to take time away. But now I’m back because I bought myself a new computer which is so much faster at editing and uploading so that has taken away a lot of the stress of creating content.
So I recently decided to start watching Star Trek, and let me just say I am obsessed!!!!!!!!
I started off with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds because it's the newest series, and the colourful and fun ads on TikTok (bravo to the Paramount + Social team) made me cave in and subscribe to Paramount + despite being annoyed at the existence of yet another streaming platform!
Let me just say that it took less than 5 mins for me to be hooked!
Then I had to go back to Star Trek: The Original Series because I love the 1960s and the vibe of sci-fi from that era - I'm sure I talk about Retro Futurism all the time. I love the campness, the costumes, the philosophical discussions, Spock's particular brand of sarcasm, Captain Kirk's weird fighting style and the random ways his uniform gets destroyed while everyone else comes off rather fine! I love Uhura; Nichelle Nicols was an icon!!!!!
So it's fair to say that I am fast becoming a Trekkie, and I can't wait to watch all the rest of the TV shows and the Movies!
LoveStar by Andri Snær Magnason is a weird and wacky Sci-Fi novel translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
The book follows a couple, Indri and Sigrid, who love each other desperately until they are calculated apart by an algorithm (think Tinder but without free will), as well as the enigmatic LoveStar (CEO of LoveStar) as he searches for answers after commercializing literally everything in human existence (well there about anyways).
LoveStar is set in an impossibly modern and rather dystopian world of tech and rampant capitalism; think Black Mirror meets 1984, Brave New World by way of the works of Douglas Adams and Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
This is my review of the June Saga Book Club pick, The Saga of the Volsungs, which is also known as Völsunga Saga. This Saga was written anonymously, and the translation that I read is by Jesse L. Byock - it's easy to read and modern, unlike the William Morris and Eiríkur Magnússon, which is much more archaic (though that does add a certain charm to it too).
In this video, I talk about the appearances of Odin, Women and Witchcraft, things that inspired or have parallels with J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, revenge and the theme of inescapable fate.
I always love the light of a summer evening; it makes everything romantic.
Two pigeons sit perched upon a telephone line, nuzzling each other like time-wearied lovers, nipping at feathers out of place.
The clack, clack of tennis balls against rackets and the pumped-up gusto of players defying the heat to lunge for each strike.
Tall grass swaying in a gentle breeze, and the last rays of the sun yawning through gaps in the canopies of plush trees.
I feel euphoric and unencumbered when the days stretch far into the night. There is an enchantment to summer, and I am very much under her control, I just wish these days weren’t numbered and that the balmy giddiness could last forever.