Weeknotes: 2025-W16

Published: 21 April, 2025, updated: 21 April, 2025

Summary

Started making some real progress on my new woodworking project, preparing for a long weekend with my husband away where I could focus even more, and then struck down sick for that whole long weekend, watching a bunch of movies.

Photos

(Based more on time of processing than time of taking…)

Enjoying

• Reading:
  • The Crone of Midnight Embers (Myrtlewood Crones #1) by Iris Beaglehole (★★★☆☆)
  • The Crone of Solstice Flames (Myrtlewood Crones #2) by Iris Beaglehole (★★★☆☆)
  • All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells (★★★★★)
  • Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) by Martha Wells (★★★★★)
  • Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3) by Martha Wells
• Watching:
  • 🎥🏠🔄 Forgetting Sarah Marshall (★★★★☆)
  • 🎥🏠 The Big Sick (★★★★☆)
  • 🎥🏠 Spontaneous (★★★★☆)
    • So much going so well, but didn’t stick the landing.
  • 🎥🏠🔄 Easy A (★★★★☆)
  • 🎥🏠 Yes, God, Yes (★★★★☆) )
  • 🎥🏠 The DUFF (★★★★☆)
  • 🎥🏠 Plane (★★★☆☆)
    • A better-than-average entry in the genre.
  • 🎥🏠 Mickey 17 (★★★☆☆)
    • Enjoyable, but probably ultimately forgettable.
  • 🎥🏠 The Other Zoey (★★★☆☆)
    • At least for me, the self-awareness of the romcom genre adds rather than diminishes.
  • 🎥🏠 G20 (★★★☆☆)
    • Does what it sets out to.
  • 📺📅 The Rookie season 7
• Playing:
  • Cracking the Cryptic

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