A Blog of Books and Musicals

Because my mom hated Monty Python as a child, I wasn’t exposed to them until college. I took a comedy course that compared American and British comedy, and as Monty Python is a staple of the latter, of course we watched some of their work. Even though on paper Monty Python and the Holy Grail seems well within my purview, I didn’t much care for it. There were a f...

I got deeply behind on reviews this month, so I’m going to make this one quick.

Here’s what I read…

The Broken Earth trilogy is an intriguing, difficult read. It took me nearly two months to read it, which is agonizingly slow for me. It’s a very different sort of fantasy novel than any I’v...

It can be hard to find a TV show that my whole family can enjoy together. In an attempt to find one, my parents and I were both assigned to make a list of possibilities to then pitch. My coworker had mentioned Running Point to me (“it has Max Greenfield in it”) and it sounded good enough to put forward. The trailer looked amusing and I figured the sports of it all co...

I love Greek mythology, heists, and LGBTQ+ stories  so when I became aware of Icarus by K. Ancrum I immediately put it on my TBR. For some reason, it was difficult to get my hands on. I checked my library for it repeatedly but only just got it and the result was that I’d let anticipation for it build for something like a year. It was not what I expected.