#super enjoyed miss pettigrew and sex education

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My media this week (19-25 Sep 2021)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😐 The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient #1) (Helen Hoang, author; Carly Robins, narrator) - I ended up finishing this book mostly frustrated and annoyed, but this is definitely a YMMV book. There was a lot I really liked, but, like an MCU/DCEU movie, it was entirely too fucking long, just dragging all the ‘conflict’ out what felt like endlessly. I quit the audiobook at 80%, because I just could not take it & it’s hard to skim through audio. I do think I may have been more forgiving of the overall experience if I read it in text & not audio. (The narrator was great; this was not a narration issue.) I finished in ebook since I could skim right through all the tiresome bullshit for the tiny satisfying nuggets.

🙂 Just a Little Prick (accidental-mormon (crazyhomoinspace)) - 65K, OtaYuri no-skater AU

😍 disturb the universe series (NoRationalThoughtRequired) - 41K series (28K main fic), Geraskier, modern AU - Geralt runs a used bookshop with his brothers & and one day, he allows street musician (and really quite good professional violinist) Jaskier to play outside his shop. Pure, lovely, satisfying fluff. 

💖 +173K of shorter fic so shorter work shout out 💖

60 Beans and a Cup of Magic (crinklefries) - MCU: Stucky, 28K - reread; delightful shrinkyclinks magic AU with beefy baker Bucky & witch Steve

Poiesis (opalescentgold) - The Witcher: Geraskier, 13K - this tag says it all: Grumpy antisocial writer in a friendly coffeeshop - very fluffy & lovely with some really excellent integration of IRL Witcher/Joey Batey/The Amazing Devil into story elements

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Ghosts - s3, e4-6

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Elementary - s1, e1-2

Sex Education - s1, e1-2

Only Murders In The Building - s1, e6

Star Trek: Discovery - s1, e9-10

Ted Lasso - s2, e10

Come From Away

Magic Mike XXL

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

WorkLife with Adam Grant - Taken for Granted: Lin-Manuel Miranda Daydreams, and His Dad Gets Things Done

FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH Patreon Crew! - Romesh Ranganathan • THE RESURRECTION!

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 2021 Emmys Recap

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The World’s Largest Collection of Small Versions of Large Things

Strong Songs - "Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox

Strong Songs - "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Martian Meteorites and Greek Columns with the AO Places Team

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Three Great Fiction Audiobooks

Ologies with Alie Ward - Opossumology (O/POSSUMS) with Lisa Walsh

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Rödstensgubben

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Hidden Brain - You 2.0: Did That Really Happen?

FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH Patreon Crew! - Yvette Nicole Brown • THE RESURRECTION!

Song Exploder - Lucy Dacus "Thumbs"

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Very Best of Peter, Paul and Mary

All The Leaves Are Brown: The Golden Era Collection

Caribbean Instrumental Danzon

Pat Benatar

Annie Lennox

The Carpenters

Don't Stop Now

Smash Mouth

70s Lite Hits

Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

"Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" [Looking Glass] radio

Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro