December Recap

 

WHAT I READ

• Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson (re-read)

• Our Violent Ends (These Violent Delights, #2) by Chloe Gong

• Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1) by Tracy Deonn

• The Excalibur Curse (Camelot Rising, #3) by Kiersten White

4 books.

PLAYLIST

1.) 2011 by 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER

“Why do we complicate it? / Why do we get so jaded? / Why do we ruin our dreams? / Why do we sabotage things? / Can we just go back, go back to 2011?”

2.) MANIPULATE by NATEWANTSTOBATTLE

“You really think it can't be you? / All your delusions you believe are true / Stretching forever into everything / But you don't wanna know this side of me.”

3.) IT'LL BE OKAY by SHAWN MENDES

“Are we gonna make it? / Is this gonna hurt? / We can try to sedate it / But that never works.”

4.) THIS HOUSE IS NOT A HOME by MUNN feat. DELANIE LECLERC

“I'd rather die inside than let them see / I cry alone at night so no one hears / That I'm breaking slowly / I wish that this world knew how to hold me.”

5.) WAKE UP CALL by DIAMANTE

“You couldn't recognize you lost a diamond / You were too busy stacking up your dimes and / I could hurt you like you hurt me / Make you suffer like I suffered.”

6.) FEAR by COMMONWEALTH

“Prayed to a god that was never mine / I gave up on myself this time / And as I looked around the room / I realized these people gave up, too.”

7.) ORDINARY CHRISTMAS by STATE CHAMPS

“Honestly, every time it comes to holidays / It constantly fills my mind, there’s not much I can take / In the end, there’s no way I’m gonna miss this / All I want is an ordinary Christmas.”

8.) GO TO HELL by CLINTON KANE

 “Tell me when / Did you love somebody else? / Did you care when you just / Tore my heart to shreds in someone’s bed? / This is my loving last farewell / I hope you both go rot in hell.”

9.) EASIER by JACOB LEE

“Four years in one / Five years have passed though / Six years of love / No proof of that though / Seven and eight, who do I pay / To take all my memories and throw them away?”

WHAT I WATCHED

I ... watched so many things, wow. So let's dive in.

First up — Last Night in Soho. I mostly just watched this purely for Anya Taylor-Joy as well as Jessie Mei Li and I gotta say, they really had me in the first half. The story and the setting were enchanting and intriguing, but unfortunately, it fell prey to a ton of horror stereotypes in the second half. Overall, it was still okay, but that ending definitely dampened my excitement a lot.

I didn't even know the movie for The Hating Game was coming out at all, least of all this year and so I immediately jumped on it once I heard about it. It was fine, surprisingly true to the book but the actor for Josh was just okay in his role. Lucy Hale killed it, though.

In preparation for The Witcher and because I missed Henry Cavill, I watched The Man from U.N.C.L.E. even though it's not usually my go-to genre. I ended up quite enjoying it though, luckily. Also, gotta say, Henry Cavill's German and Italian are not bad at all.

And lastly, there's Ready or Not, which was definitely the worst of the bunch. I've been seeing all these glowing recommendations for it left and right, but it was very lackluster, kind of predictable and the emotional pay-off for the end felt really cheap. Meh.

So, onto the shows! As I already mentioned, there is The Witcher season 2, which I binged on release day. The ending would have absolutely broken me if I hadn't known it was coming, but even so, it still left my jaw on the floor. All in all, I really loved this season; I know a lot of people didn't, but personally it was ... everything.

There were only two episodes of Nancy Drew this month but still, they were, obviously, bangers. I am both extremely impatient for the next few episodes but also very anxious because I don't want the season to be over yet.

And so last but not least, there is The Wheel of Time. I must say, the show did not at all put me in the mood to read the books, but I did enjoy its TV counterpart mostly. I do think the momentum really petered out a lot during the last 2-3 episodes, but I think they did some solid groundwork to base the future seasons on, which are hopefully going to blow it out of the park. Am definitely going to be back for season 2.