April Recap

 

WHAT I READ

• Rule of Wolves (King of Scars, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

• Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang

• The Vegetarian by Han Kang

• Down Comes The Night by Allison Saft

• Five Ways to Fall Out of Love by Emily Martin

• Wicked As You Wish (A Hundred Names for Magic, #1) by Rin Chupeco

6 books.

PLAYLIST

1.) NEUKÖLLN by MADELINE JUNO

“Ich will nie wieder, nie wieder nach Neukölln / Nie wieder fühlen, was ich vergessen will / Ich lass mir lieber / Mein Herz mit Teer auffüllen / Denn wenn es kalt wird, ist es endlich still.”

2.) DU FÄNDEST ES SCHÖN by MADELINE JUNO

“Nichts geht einfach vorbei, doch es tut weniger weh / Ist nicht alles perfekt, doch alles auf dem Weg / Ich bin sicher, könntest du das alles sehen, du fändest es schön.”

3.) GLAD WE BROKE UP by KAYDEN

“I was all alone every night / He was laying beside you, while I / Was trying to find you / Won't admit you got to me / Can't erase the memories.”

4.) PUSH // PULL by SAM SKY feat. LAUREN BABIC

“Every time that I've been honest / Things always end the same / Why do I try to open my heart / If it always ends in pain?”

5.) ANXIOUS by THE WLDLFE

“And I don't wanna waste your time / But I can feel it deep inside my bones / We ain't going up in lights / 'Cause it was never real, it's just for show.”

6.) BOW TO ME by TRACES

“Up in the clouds, I pray to you / Fall to the ground, I'll wait for you / Down with the seasons, change for you / I can't change the truth / I'm not made for you.”

7.) BURN DOWN THIS ROOM by RUBEN

“You think I like to play the victim / Say that it's clear in how I speak / Like it's some kind of competition of / Who hurts the most of you and me / What if, for once, you try to listen?”

8.) YOU by REGARD, TROYE SIVAN & TATE MCRAE

“I see your face in every stranger, everywhere I go / I hear your voice in conversations, every word you spoke / Nearly blocked you on my phone about a thousand times.”

9.) WHEN WAS IT OVER? by SASHA SLOAN ft. SAM HUNT

“So was it ever real or was it all pretend? / The way you’re acting’s got me wondering / When was the moment you knew / That you were gonna walk out eventually? / It’s still not over for me.”

10.) KNOW MY LONELINESS by NEVERTEL

“How did I get like this? / I’m a failure to coexist lately / Nobody knows me best like I know my lonely / Know my loneliness.”

11.) PANIC ROOM (ACOUSTIC) by AU/RA

“Still waiting, hands shaking / Maybe the coast will clear / But these voices, these strange noises / They followed me in here.”

12.) WASTED ART by POINT NORTH

“I don’t ever wanna forget / Without you things are a little bit different / We could’ve made a beautiful picture / Yeah, we were wasted art / We could only paint in black and white.”

13.) SHE GETS THE FLOWERS by BETH MCCARTHY

“She gets the flowers, right? / The posts made about her / A love that is perfect / A love I deserved / A love that I gave.”

14.) SHAMELESS by VRSTY

“But I can't take any more / Convulsing like a fiend on the floor / She says I'm the one, but this isn't fun / She fooled me once, now she's coming for blood.”

15.) DEVIL by LOWBORN

“It keeps coming for me with a skeleton key and some nights it locks me out / On my own, guess I'll never break the chains / 'Cause it's better to deal with the devil you know / Than the devil you don't.”

16.) STILL THE SAME by SHY MARTIN (ft. BOY IN SPACE)

“Hoped it'd be different but it feels the same / You left my system but you're stuck in my DNA / My heart's pushed into a corner / My brain is out of order.”

17.) MIDDLE OF THE ROAD by CHAZ CARDIGAN

“All my life I was watching everybody die young and keep living / I couldn’t wait to go find something better than sticking around.”

18.) LAST DECEMBER by GOOD CHARLOTTE

“Things we didn’t say / Mistakes that we both made / None of that stays with me to this day.”

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Honestly, the star of the whole year is simply Shadow and Bone. I binged it all on the Friday it came out and I was so entirely blown away. I STILL AM. This is truly the best adaptation ever, and everything I could have asked for as well as so much more. I love every single thing about it. I have no notes. Nothing to criticize. I am in love with this show with every fiber of my being.
I also pushed through the entirety of Westworld and seeing as I keep having all these issues with my HBO subscription (sigh), I'm not sure it's worth the hassle. At this point, I feel like the show is kind of overhyped, but then again, nobody is talking about it anymore? You couldn't escape it back when season 1 was airing, but oh well. It's an okay show, but honestly not THAT great.

Another show that I binged in one single evening that I truly enjoyed, however, was Biohackers. The acting and the script were iffy here and there, but the science is sort of solid and I do love the way they went with the story. I am definitely going to be watching season two.

Yet another show I basically binged within a few days was The Irregulars. I enjoyed this one so much, I really hope there's going to be a season 2 because I see so much potential.

Lastly, I had to make the most of the buggy HBO subscription and so I binged Sharp Objects as well. I liked it! I haven't had the chance to read the book beforehand, but nevertheless, it was still quite compelling. I do believe that I would have maybe liked it a bit better if I had read it, but I enjoyed it more than, say, Westworld. 

Nancy Drew is also keeping me entertained every week; I'm still vastly enjoying this season. The same is true for Queen of the South, returning with a season five that is so much better than season 4 already. Let's see how this last season is going to pan out. I've also finally started on Wynonna Earp season 4, and so far I am very much interested and liking it.

MAY TBR

• Realm Breaker (Realm Breaker, #1) by Victoria Aveyard

• Mister Impossible (Dreamer Trilogy, #2) by Maggie Stiefvater