Books, Movies, Music, Mood

 Books:

• I started listening to Big Swiss. It's wonderfully weird and I love getting to know all the characters.
• Also reading Orbital. Beautiful language and descriptions (albeit sometimes kind of forced and overwrought) but not much is happening (yet?). I don't know if I'm up for a literary novel at the moment... will see how things go.
• Also have a couple of books by T. Kingfisher waiting for their turn (once I'm done with Orbital).
• I recently listened to The September House. Overall, I liked it, but at one point it got a bit too bloody and gory, and I wished I was actually reading a physical book so that I could skip to the next page. 
• (it's more complicated with an audio book - I need to stop whatever else I'm doing, find my phone, open the app, skip forward, etc, etc)
• (when I listen to an audio book while doing nothing, like lying in bed in the evening, I fall asleep and miss multiple chapters. It's a pain and takes me forever to figure out how far back I need to go...)

Movies:

• I really want to see Flow!!! Preferably, in the movie theater.
• The kids and I are still watching White Collar  - we are almost done with season 5.  Husband has been joining us - he likes that show.
• E and I will probably watch Reacher season 3 at some point.
• E has been watching Bosch and he really likes the show - I am not in the mood for it... E has also been listening to Michael Connelly's audiobooks.
• I watched River - liked it.

Music:

• C and I will be going to see Schumann's cello concerto in a couple of weeks.
• E had a school concert - he did well (played a solo piece by Bach that he learned by himself) - but my other favorite performance was a sax quartet (soprano, alto, baritone, bass). Those kids were amazing!

Mood:

• Tired, stressed, sad.
• I've seen a lot of articles and posts about the pandemic - I can't believe it's been 5 years... 
• In many ways, the situation now feels more stressful and dangerous. And hopeless.