That was a terrible pun. It was supposed to conflate Enola’s abandonment with the Home Alone franchise… Let’s move on.
I just watched the Enola Homes movie on Netflix, and I have some notes.
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Overindulgence on Nostalgia
Recently, whenever I turned on Netflix, I’ve felt this strange anxiety. I suddenly become hyper-aware of how much free time I have and how much of it whatever show/movie I pick will take up.
I think it’s because I don’t want to be disappointed and feel like I wasted my time. So, I just don’t bother trying new things. Even if I hear that something is good, I tend to avoid it because I have a habit of disliking super popular things.
Instead of watching a new show, I just turn on Netflix and re-watch an old favorite of mine. Cause I already like series x than at least I know I’ll have a good time. The problem is this has changed recently.
Nowadays, I opened Netflix, avoid the new content, click on a show that I have watched more times than I’m proud to admit, and then I will just turn it off after a couple minutes. And this isn’t just a problem with shows either. Any content that I am revisiting is starting to grow stale to me.
I stopped enjoying the comfort of wrapping myself up old content. Now, it feels like my life is slowly wasting away every time I turn on one of my favs. I feel stagnant. Every time I take a walk down memory lane with one of these shows, I realize just how much I haven’t accomplished.
It’s not like I haven’t achieved things, but anything that I failed to do since my last viewing comes to the forefront of my mind.
I have found that a good way to get over this problem though. When I share old content with my friends and family, those thoughts don’t surface.
I watched Boys Over Flowers years ago but it felt brand new watching it with my mother, I started rewatching Game of Thrones with my best friend, and playing through the Danganronpa series has been so enjoyable with my sister trying to guess the mysteries.
After I finish with these things, I think I’m going to avoid revisiting old content for a while. I’m already pushing myself to watch new things like Umbrella Acadamy, which I watched for the first time. (I loved it.) As they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder, so maybe after a much-needed break, the nostalgia won’t feel like its strangling me.
A Quick Review of ‘Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes’
How perfect is it that the review that’s taken the longest to write is titled that?
To be fair, I live in Georgia, so quarantine ended right after I announced this series. Goodbye free time, hello anxiety.
A Quick Review of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I wasn’t prepared for how funny and clever this book turned out to be.
Reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (which will now be referred to as simply Hitchhiker’s) was like listening to a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. It was a wakey adventure that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Hitchhiker’s is fun, incredibly creative, and has excellent world-building.
Continue reading “A Quick Review of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”A Quick (and Incomplete) Review of Wicked
This is the first book I’m reviewing that I never finished and have no intention of finishing. I can’t even tell you that much about the plot because it’s been over a year since I shelved it. When I thought about reading it again, I remembered how much of a chore it was to read. The format of this review will be a little different than normal. Alright, let’s talk about Wicked
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Kikiyo’s Other Reincarnation
In honor of the Inuyasha getting a sequel, I’m gonna share this c theory that 13-year-old me came up with. This theory doesn’t even have that much evidence backing it. I just thought it would be fun.
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Because I’m still procrastinating, here’s another book series that I already started.
Flashback to 2011. Borders was going out of business and books were cheap, so I picked a random book off the shelf. I believe I was in high school at the time, so this was the first time that I picked a book that wasn’t in the manga section.
Continue reading “A Quick Review of the Lady Julia Grey Novels”A Quick Review on Baccano! Light Novels 1-6
(For anyone who doesn’t know, a light novel is a kind of young adult novel in Japan. The ones I’ve read usually clock in just under 200 pages with pictures sprinkled in. If you hear that an anime has a novel linked to it, then chances are its a light novel.)
I found the Baccano! series through anime. Back when Hulu was still free to everyone, I would watch every decent anime dubs that I could get my grubby little paws on. (For anyone who doesn’t watch dubs, I was a busy college student tried from reading. At the time a good dub was a godsend.)
A Bad Habit and New Series
Something that people should know about me is that I am a terrible reader. So terrible that I suspect that I must have some diagnosed reading disability. That didn’t stop me from watching anime subbed, reading manga, and surfing fanfiction.net for countless hours.
Still, it came as a shock to my family when I decided to major in English. (Well, it was English with a concentration in Creative Writing, but I still had to read plenty of novels and short stories.) With my major came a new healthier appetite for reading, but when I graduated, I lost the constant stream of reading material.
Jump ahead, and now I work at a bookstore. Unfortunately, I’ve developed the fiscally irresponsible habit of finding new books every time I clock in. While I can resist buying every book it the store, I now have a collection so large I can’t them fit on my shelf (there are literal stacks on my floor).
Of these books, most of them remain untouched, while the rest are half-read. So to motivate me to get through my 30+ pile of backup reading, I decided to start a series where I finish (or abandon) the books that I have accumulated and review them. I’ll start by reviewing the book series that I’m already partway through.
Until then, see ya later!
Ichigo Kurosaki and The Squad
So forever ago I wrote a post where I talked about shipping and threw in a line about how Rukia from Bleach was only the secondary lead for the first couple of arcs. I even promised to come back to that topic at a later date. Well, it’s been 2 years (My, how the time flies!) and with news that the Bleach anime is coming back what better time to talk about it than now.
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I Think Thinks 