I watched Rumble this week on Paramount+ which delighted me with its pageantry. There are spunky youngsters hoping to live up to the legacy of their fathers, a town in peril, a bad guy and oddly, salsa dancing mashed up with WWE except with Kaijus.
I don’t think Rumble had anything new to say about the human condition but at the same time, I don’t know if everything needs to be incisive commentary. Sometimes, things can just be good because they make you happy.
(Read Wait but Why’s excellent Your Life in Weeks if you need an incisive explanation as to why Just Enjoying Yourself Is Good actually. Be forewarned: if you’re not someone currently okay with pondering your mortality, it’s a depressing read.)
And speaking of things that make me happy, I spent this week devouring Gwenda Bond’s Not Your Average Hot Guy, an amazing little rom-com which features Lucifer’s son and the daughter of a woman who runs an escape room; The Date From Hell, its equally delightful sequel which has our protagonists swapping places (no, I’m not explaining how) and a Hemsworth-level third wheel; Olivia Dade’s charming Spoiler Alert, which deals with some rough topics while also being rom-com about a fanfic writer who falls in love with a TV star; and capped it all off with How We Roll, a sitcom based on the life of Tom Smallwood, who pursued his dream of becoming a professional bowler after he was laid off.
It was all good. Almost as good as another week of being privileged enough to live with Big Orange and Miss Tortie. I’m always a little amazed that I’m lucky enough to have them in my life, and to be the subject of their unconditional affection. We don’t deserve animals but still they let us love them.
Anyway, as always:
"Olivia Dade’s charming Spoiler Alert"
Well, it was already somewhere in the TBR Ranges, but clearly it needs to be moved up a few dozen spaces.
Gotta say, I'm deeply charmed by the number of books I'm seeing lately where fanfic is a central part of at least some characters lives. (I *loved* Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, and I hope to enjoy Spoiler Alert at least as much. The description is certainly headed down the right path for this.)
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Ah! I am a big Olivia Dade fan. I just read Penny Reid’s Ten Trends to Seduce Your Best Friend last week and enjoyed myself immensely.