The BoMoSh | Books, Movies, Shows

Last updated on 2 July 2019

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Welcome to the BoMoSh!

The BoMoSh is a post for Books, Movies and Shows. I’ll be sharing what I’ve read and seen in the last month, and I always welcome suggestions for books, shows and movies. Leave me a comment if you think there’s something that I might enjoy.

Books | 7

The Red Scrolls of Magic, by Cassandra Clare and Wesly Chu
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores, by Jen Campbell
Stepsister, by Jennifer Donnelly
Ruby Red, by Kerstin Gier, translated by Anthea Bell
Broken Throne, by Victoria Aveyard
My Name is Not Peaseblossom, by Jackie French
In Real Life, by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang

I tried to keep my page-count down this month after last month’s debacle. I managed to succeed mostly, and read more books this month because of it. I quite enjoyed most of these books – with the exception of Ruby Red, which was just meh – and you can check out my reviews for more details. I had actually read half of Broken Throne before I even read it; the first two stories in this short story compilation by Victoria Aveyard were published as Cruel Crown a wee while ago. The three other stories were new to me though, and you’ll be able to read my review of them all coming soon!

Movies

Easy A
Dark Phoenix

Can we ~~rant~~ talk about the latest X-Men movie? I was definitely looking forward to it, but I was rather disappointed. As a movie by itself, separate from the rest of the X-Men series, it was a great movie and I actually enjoyed it as a stand-alone story. But throw it into a nearly-20-year-old film series and it was annoying to say the least. After much talk with a friend afterwards, we realised two things: firstly that because of the events in Days of Future Past (where there’s a whole thing with time and it basically it alters the time line and the first three/original X-Men movies don’t happen) the events in Dark Phoenix can technically happen but that’s a major cop-out (it’s like they’ve just started again afresh which would be fine if there was a huge gap between movies and they wanted to reintroduce the X-Men to the world and a new generation…but we’re still here!); and secondly it’s basically just a remake of all the scenes we already had of Jean Grey over the past 19 years, but in a way shorter space of time and all stitched together. The fact that not one by two major characters in the franchise die in this film puts a real damper on all past films and I was well pissed off. So! Good as a movie by itself, anger-inducing as part of the whole.

Easy A is just as hilarious and epic the 100th time I’ve seen it.

Shows

I’ve barely watched anything this month. I mean, I have … but I feel like I haven’t. Late nights out, or I’ve been reading, or playing Sims 4 (HA) have meant that my usual TV time is pushed to the side. I have, however, been watching Younger, and also finally caught up with and finished Riverdale. I also signed up to Amazon Prime so I could watch Good Omens, which I’ve seen some of and I know the rest will be just as amazing.

What have you read and watched this past month?