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Dina:
Oh, Blacklist. I had not watched even one episode since last time I posted about it, so I still have half a season to watch but I keep been distracted with other shows. Once you finished it, we will talk about it, here (with spoiler tags) or by PM.
I am currently watching
Andor
Doctor Who
So I did not watched any of the other shows I told you about.
I am excited because today I've read that in Daredevil Season 2 we will see Jessica Jones again. I really loved the first season of her show. The other two, not so much.
Regenbogen:
I am also excited about the next season of Daredevil. I really enjoyed the first one.
Blacklist: I have not yet informed myself of how many seasons there are. I think we are on the second season. But I'll tell you once we have finished it.
We are also watching the new Dr Who episodes.
And so far I have only watched the first season of Andor. But apparently I have watched it alone. My husband wasn't interested at first but then watched with me sometimes, but not enough to understand anything, lol. So he'll have to watch the first season and after that we can watch the next season together.
Next week, I am working the nightshift again, so he'll have opportunity to catch up. It wasn't so many episodes iirc.
I am still reading the romance book. I think, it had gotten better. At the moment, the heroine has been imprisoned by some vampires and pretends to have lost her memory as they tried to erase it, but she had a charm that protected her from mind magic. It is not the best book by far but I promised the author to read it. So I'll finish it some day.
Dina:
I won't tell you about Blacklist :)
Andor are not so many episodes, but they uploaded three episodes a week and I simply could not catch. I don't think I am going to watch all the remaining ones this weekend either, but I hope to make some progress.
I am liking Doctor Who so far.
I liked that you are reading the book for that reason :)
Regenbogen:
We had some WiFi problems yesterday, because we changed the provider and they did new fibre and stuff, but the signal wouldn't go through. I remember that last year there were some guys checking the signals, and they said, in our house, everything was OK, but there is a disruption somewhere outside. They could not locate it because they needed different equipment for that. Then they said, their boss would check it out and repair it and they would tell us if it didn't work. It must be somewhere between our street and the next one. I had a strong suspicion that said boss never came.
Today, a technician showed up because we called them. Our old provider cut the signal and the new provider should have kicked in, but it didn't work. But now they are more motivated to repair the damage, because as of yesterday we are their customers and now they have to pay our old provider to grant us wifi as long as they have not solved the problem, muahaha. So, for now we have WiFi.
I stopped reading the book for a week or so, because I am relistening to the Dresden Files. And I couldn't concentrate on any other book. I am now at Battle Ground. THE Chapter is already behind me. I did some garden work while listening to it, and I managed not to cry.
Now I have read a few pages from the other book. It isn't bad, it's just that I seem to be spoiled by all those extraordinary books I've read so far, the DF included, that my threshold for "book that keeps me reading" has become very high, lol.
I am not sure if I told you already: the author (from the USA) asked in a language group about how to call a German village whose inhabitants were all magicians. Kind of a subculture. A bit likeHarry Potter where almost all the wizards live in their own bubble. She decided to take one of my suggestions, so I asked her to share the link and that I would read the book, even if I am not a fan of romance, but I like fantasy and vampires. And so I came to read the book.
I like the ideas and the story so far, but sometimes I am either annoyed by the main character or by them solving a problem in a much too complicated way while on the other hand they often got away too easy.
But there were also good exciting parts, like when the vampires sent a freshly turned one to kill the wizard equivalent of a government including their vampire hunters. And he succeeded. Only two of them survived.
One old veteran with sadly not much combat magic and one female kind of secretary who only recently was trained as a vampire hunter, because she has rare lightning powers. But being very inexperienced. That's the main character.
One guy (the German one, coming from the mentioned village) has been abducted by the vampires and now they are trying to free him. Of course he is the romantic interest.
Only now they are both prisoners. But this actually is the interesting part now.
The book is well written in my opinion. Definitely worth reading, but more by readers who also like romance, because sometimes the romantic aspect is very much the focus of the story.
So, I am just not the target audience. But I know my cousin is.
Dina:
Sorry about your WIFI problems, but at least you have it, one way or another.
I watched a few more Andor episodes and they were amazing. I think you got the right idea, watching all the show together, instead of a long way between seasons, seems the best way to enjoy it and not missing this. And I would end it with a rewatch of Rogue One. I am sorry to say I do not remember many things from season 1.
They already uploaded all the season (all the show, actually. Two seasons) to Disney but I am very far behind. I hope to watch a few more episodes tomorrow, but of course I have other things to do. Like grading a few things (serious work) or level-up my RPG character (serious fun). The second thing will probably take me more time.
It was fun to read about how to promise the author to read the book, and all what you mentioned is quite interesting.
On a different note, we have elections here on Sunday. They are for local representatives, so it is not such a big deal, it will only affect my city. But it is the capital of the country, it will have some repercussions on the national level too.
Also, we are having a heavy rainstorm. It has been raining since Friday morning and it is supposed to keep raining, more or less often, until Saturday night. There are moments without any rain, moments with a light rain and real storms, like right now. in some places of the province there are floodings, but not as bad as the one I told you a few weeks ago. At least, for now.
And tomorrow we will have a F1 driver for the first time in many years. I don't actually care for that at all, but for some people in my country it is a big deal. So, in case you are a F1 fan, there is that :)
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