I just got back from 10 days in Spain and it was incredible. Between Barcelona and San Sebastian and then back to Barcelona, it was an incredible trip to a gorgeous country – I can’t wait to go back and explore more! This month my pop culture is light since I was busy walking and eating and walking and eating and eating and…
Reading
I finished The Three Lives of Cate Kay at the end of March and it didn’t make last months round up. It was a really good story told well. I like multiple narrators and jumping around in time to tell a story. Once again Reese’s bookclub was right…
I love the journalist Leah Sottile and her new book Blazing Eye Sees All was fascinating! I had watched the Love Has Won documentary last year so was familiar with Mother God, but this book goes so deep into the history of new age studies and the women who lead them. If you like a cult, like I like a cult, you already know who Leah is then 😉
I started listening to the Lorne Michaels Bio Lorne and the narrator makes some interesting vocal decisions (which I’m glad that I’d been warned about by Whitney Matheson’s blog). Still, it’s a LONG audiobook and while I made a good dent on the trip, I’ll have to wait to finish until it returns to my library account. I didn’t read a single book while in Spain. I packed two and didn’t touch them. I tend not to read on international flights – I don’t know why, but it never really jumps at me. While I was gone the new Emily Henry book was delivered so I’ll get that devoured in the next week or two…
Listening
Everything is terrible and every podcast will tell you that on a daily basis if you let them. What’s saving me from all of that? Amy Poehler’s new podcast, Good Hang. It fills the Parks and Rec void in my life and the Kathryn Hahn episode was so fantastic…her talking about who would play her dog in a movie is amazing. I also really enjoyed the Jack Black episode on the painfully bumpy train ride from San Sebastian to Barcelona. They are so funny together and have a such a great friendship.
Watching
I really liked this season of White Lotus, sure the people are insufferable, that’s the point of the show. Parker Posey AND Walt Goggins AND Carrie Coon? I will always say yes to any of them in a show, a trifecta was quite the bonus!
We’re plugging along on Top Chef and The Amazing Race this season. It’s always fun to see where people travel on The Amazing Race and this season they ended up in Kyoto at a palace my husband visited when he was there last year for work, so that was fun (for him, I was home taking care of the dogs…)
I did a rewatch of Hacks for the new season and the show is so incredibly smart and funny and I hate when they fight but they do it so well. I caught up on the train rides and really loving this season and the story line. I also have been watching this final season of The Handmaids Tale. It’s as dark as ever and feels all too real this days, we’ll see how this one ends up. Also, can we talk about how Jonah from Veep absolutely would be the horrible character he is this season?
My binge on the flight was Étoile, I love anything Amy Sherman Palladino does, I wanted this to be more snark like Bunheads but it was a good show to binge on the flight home. I also finally watched Bottoms on the way to Spain and it was HILARIOUS. I’d heard great things and just needed 90 minutes with no distractions. It’s as funny as everyone said it would be, and Marshawn Lynch nails it.
The sun is shining and that means hopefully more time in my backyard reading and playing with Norm and Cliff are in my future…What are you excited for coming up in Pop Culture?
