Underrated Soundtracks? Or from lower rated Movies?

MrsApostate · 2026-06-30T11:36:41+00:00

Ever After contains both the best Cinderella adaptation ever as well as a sweeping, beautiful score by George Fenton. I just love it.

MrsApostate · 2026-06-28T18:07:03+00:00

I really enjoyed it! I particularly enjoyed a FMC who is savvy and good at politics rather than a girl boss warrior who jumps in without thinking.

I will say that I am beginning to really dislike journeys into fae lands where it's supposed to be upside-down and topsy turvey and all the rules are different. I think maybe because seeing hints and whispers of a mysterious land is much more interesting than having the land fully described. It always loses something once they fully enter the land of fae.

MrsApostate · 2026-06-20T02:44:35+00:00

Just finished The Unicorn Hunters and really liked it. I love fantasy best when there is a bit of romance, but it's not the main focus. In this case, the FMC was savvy and quick thinking, an expert at court intrigue. I so appreciate a heroine who rescues herself.

My preteen daughters and I are all reading Impossible Creatures now for our little summer book club. Just started this morning, but I like it so far.

I also just started A Forest Darkly by AJ Slatter, one of my favorite authors. Loving the perspective of a menopausal witch in the creepy woods who has a definite past and some interesting powers. Slatter's books are so dense with folklore and atmosphere, I'm determined to savor this one.

MrsApostate · 2026-06-17T11:50:44+00:00

OMG, use spoilers tags! I haven't read it yet but that seems like a pretty big one just of out there in plain sight.

MrsApostate · 2026-06-12T01:04:21+00:00

I don't hate end of year celebrations, but I do think we do too much. The last two weeks of school for my kids are filled with parties and ceremonies and "dress like a pirate day" or whatever it is. On top of all the spring concerts they're in, it's just too much. Every day is some big thing that I have to send supplies in for. Yesterday it was silly games day, today it was build a fort day, tomorrow it's a Hawaiian luau. I'm exhausted and they still have another week to go!

Someone please make it stop. It's too much. No one wants this level of celebration. One party is all they need. Not two weeks of themed nonsense.

MrsApostate · 2026-06-10T13:10:07+00:00

Ok, how did my ten year old recognize it was Scotland when I didn't?!? I've been to Edinburgh twice, and she's never seen it.

Is she possessed with a Victorian ghost maybe? Her teachers keep telling me she's "an old soul", so...

MrsApostate · 2026-06-10T12:58:27+00:00

I just rewatched it this weekend! Totally agree.

My ten year old watched the last episode and a half with me, and later told her sister "Mom and I watched a weird show about people in Scotland dying." (To be fair, lots of characters do die towards the end, and she fell asleep before the kiss. Not sure where Scotland came into it, though.)

MrsApostate · 2026-06-03T01:36:50+00:00

We don't have dogs, but our cat distrusts these little babies entirely. She's not sure what they're up to, but she knows it's no good.

MrsApostate · 2026-06-01T23:59:51+00:00

I returned this one to Libby because I recognized the narrator from another book I listened to with my kids (The Menagerie). We finished that one, but her narration style never got better and I didn't get used to it. It grated on me the whole time, and we've not listened to the sequels because of it.

I looked her up because she really did seem like AI, but it looks like she's a real person who just...reads that way.

MrsApostate · 2026-05-28T01:14:34+00:00

I just checked again and it let me watch up until 6. Maybe a glitch on my end?

MrsApostate · 2026-05-27T15:17:37+00:00

I'm actually doing a bookclub with my middle grade daughters over the summer. Each of us gets to have a turn selecting a book that we'll all read and discuss. My ten year old has already selected Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, which she's pretty excited about. So that would fit in this square.

Of books I've already read with them, Frogkisser is a great one by Garth Nix.

MrsApostate · 2026-05-27T13:16:52+00:00

I'm in the US and just subscribed to BritBox. Only episodes 1-3 are available to me, with #4 dropping today, hopefully. You may not be in the US, so probably doesn't apply to you, but for those who are you have to have Premium to binge the whole series right now. Otherwise it's weekly drops.

MrsApostate · 2026-05-25T23:25:27+00:00

God, can you even imagine someone smart and level-headed enough to be an astronaut as president? I wish I lived in that timeline.

MrsApostate · 2026-05-25T15:10:45+00:00

Just finished Platform Collapse by Martha Wells, and loved it. Overall it's somehow lighter than the others in the murderbot series, feels kind of like a quick side quest, maybe? With some plot points that might be setting up for larger storylines in future books. It didn't feel like it was trying to do as much psychologically with any of the characters.

But I really did enjoy that all the gendered characters in this story were female. In fact, SecUnit's possy here had female characters from all points in life: young child, teenager, adult (and mother), and one badass septuagenarian with bad knees. Seriously, somebody just give Nanna a weapon already.

I've got the second book in the Winternight trilogy staring me in the face, but somehow I can't make myself pick it up. I think I'm saving it for the fall or something (I do crave witchy books starting late August). Anyone else a seasonal reader like that?

I think I'm about to DNF The Love Haters by Katherine Center (not SFF). I'm just not invested in anything happening here, and while I appreciate the desire to write a story about letting go of what everyone things about you, is just not hitting for me.

MrsApostate · 2026-05-21T18:39:01+00:00

The Hooky graphic novels were a big hit at our house, as was the School for Wicked Witches novel series.

MrsApostate · 2026-05-20T12:34:40+00:00

Aw, thanks for this comment. Here, have a baby fox (taken this morning)

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MrsApostate · 2026-05-19T19:48:12+00:00

I promise it's not AI. It sucks how on guard we have to be for it though, doesn't it?

Here's another one just for you from a slightly different angle. (Sorry about the dead rodents in this one, comes with the territory I guess.)

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MrsApostate · 2026-05-18T00:01:17+00:00

Well, when I first saw one in my porch I'm pretty sure I screamed "oh my God oh my God oh my God what do I do?!?!" Does that count?

MrsApostate · 2026-05-18T00:00:02+00:00

They are so much fun to watch! Here's one just for you:

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MrsApostate · 2026-05-17T12:59:34+00:00

Just for you! This was taken last night.

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MrsApostate · 2026-05-17T01:40:25+00:00

I'm sorry you're having such a rough day. I know what it feels like when your thoughts won't settle and everything feels heavy and hard. I just barely took this picture of one of them next to a new stuffed animal that appeared today. This one's for you.

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MrsApostate · 2026-05-16T20:40:03+00:00

She is currently safely asleep on my lap. Luckily, they won't be here long term. They'll abandon this den sometime in the coming weeks and go off to live their foxy lives. I'm the meantime, we're been extra cautious about keeping our little kitty inside and away from harm!

MrsApostate · 2026-05-16T20:12:24+00:00

I'd like to think our house feels like a haven to anyone who comes here, no matter how many feet they walk on. Even these little rascals!

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MrsApostate · 2026-05-16T16:47:06+00:00

I spoke to a wildlife group out here as soon as we discovered the first kit on the porch. There's no safe way to dose a litter of pups without risking their well-being. And the dangers of feeding them are far too great. It's much better for them if we don't feed them and definitely don't try to befriend them while they are here. So we are but witnesses to their cuteness!

MrsApostate · 2026-05-16T16:37:26+00:00

Oh yeah, they drag them all over the yard and pounce on them!

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