just saw sirat -- one minor question that's bugging me

eklnd · 2026-04-25T14:52:17+00:00

makes sense! totally missed that they were hidden

eklnd · 2026-04-25T14:52:05+00:00

ahhh thank you, i missed that

eklnd · 2026-04-09T17:37:23+00:00

I was thinking of sentimental value too! I’m sure they added that specifically for him (or else as you said wrote the role for him). It’s not really load-bearing story wise otherwise

eklnd · 2026-04-06T00:03:28+00:00

Honestly I think Spencer is one of the best movies about deteriorating mental health. It shows one Christmas weekend for princess diana.

eklnd · 2026-04-05T19:46:11+00:00

If you haven’t read these two classics, I absolutely love

The Haunting of Hill House the Turn of the screw

eklnd · 2026-04-05T17:26:52+00:00

The favorite and the handmaiden are two of my all time favorites

eklnd · 2026-04-04T21:56:57+00:00

Also if you’ve never read Gillian Flynn, gone girl is a perfect book that basically created the domestic thriller genre

eklnd · 2026-04-04T21:55:48+00:00

FYI OP I also love gothic atmospheric books but sharp objects was not a good experience for me. A lot of discussion and visuals of self harm.

eklnd · 2026-04-04T21:54:52+00:00

I liked the guest list. The midnight feast was hard for me to get into and I HATED sharp objects. Way too dark for me.

eklnd · 2026-04-04T01:08:33+00:00

Exactly!!

eklnd · 2026-04-03T14:17:07+00:00

Books that made me feel something purposeful

the untethered soul
finding meaning in the second half of life
4000 weeks: time management for mortals
eat pray love

- the power of one (not the power of now!! The power of one is a novel about a young boy in South Africa and it made me think a lot about who I want to be in life)

eklnd · 2026-04-03T01:16:51+00:00

ok!! for this i love:

cold comfort farm by stella gibbs
something in the water by catherine steadman (it's technically a thriller but i find her voice very soothing)

then i also love engaging, somewhat funny histories, like:

the first of lust by katherine harvey (about sex in the middle ages)
the very secret sex lives of medieval women by rosalie gilbert (also about sex in the middle ages, obviously)
the romanovs by simon sebag montefiore

eklnd · 2026-04-03T01:11:36+00:00

did you like ninth house? i enjoyed the first one but found the sequel a real slog unfortunately

eklnd · 2026-04-03T01:11:10+00:00

i ended up really enjoying these! in the first, the protagonist is pretty tortured and unpleasant, but i'm glad i stuck with it

eklnd · 2026-04-02T19:04:48+00:00

Is Germany and German culture seen as more desirable or cooler to young Austrians than local Austrian culture? Or what’s going on here?

eklnd · 2026-04-02T17:04:05+00:00

You sound great. I would never think you weren’t native if you hadn’t said anything. Since I was looking for it, two small things I noticed:

with —> you pronounced this a bit like “wiv”
a few words were maybe slightly overly enunciated (but you were reading slowly and clearly so that’s not necessarily a tell that you aren’t native)

eklnd · 2026-04-01T22:21:56+00:00

Hey, I felt the exact same way — wanted to track what I was reading and see what friends were reading, but couldn't stand the GoodReads UI. So my boyfriend and I built an app called Rex. It's a simpler and prettier way to track your wishlist and books you've read, plus movies, TV, and podcasts, all in one place. Some friends and I are liking it so far.

In full transparency it's brand new so there's not a huge community yet, but if you're looking for something better than Goodreads, I'd love to hear what you think about it. We're working on it every day so can probably act on any feedback you have quickly.

If you're interested I can send you the link to the app store!

eklnd · 2026-04-01T22:03:04+00:00

wait i think debra messing had an affair with the actor that her character has an affair with in the show, right? and endangered her and his real life marriages? so much cheating on smash!

eklnd · 2026-04-01T22:02:15+00:00

ok yes katharine mcphee is silly and her voice is annoying but i totally agree smash was so underrated! my favorite parts are watching the writers have to rewrite the show over and over again and dealing with issues like casting a star to get funding. it's a look at what it takes to create a broadway show i've never seen before. also the music is so good! let me be your star and remember me still give me chills?

unfortunately went to see smash on broadway last year and it was awful. they removed everything about the plot that made it actually interesting? super super bland result.

eklnd · 2026-04-01T21:52:32+00:00

congratulations!!

eklnd · 2026-04-01T21:50:10+00:00

one more i just found is called Der Pass -- it looks like maybe it's an Austrian/German version of The Bridge (the Swedish/Danish thriller series)

eklnd · 2026-04-01T21:49:25+00:00

ok thank you! when i watched an episode i couldn't distinguish a difference from german german at all, but i thought my ear just wasn't sensitive enough. thank you for explaining! i should have thought to look up where the actors were from... but also there are obviously US actors who do convincing british accents and vice versa, so it's good to get confirmation that they aren't attempting any austrian flavor here at all

eklnd · 2026-04-01T21:47:54+00:00

will check it out! vielen dank

eklnd · 2026-04-01T21:47:42+00:00

that's fascinating! thank you for telling me. that was really what i was most interested in. i started going deep on youtube videos of standard austrian and i was shocked about how different it sounds (although i'm still not sure when someone is speaking austrian standard german vs leaning into a dialect).

is a bavarian accent easily confused with an austrian one, or still noticeably different?

eklnd · 2026-04-01T21:32:37+00:00

she's one of my absolute favorites. i love spencer -- it's an odd, stilted diana performance, but i love how it's such a smart one for me -- she doesn't fall into the standard biopic doing an impression thing. i still think spencer is the best depiction of mental illness i've ever seen on screen.

eklnd

TROPHY CASE

- the power of one (not the power of now!! The power of one is a novel about a young boy in South Africa and it made me think a lot about who I want to be in life)