Stuff I Like: Summer Edition

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Today is another installement on my occasional series in which I tell you about cool stuff I've been readind/watching/listening to/playing lately, in list form, because I like lists.

Reading

1. I recently finished a book called Old Wolf by Avi, and it was quite good. It is a middle reader that flips between the POV of a wolf, and that of a 13 year old boy. It's a quick read, and well written, as is anything by Avi. I read an ARC of it, but I believe it comes out this month sometime.

2. I'm reading a book called The Swerve right now, and it is fantastic. I'm not far into it, but I highly reccommend it.

3. I reading The Golden Compass outloud to Isabelle right now, and I'm really loving rereading it. I am a huge fan of those books, and this time through, I'm really appreciating the writing.

4. I just read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, and it was amazing. I highly, highly recommend it. There might be a full review of that one coming soon.

Watching

5. I finally finished Lost recently, and the ending was much better than I feared it could have been. It's been awesome to finally be able to read stuff on the internet about it, and boy is there a lot to read.

6. I'm now caught up on Gravity Falls, and I got my mom and sister to watch it, so now I'm also rewatching it with them. It's awesome. And there's a new episode tomorrow!!

Listening

7. There haven't been any new Hello Internets in a while, so I'm sad about that. Even Cortex is taking a week off. :(

8. I've been listening to a TON of Nerdist lately. I know I'm about four years late on that bandwagon, but it's a great one. For those of you who don't know, Nerdist is the podcast of Chris Hardwick, on which he and his co-hosts Matt Mira and Jonah Ray interview people. They come out three times a week most weeks, so there are over 700 of them, which is a lot. I actually much prefer the 'hostful' podcasts, which are just the three hosts, but the interviews can be really good too.

Just a warning - Nerdist is not a family friendly podcast. They swear a LOT, and there is a lot of adult content. Nerdist is hilarious, but not for kids or for the easily offended.

9. Welcome to Nightvale just came back from their hiatus, during which they posted two new episodes. One of those was the first chapter from their new book, and I am so excited! I can not wait for that book to come out this fall!

10. The Green brother's new podcast, Dear Hank and John, is also quite good.

11. I've been listening a little bit to Radio Free Burrito by Wil Wheaton, but it's not grabbing my attention as much as I thought it would. Not sure if I'll stick with that one.

Playing

12. I haven't had that much time to play games recently, but I have been playing a bit of Don't Starve every now and then.

13. There is this great indie game called Paper, Please that I really like. It's a work sim in which you are a boarder guard in a fictional world that is remarkably similar to 1980's eastern Europe.

I don't have time to put in links to all of these things, but please, go check them out!