The World's Common Tater

I was in India last week so I did not do a week in review. Even with a week off I don’t have a lot to report on as I was traveling a lot so my reading and watching was abnormal.

Movies: The movie selection on the plane to Delhi was limited. There were a handful of new Hollywood movies, a larger selection of older Hollywood movies and a collection of Indian movies. I watched Pacific Rim Uprising which was a lot better than I was expecting for a sequel without the original cast. I decided to save Tomb Raider for the trip home and rewatched Creed(very good) and You’ve Got Mail(still charming). Unfortunately, the plane on the way home had upgraded screens, but even more limited movies and the new movies were not an option. I ended up rewatching The Blind Side. I almost forgot: I watched Thoroughbreds on the short flight from Delhi to Hyderabad. It wa interesting, but not great.

TV: All of my TV viewing has been random repeats of Friends, How I Met Your Mother and other US shows that were airing on TV in India. We did see a piece of an Indian TV show while in a Uber in Hyderabad that we would like to find and watch, but we can’t remember the name and I haven’t been able to find it googling key words. Maybe some day I will find it again.

Books:  I took two ARCS with me to India: We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix and Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer. We Sold Our Souls is about a former member of a metal band who now works at a hotel while her former band mate is a mega-star. When she finds out he is doing a farewell tour she decides to confront him about the end of the band and discovers there might be some evil behind the situation. I enjoyed it. It was a little weird, but it kept me reading. Hope Never Dies is a mystery where the “detectives” are Joe Biden and Barack Obama. They are investigating the death of an Amtrak employee Biden knew from his time riding down when he was in the Senate. It was a nice little cozy type mystery that I would not have read if Biden and Obama were not the main characters. It’s worth a read for the novelty, but that’s it.