Book Rants - March 2026

Here are the books I read & movies and shows I watched in March.

Books I Read:

01 - The Spoon in the Bathroom Wall by Tony Johnston
What's it about: school, bullies, bad principal, dragons, teachers, magic
This was really short (about 144 pages), I read it this in about an hour and some minutes - It really seems like a short story and yet, not really. I sort of liked this but it was just so short and everything moved quickly.

Fiction: The Concoction

This month's Words for Wednesday prompts are supplied by River over here. This week's prompts are: concoction, premises, smoky, genuine, stronger, grease.

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Fiction: The Concoction
The sky was a smoky haze when Holland was escorted off the premises with her box of meager office belongings. On her way to the bus stop, she paused for the fifth time, put the box on the ground, looked around, sighed and wondered again why she didn't stick around to fight for her job. She reminded herself she was a good person. Leaving a corrupted workplace was the right thing to do. She smiled, picked up the box and was struck by a shopping cart. She went tumbling to the ground.

Apparently I watched a lot of crappy tv

I don't know why I spent so much time watching shows with mediocre storylines but I guess my brain wasn't quite functioning. (Note: Most of these are out of context but I hope they make some sense.) Here are some vexing tv shows storylines.

01 - Dying person brought back to life and then gets killed - What is the point of this? You give us hope and then kill it along with the character. 

02 - A woman's supposedly boyfriend dies and then some new character is introduced who looks exactly the same as the boyfriend who died - This kind of coincidence is just dumb. Then she got to know the guy and started hanging with him. If someone almost killed you and gave you PTSD so that you can barely function, you should run away from his doppelgänger as fast as possible.