Media recs: Books, TV, Games for the past month, in detail.

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Here are the tv, book, and game recs for the month. Lots of readers love the details here, consider upgrading to get the color commentary :) TITAA Recs #69: Heroism and Space Battles Media recs: Books, TV, Games for the past month, in detail. Lynn Cherny Aug 1 ∙ Preview   READ IN APP   Art from Frieren (via an X post) I read some good science fiction with some good space battles, in particular: The Killing of Worlds (Scott Westerfeld) and Fearless (Allen Stroud), plus the latest fun Mur Lafferty The Infinite Archive. Meet Me at the Crossroads ended well with a few caveats about the late section, and The Blue Hour (mystery, Paula Hawkins) was well-written and unsettling. But mostly I am here to suggest you all watch ⭐️ Frieren ⭐️, even if you aren’t anime/animation fans. It’s amazing, and will make you think hard about relationships, time, heroism, memories. I can’t recommend enough, I adored it. In other good TV, I also liked The Apothecary Diaries, another anime show. Is this my middle aged anime era? Bring it on, send recs?! Details and further thoughts and media recs follow….! With a good poem... Subscribe to Things I Think Are Awesome to unlock the rest. Become a paying subscriber of Things I Think Are Awesome to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. Upgrade to paid A subscription gets you: Mid-month full post with news links, plus a weirdness & esoterica section, for the very latest breaking creative tech news. End of the month full post, plus a separate detailed post on the books/tv/games recs. Great karma and my gratitude (because I take off work to do this).   Like Comment Restack   © 2025 Lynn Cherny 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe