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Jan. 2nd, 2013 01:30 pm
topaz119: (HeartsFromTheBeach)
This journal has a mix of fandom & daily stuff, recs, & fic announcements.

My most recently updated intro post is here: 10 Things You Might See Around Here


You can also find me:

[archiveofourown.org profile] topaz (AO3) my fic & bookmarks

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[livejournal.com profile] topaz119 (livejournal) used to mirror my DW content, but is only still around until I validate my imports & get my photos dealt with.

[livejournal.com profile] t_fic (livejournal) this one is gone, but all the fic was cross-posted to AO3 & I think I got the actual posts imported here.

I'm also on pinterest (mostly food & holiday stuff, some geek (steampunk & cosplay), occasionally astronomy or science) and goodreads (er, currently I seem to be reading fluff of the cozy mystery or Regency/Victorian persuasion.) Feel free to comment/dm if you want to hook up there.

(updated as of October 2019)

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Sep. 1st, 2024 05:32 pm
topaz119: (let the wild rumpus begin)
So, I bought a car yesterday. A new-to-me, black, 2021 Kia Sportage. Very exciting; very stressful, lol.

I signed all the paperwork and went to lunch with BabyBoy and then came home and collapsed on the couch for the rest of the day. The last time I bought a car was 7? 8? years ago and while it’s much easier to sort out and find availability online, it’s still A Lot.

So now I need to sell my minivan and take care of a donation of another car and then decide if we want to keep the small truck or if we want to sell that and get something actually small.

I’m exhausted just thinking of it all.

But hey, I have something I can drive through the mountains and to the beach for the upcoming trips we have in September. The minivan has 201,000 miles on it and the transmission is getting pretty dicey. No way we were going to drive that.

The day before New Car Day, Oldest, BabyBoy, and I went and got haircuts and new styles, also for the travels in September. And the day before *that*, Oldest and I went and got new glasses. It’s been a very expensive week. And that’s not even going to DragonCon this year.

It’s also a good thing it’s a long weekend here in the US because next week is bonkers at the office: an off-site fiscal year kick-off, an on-site customer visit/interview/happy hour/screen printing event that should be a free-for-all, and yet another re-org meeting. Plus, y’know, actual work that needs to happen. I promise to hydrate and sleep and eat lots of protein & veggies. Cross my heart.

(I’ll let you know how it goes, have a good Sunday night!)
topaz119: photo of chocolate cupcakes with chocolate glaze and decorated with small, upstanding heart candies (cupcakes are love)
Oof, yesterday turned out to be A Day, almost entirely due to my apparently not taking care of myself so I’m coming here to write a sternly worded letter to my brain, which I’ll cut since it’s not very exciting for the rest of you. )
topaz119: (cartoon!me)
Good morning, happy Sunday. I’m sitting in Midtown with Oldest waiting for an MRI (for them, nothing scary, just updating the baseline of their hearing issues). Radiology is running about 20 minutes late and I really could have used that for sleep this morning but here we are. For whatever reason, they’re playing the Disney version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame on the TV. It’s very disconcerting. (And now we’ve moved on to Pocahontas, which is equally weird.)

this got long )
topaz119: (hanging on)
Still here, still employed at the crazy place of business, still unpacking the house. (I’m finally getting sort of close on the last one)

I disappeared b/c we did a family trip to Disney World where we really did all of the parks. I know we go all the time but mostly we’re just hanging out with friends or hitting maybe one park. This was full-tilt, hitting all the new rides and snacking our way through the day. It was a ton of fun but holy crap was it hot. Just ridiculous, close to 100 degrees (F) every day. Our next trip like this will be in the dead of winter, no joke.

So, yeah, I was scrambling there at the end to get my schedule clear at the office and get things set up at the house for our sweet friend who comes and stays with the berserker dog (he looooooves her, and she spoils him outrageously so it’s like he has a mini staycation, too)

And then I’ve contracted what is essentially con crud from the gazillion people I was around (I’ve tested negative for everything, but I’m hacking and sneezing and sound like I’ve been smoking two packs a day for my entire life.) I took a day of sick leave and somehow decided I should wash the slipcovers on my living room furniture, so that’s been A Thing.

Also, I managed to smash my phone pretty thoroughly while dealing with all the Disney app stuff so I had to go get a new one (it was more than 4 years old & wasn’t really holding much of a charge so I didn’t feel too spendy about it.)

And now, there’s weirdness happening with the thermostat attached to the AC/furnace and the transmission is dying on my car so it’s definitely back to normal life after our sojourn in the Disney bubble, sigh. At least tomorrow is Friday though we’re starting a new work book club & Amazon says my book was delivered while we were away (with pictures and all) but I have yet to unearth it so I should go do that in order to have a good base for my irritation that we are yet again reading a tech bro book rather than just assuming it’s going to irritate the fuck out of me just on sight.


Also, also, here’s my entry in the what-fic-trope-are-you** questionaire:

fix-it

you don't have time for this 'making your barbies kiss' bullshit; the world is fucked, and you're here to do something about it! (the thing you're doing about it is making your barbies kiss)


**my memory is a little iffy here but I’m sure you’ve seen this around
topaz119: (TrickC)
Of course the only thing that’s broken my fascination with the utter disaster that is the British royal family’s PR "strategy" (please see the comprehensive timeline at the bottom of this article) would be my beloved Sparkly Dancing Boys (who I freely acknowledge are not too sparkly, not dancing a whole lot, and are no longer boys, but once an SDB, always an SDB) ON STAGE TOGETHER.

(I do have thoughts, like that Lance looks fabulous, and that somebody needs to persuade JC to shave (and to not do whatever it is that he’s doing with his hair these days), and that it’s terribly convenient timing for this to happen after Timberlake decided to demonstrate just how far he could shove his head up his ass when talking about Britney, but mostly my brain is just shrieking and twirling with GLEEEEEE.)

(Also, my Millennial & GenZ coworkers seem convinced that a Vegas residency is in the cards so that’s a thing in my brain, too.)
topaz119: (somanybooks)
Going into the office is still kicking my butt, but it’s Wednesday so let’s talk about books.

I am frolicking amidst the fae what with being 5 hours into ACOTAR on audiobook (only 11 more to go, eyeroll) and just finishing Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies. I am enjoying/did enjoy both, especially the found family in Emily Wilde because we all know how much I love that trope.

I’m also enjoying a renaissance of Scottish historical fiction because after our trip there last spring, I started hunting for the books I read and loved as a teenager that I found myself remembering as we were tramping through Skye and Inverness and Edinburgh. I need more books like I need an income tax audit, but I’m very happy to say that I managed to find The Bride of the McHugh (in the best paperback edition) and The Hepburn at used bookstores, and Elizabeth Peters' Legend in Green Velvet is on Audible. So I’m luxuriating in all of that. (At some point, I have to tell you all about the utterly fabulous tour guides my sister-in-law found who were very happy to haul us around to all of the proper Stuart historical sites and fulfill my teenage (VERY pre-Outlander) dreams of castles and kilts, but that’s going to take a photo dump and more brain power than I have at my disposal right now.)

Read well & have good week!
topaz119: (let the wild rumpus begin)
Hi, hello, good morning!

I have to be at the office today and my hair is still wringing wet and it’s trash day and I don’t have anything out to the curb yet and all is chaos, but hey, Happy Pączki Day!

I could not make the journey out to the sole Polish bakery in all of Northern Georgia, but Publix came through and while they’re not the greatest of jelly donuts, they fit the bill and I miiiiiight be on a sugar high.

The weather was wild last night, very windy and the trees were dropping branches like crazy. I think one of my cheap plastic chairs got taken out but I don’t think had any roof damage, fingers crossed.

That’s all that’s happening here; I’m gonna go dry my hair and take the trash out And try to de-cortisol my body before I have to drive into the city.

Happy Fat Tuesday to you all!
topaz119: (let the wild rumpus begin)
So, it turns out that having to pack up all my stuff and schlep it into the city two days a week to fulfill the company is mandate for “hybrid” work is freaking exhausting. About all I’m able to do when I get home is lie on the couch and scroll TikTok, which is not, as the kids say, a romantic life. I like the people I work with I & I like being able to see my team & the new building is very nice, so at least there’s that. But yeah, I can’t even muster the mental energy to open a book when I get home. BabyBoy and I went through all the things I have on my To Be Watched list and decided that I could possibly put on the second season of Welcome to Wrexham and/or Suits and at least not be completely out of pocket. Stay tuned for updates (I know you’re all dying to find out how it goes. My life is so exciting.)

In other unsurprising news, hitting Costco on the day before the Super Bowl is not a really good idea, not even if you get there when they open. I just totally forgot that the Super Bowl was tomorrow and the whole upcoming week’s food and meal prepping was based on having all that stuff in the house today. At least I did get there early; it was actually almost chill for the first 15 minutes, but then the hordes arrived and I got through check out just in front of the serious lines. Now I just have to get the food production line rolling.

In actually surprising news, last week while I was desperate to find something to listen to as I cleaned/unpacked, I came across a Court of Thorns and Roses on audio at the library just sitting there on the Available Now filter, ready & waiting to be checked out. I’ve sort of missed the romantasy wave and I don’t know if I’m gonna manage to get through all of the dozen books in this and related series, but it seemed like a sign so I grabbed it. It’s like 16 hours long and now when I look, there are 8 people waiting for it, so I’m going to have to finish it in one go because once the library yank it back, I’ll be waiting half a year to get it again. So now you know what will be in my earbuds for the next two weeks, night & day.
topaz119: (glass candles)
Hello and happy Friday! I have fixed a cocktail and put my feet up and am ready to let the weekend begin.

The first week of return to office has been checked off the list, yay. The new office is actually really nice and I feel like I can find enough places to work that are quiet and tucked out of the way, but it’s still more than a little annoying to have to go in. I’m trying to keep in mind how much baby!engineer!topaz wanted to work in “the city“ and have a fancy office. I’d really like to have a private office rather than just a desk that I have to reserve every time I go in , but the rest of it is all there. And they feed us. I’m trying to focus on all the good things about this change.

I also can’t believe that we’ve gotten through January. I’m usually deep in the throes of hating the world at this point, but it’s been a pretty chill month. I’ve leaned hard into candles and twinkly lights and generally wrapping up in quilts and what not, and that seems to have done the trick, at least so far. (see above, re: cocktail in hand). Speaking of candles, I found the box of my stash, and have been running a candle spa the last few days. We’ve put new wicks in where necessary, and fixed up the tunneling issues and sorted them all by fragrance profile. I feel very accomplished .

At some point, I need to collect up all the random, wonderful fic recommendations I’ve been accumulating and share them out. I’m still not at the point of being able to write but once again fandom has provided so much wonderful distraction and the very least I can do is share them with you all. Maybe this weekend?

::kisses::
topaz119: (let the wild rumpus begin)
The weather warmed up over the week enough that now we’re cloudy and rainy and foggy. It took a long time for the sky to lighten this morning, but it did, which is better than the alternative, yeah? I remain bemused that I’m getting up early enough to watch the process.

I survived the work offsite days, though there were times that I was texting madly, just to keep my sanity. I started off the week by standing up to correct some misconceptions and then having a microphone handed to me so I could continue to engage with the people who didn’t know what they were talking about. It was like live, in-person version of someone being wrong on the Internet, where you know you really shouldn’t engage, but you do because they’re wrong. I mean, this is what I actually do for a living and have done for decades, and as I might’ve mentioned, they were WRONG. So, yeah, that was fun. And I kept getting recognized by the sales guys throughout the rest of the assemblies. Even more fun. /s

So the rest of the week is just trying to keep up, and catch back up, and continuing to unpack and re-organize the house. BabyBoy is back on his baking routine, so we have had chocolate chip cookies and brioche rolls (that we used to create some very tasty steak sandwiches), and some overnight bread which we’re gonna use with the French onion soup I made last week. It may be very dark and gloomy but we are eating very well.

And in emotional news, I said goodbye to L yesterday. They closed on their house and are heading to stay with family in Connecticut while they start their hunt for an apartment in Manhattan. Plus, I start back two days in the office next week, so this is like a whole new chapter of daily life. There are pluses and minuses to both – – I mean, having a place to stay in Manhattan when I hit NYC is not bad – – and apparently the new office is very nice, but y’know. Changes. So stressful.

at least we’ve made it to Friday so enjoy your weekend!
topaz119: (teatime)
I have to be in Midtown this week for an offsite, work-related thing that starts at the ungodly hour of 8 AM (which I am so not happy about) so I’ve been getting up early so I can fall asleep early enough that I’m not completely wiped out when I have to leave my house a little after 7 to arrive in a timely fashion and launch into my best extrovert cosplay. Oddly enough, the best part about all of this is that I’m out in the living room before sunrise (because if I stay in the bedroom, I’ll just go right back to sleep) and I’ve been watching the day lighten as I have my first Diet Coke and go through all my feeds. The windows in the living room face southwest-ish so I don’t actually get to see the sunrise per se, but I do get to see the sky lighten around the tree branches of the woods at the back of our property. I’d still rather be asleep but it’s not a bad way to start the day.

I did finally get all the holiday decorations packed and properly returned to their storage area, which I also cleaned out with the help of BabyBoy. Yay? If I didn’t have to go pick up some packages I accidentally had sent to L’s, I might actually get the last of the boxes from the reno out of the living room. Regardless of the exact timing, though, the end (at least for this room) is in sight. That’s really a yay!

In other random work-related news, we move into our new office tomorrow and we have to start going in a couple days a week. They’re dangling all sorts of goodies (with middling success) in front of us to make the RTO order policy seem less heavy-handed, one of which is an on-site barista. I don’t actually drink coffee (hence the pre-dawn Diet Cokes), but far be it from me to not take advantage of a perk so I’ve been trying out various tea options. My favorite so far is a London fog (Earl Grey tea plus steamed milk) but I’m accepting suggestions so please tell me all about your favorite fancy tea drinks. ♥
topaz119: (winter)
Addendum to yesterday‘s semi-incoherent post:

The anime the kids have started me on watching is Freiren: After Journeys End; and it’s available on Crunchyroll. Very pretty, very emotional and thoughtful, at least so far.

And the Connections answer that had me in fits was WORDS SPELLED WITH AN UPSIDE-DOWN CALCULATOR, ffs. (The answers were BOOB, EGGSHELL, GIGGLE, HELLO).

…and now, books.

I finished A Holly Jolly Ever After, and I’d say it was a pretty decent popslash novel. A solid three stars.

I meant to start reading the next Sebastian St. Cyr mystery, but was not in the mood for Regency murders and plots etc. so I ended up starting the audiobook of Somewhere Safe With Someone Good, by Jan Karon while I fiddled with packing up the holiday decorations. It’s one of her Father Tim/Mitford novels; I don’t know if it’s the most recent, but it’s the most recent I haven’t read. Very, exceedingly cozy.

I also started reading Miss Buncle‘s Book for some reason. (I think I got off on a tangent that involved KJ Charles’s favorite books for the last few years and realized I already had gotten that one on some sale day or another so I started that. Probably while taking a hot bath (I do love the giant freestanding tub I put in during the reno.))

And then, my hold on Rhys Bowen’s most recent Lady Georgie cosy mystery came in, so I started that too.

Your guess is as good as mine as to what I finish first, lol, and the rest are what I’ll be reading next.

Stay warm!
topaz119: (winter)
The Tuesday after a three-day weekend is always a slog but I think this Tuesday is the worst of the worst… You’re barely back focusing from having a couple weeks off over the holidays and then you get a three-day weekend and I swear my brain just forgets all about how it is that I make money, completely and totally.

As with the rest of the US, we’re having cold weather. No snow or rain or sleet but temperatures not reaching freezing. Most of the schools are either on delay or closed outright so everybody’s scrambling for childcare and that’s not helping with this most Monday of Tuesdays.

Because it was a long weekend, BabyBoy and I engaged in some cooking projects, mostly involving pasta. We made a durum wheat spaghetti and a more eggy fettuccine with a gochujang sauce on the spaghetti and an fully-involved Bolognese for the fettuccine. It all turned out well and it was fun, which is my excuse for not getting the holiday decorations put away, because by the time I cleaned up pasta making twice as many days I was too tired to be lugging boxes around.

And more fannish news, the kids have me watching an anime that is about an elf who is going back for another DND-ish quest after after her original adventuring party did the thing and returned home as heroes and then grew old and died while she’s more or less immortal. It’s very sweet and I’d tell you the name of it if I could remember it, but basically I say, ‘I wanna watch an episode of the elf show' and somebody pulls up an anime watching site and we watch. Fortunately, it’s dubbed so I don’t have to squint at the TV and read subtitles.

Also in fannish news, I joined [community profile] getyourwordsout, so maybe I’ll get back into writing fun things…?

Alsoalso, the purple row in today’s Connections was ridiculous, y/y

Be safe, stay warm, ♥ !
topaz119: (let the wild rumpus begin)
I’d planned to go in to the office this afternoon because it’s the last day we can get into our funky, historic little office building; we’re moving to a new corporate-chic building the week after next, so today was gonna be my day to say goodbye while I picked up my new parking pass. I even did my hair and make-up and found a cute outfit and I was just about to step out the door when the slack messages started about schools going into early dismissal because of severe weather, and yeah, no. Not driving in tornado weather.

So. Bye, office. I’ve heard they’re moving a lot of the art and the tiki room, but I’m guessing the yarn-bombed pillars and a lot of the murals aren’t portable. We’ll see. The project manager overseeing the buildout was publicly bemused that after 20 years in the business he was working with an art coordinator so maybe more than I expect will make the transfer.

As part of my wrap-up for 2023, I sat and thought about what did and didn’t work for me over the year, which I will put behind a cut so you can fly right by if you’re not interested (it’s really not terribly exciting but if I post them here, my brain will hopefully take it as a 'we’re done now' signal & move on …)

what worked 👍 )

what didn’t work 👎 )

Thanks for reading, have a lovely weekend
topaz119: (somanybooks)
Since it’s Wednesday, let’s talk about books…

I read 84 books in 2023, which is the most I’ve read in a lot of years decades. I’m pretty pleased with that. I’m also pleased that I followed up on an idea from one of the many book podcasts in my audio rotation to create a project for my reading. Somewhere in the middle of driving back from Orlando in January of 2023, I decided I could read all of Jane Austen. I just finished Persuasion to wrap up all of her completed and published novels, and am starting in on her unfinished writings and her juvenilia. There’s a satisfying checkmark next to all of this in my head so I think once I finish up all the loose ends there I’m going to set my next project to reading Ursula K LeGuin, at least the Earthsea cycle and the Hainish universe.

I dislike having to pick "the best" books I’ve read, but the ones that have stuck in my head are Spare, Prince Harry’s memoir, which I listened to as I was packing out the kitchen. I’m firmly in the audiobook camp for this one; I don’t think I could’ve kept reading it on the page. And then there’s the Spoiler Alert trilogy, because you have to admire someone who took her frustration with the debacle that was the final season of Game of Thrones and turned it into her own blockbuster-fantasy-series-falling-apart-at-the-end-of-its-run setting, and then writing happy endings for the actors. Quite possibly, we know this person.

…and now for the traditional Wednesday book meme

done
As mentioned above, I just finished Persuasion by Jane Austin, and really, is there anything better than "… I am half agony, half hope"? I do love the trio of sea captains, how supportive and caring they are for each other but I was listening to this in the car as we were driving over the holidays and #2Son was up in the front seat with me and just kept saying 'oh my God these people are awful' every time Anne's family showed up, which, fair.

reading now
I currently am in the middle of a A Holly Jolly Ever After which is the second of (I’m assuming) a trio of romances that lean to the very spicy side with the members of a former boyband finding love while filming softcore porn Hallmark Christmas movies… I feel like I for real have to know these writers from back in the popslash days, lol. This one has a lot to say about purity culture and the terrible standards to which we as a society hold women so it’s not *just* sex although there is a lot of it.

up next
I have the most recent Sebastian St Cyr mystery and also the one before it because it’s been so long since I’ve read them I honestly don’t remember where we are in that series. I’ve had them out long enough that I just renewed them, so I should really get on them before the library starts yelling at me to bring them back.
topaz119: (glass candles)
Hello! Happy 2024!

It’s been a minute, yeah? I have still been around, as some of you can attest given the random commenting here and there, but I just could never quite bring myself to gather my thoughts enough to post. I don’t know that I’m gonna be able to do that for very long now, but I really want to ease back into writing for fun, and coming back and chatting with you all seems like a good way to start that.

So… Hi!

I’m taking January to reflect on 2023 and get some sort of plan in for 2024, so you’ll probably see some random end-of-year polls and memes before I get my act in gear and start trying to figure out what we’re doing going forward. (i’m always astonished by all the people who just hit the ground running on January 1. The run up to Christmas around here is such a madhouse that I’ve barely caught my breath by then even before you added in the fact that we travel that week after Christmas. I’m staggering back in here on January 3, looking at the disaster that we left behind and having nothing really planned for the new year. So this year I’m leaning into it and doing all the reflecting and planning in January.)

In other news, it’s a dark and gloomy day today. Very gray and rainy. But my Christmas tree is still up (because it’s always still up at this time, let’s be real), so I switched it to very low white lights and have all of my candles going. Plus! We built a book tree this year and that’s going in a different corner, so it’s somewhat cozy to sit here and watch the rain & wind go on outside of the windows. (For those of you who are new or just haven’t seen anything for me for a year, the main room has double French doors and there’s a giant window in the dining room, looking out over the woods out back and for real, this storm is something. Every now and then a wind gust hits, and the trees all lean waaaay over, which is a little disconcerting. But the doggo and I are thoroughly wrapped up in our cozy nest, so I’m hoping the power stays on – – and the Internet too – – and we'll have a good day.)

On that note, it’s definitely a soup day, so I’m gonna go figure out what I have in the pantry, maybe get that started. Have a good day, y’all!

::waves::

Jan. 25th, 2023 09:10 pm
topaz119: (LancePsychedelic)
Believe it or not, I'm still here -- I even read my flist/circle more days than not, though commenting is almost as rare as posting. Things are fine, just a lot going on, and while the remodel on the house is progressing well (::knocks on wood::) it's like moving into a new house but in slow motion, with boxes everywhere and more trash than I want to think about. (Seriously. 3 of the big dumpsters and we're about to call in #4 for the kitchen demo, oy.)

Anyway!

I really don't want to drag all that in here, because I got hit with a nostalgia wave today...

To my popslash girls: did we* know that Lance (with Michael as cohost) has a new podcast, about boybands, and that his first three guests have been JC, AJ, and Jonathon Knight from NKOTB?

(*Well, I'm mean, obviously, I didn't know, but possibly I am not hopelessly behind the times? *koff* Yeah, don't answer that.)

Anyway. I listened to the JC episode, which was super fun and I've seen some Insta/TikTok clips of the other two and I must say, it's made cleaning out today's cupboard (see above, re: slow-motion-house-move, dear god they're going to demo the kitchen in like 3 weeks, ACK) somewhat less of a slog.

ALSO. I was running around Target looking for decent towels that don't cost FIFTY DOLLARS EACH, holy *$%#!, and I saw this, in the year of our Lord 2023 Read more... )

Like, seriously? 2023?

I guess it's somewhat apropos that the Sparkly Dancing Boys dragged a post out of me, yeah? (And just so you know, once I typed out the post, I had to find the picture, remember how to email it to my account, be bewildered why I couldn't find my Lance icon, realize my account had reverted to free, find my wallet, and pay for the account renewal with the extra icons, so let's hear it for my executive functioning, y'all!)

Have a good rest of the week and let's hope my brain stays un-overwhelmed enough that I can post a little more frequently, ♥ to you all
topaz119: (path through the woods)
It’s been an exhausting few weeks, for sure. I had a release last week + an online symposium with all the content designers/writers/creators across the many brands that Overlord!Company owns, and then this week, we had an in-person conference with all of the customer education ppls in the original (pre-acquisition) company, which was the first time I’d really been to the office (I started right when the world shut down.) it’s by far the coolest physical office I’ve ever worked at (there’s a tiki room and yarn-bombing and pop-tarts in the kitchens, among many other features) and I enjoyed going in but holy yikes but I am WORN OUT from all of it. I wore actual clothes! There was make-up application in the morning! A travel mug in my car! So many people! All around me! Yowza.

I’m looking forward to pulling a sweatshirt on over my nightgown tomorrow and working from my bed once again.

In other news, they’re laying tile in the bathrooms and the new cabinets are installed. The whole process is moving on and we’re about a month out from expected completion dates but I’m really ready for this all to be DONE.

At some point here I need to watch Andor and She-Hulk and the library just zapped a whack of books into my account but mostly I’ve just been watching the Weather Channel and letting Oldest hook me up with documentaries. And enjoying our actual weather because it finally decided it was okay to let go of summer. Hope you’re all doing well!

books

Sep. 21st, 2022 01:30 pm
topaz119: (somanybooks)
When last we chatted, my internet was goooooone (gone!) but they were able to get me onto fiber at a not-overwhelming price, so, yay, I'm not tethering my work laptop through my phone. (It's an exciting life, I know, but it is what it is.)

In actually exciting news, my new, 66-inch long soaking tub just got carried into the house. (squee) I'm hoping to be able to take a celebratory Halloween bath.

okay, it's Wednesday and I actually finished a few books last week, so let's do it

read
Our Crooked Hearts, Melissa Albert == Witchy, multi-generational, lots of female friendships.

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, Hank Green == The sequel to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing which is less a sequel and more the second half of the story but it does finish things off. I had a long split between the books, but #2 read them back-to-back and he also felt it was a good wrap-up.

reading
Portrait of a Thief, Grace D. Li == Ocean's Eleven with group of Chinese-American university students and priceless Chinese artifacts disappearing from Western museums. So far, I'm loving it.

next
Whatever the library sends my way...

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