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In today's News of the Mundane, I got the garbage disposal replaced at the house, almost finished packing up my office for the move and passed my annual security training on the first try (\o/).
/excitement
So, books:
finished
The Royal We == Like all the best fic (which this is, no matter that it's published), I am going to have serious difficulties keeping the lines of fanon and canon uncrossed after tearing through this. Throw in a spontaneous re-read of Drastically Redefining Protocol and my brain will never sort things out. Super-fun read.
Still The One, Jill Shalvis, which was just kind of a mess. I picked it up because I wanted to see what she did with a heroine who had physical limitations (recovering from a serious car accident) and it was nicely handled at first, but then as soon as said heroine needed to look good, out came the 4 inch FM heels, which, what? The rest of it felt just as sketched-in, and I finished it, but was sad at the wasted potential throughout.
now
Love Irresistibly, Julie James -- Came highly recommended and so far is living up to the hype.
Princes At War, which I'm pretty sure I saw on my flist/circle, about the British royal family during WWII--my mom is reading a cozy mystery set during this same time, so we're trading this one back and forth so she can see the photographs of the people she's reading about. Very readable and being able to distract my mom during this whole hospitalization mess is worth its weight in gold.
Also still reading Marie Kondo's Tidying Up book, and (lord help me) going through my closet. The boys are looking at me like I'm insane, but I have done the folding thing on all of my shirts and am starting in on theirs. We'll see how this works when I get to my books. (Oh, and I KonMari'd my desk, too, since the new workspace is all hyper-modern and open and small and I won't have room for all my fun stuff. I'm not sure I recognize myself here!)
next
no telling
/excitement
So, books:
finished
The Royal We == Like all the best fic (which this is, no matter that it's published), I am going to have serious difficulties keeping the lines of fanon and canon uncrossed after tearing through this. Throw in a spontaneous re-read of Drastically Redefining Protocol and my brain will never sort things out. Super-fun read.
Still The One, Jill Shalvis, which was just kind of a mess. I picked it up because I wanted to see what she did with a heroine who had physical limitations (recovering from a serious car accident) and it was nicely handled at first, but then as soon as said heroine needed to look good, out came the 4 inch FM heels, which, what? The rest of it felt just as sketched-in, and I finished it, but was sad at the wasted potential throughout.
now
Love Irresistibly, Julie James -- Came highly recommended and so far is living up to the hype.
Princes At War, which I'm pretty sure I saw on my flist/circle, about the British royal family during WWII--my mom is reading a cozy mystery set during this same time, so we're trading this one back and forth so she can see the photographs of the people she's reading about. Very readable and being able to distract my mom during this whole hospitalization mess is worth its weight in gold.
Also still reading Marie Kondo's Tidying Up book, and (lord help me) going through my closet. The boys are looking at me like I'm insane, but I have done the folding thing on all of my shirts and am starting in on theirs. We'll see how this works when I get to my books. (Oh, and I KonMari'd my desk, too, since the new workspace is all hyper-modern and open and small and I won't have room for all my fun stuff. I'm not sure I recognize myself here!)
next
no telling
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