In news of RL, the tech writing society's annual convention is in town this year, and is it bad that I am happy that no one else from my office is going so I don't have to defer to the group taste for lunch but can happily plan out my dining strategy to hit all the in-town restaurants I usually don't get to visit? AND get to expense it? Because I really am excited about that.
...and books!
What I'm reading now
In The Kitchen With A Good Appetite, by Melissa Clark - she eats like I do, except her first love is French while mine is Italian. There are still a couple of recipes I want to try, though this isn't, strictly speaking, a cookbook. It's like sitting around and going through a friend's collection of recipes and getting the story behind the food.
Also, #2 is reading Pride & Prejudice for school, so I'm happily reading along with that, too. And watching All The Adaptations. And Oldest read Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe), and I ended up reading along with that, too.
What I just finished
The Madness Underneath, by Maureen Johnson, which is the sequel to The Name of the Star and... I don't want to spoil anyone, so I'll just say that I enjoyed this, it picked up almost immediately after the first book, things moved along briskly and I thought I knew what was going to happen right up until... I didn't. I hate waiting for next books, but that's where I am now.
What I'm reading next
I've had Maisie Dobbs out of the library twice now and not gotten to it--third time charm?