randomly fannish + what I'm reading wednesday

The pictures from the red carpet/photocalls for Star Trek are going to kill me and I haven't even seen Pike yet.

My Marvel squee had been focusing on IM3 and Captain America, but then the Thor trailer hit yesterday and I was ridiculously happy to see Darcy running around, and Sif, too, and I am not sure how, but Chris Hemsworth seems to have gotten even more attractive since the last time he was striding about heroically in a cape and chain mail. Two thumbs up, yay!

I'm cleaning out my office (now that the boys have moved their gaming center to the new computer in what used to be the playroom and is now known as The Boy Cave) and streaming Warehouse 13 to make it less ugh and I'm only a couple of episodes into S3, but they really seem to have stepped up their game. Banter-y partners x 2, most excellent.

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?