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Nov. 13th, 2019 01:43 pmI’m still not finishing much reading-wise this fall. My brain is just not holding onto things, but I have a few bits and pieces this Wednesday.
read/listen
finished
She Said, Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey – I listened to the audiobook of this (because that’s what version came in first on my library hold list) and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get through. Very compelling, though the last quarter/third dealt with the less triumphant Supreme Court nomination hearings and so were sobering.
now
I have the following books started:
The Rules of Magic, Alice Hoffman
Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare
Lionheart, Sharon Kay Penman (audio)
The Bride Test, Helen Hoang
None of them are calling out to me at the moment, though all of them seem like things I’d like and have been perfectly pleasant as I started them. ::sighs::
next
I have the following stack out from the library, yet to be started:
Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy : The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters, Anne Boyd Rioux
The Vanished Bride, Bella Ellis
The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory
The Antidote: Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, Oliver Burkeman
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, Kevin Kelly
The Wedding Party, Jasmine Guillory
Heart of the Moors, Holly Black
Royal Holiday, Jasmine Guillory
This does not count the half-dozen or so books I’ve snagged off of Amazon’s deal of the day or my Audible library that is spiraling out of control.
If I had to guess, I’d say I’ll skip the Guillory backlist and go straight for Royal Holiday (we all know my Modern Royal love + holidays!) with a possible side trip to Holly Black’s Maleficent backstory in Heart of the Moors.
But who knows, really.
watch
netflix
I’m back on Hell On Wheels, which my brain is *loving* but which gives me nightmares sometimes for its period-appropriate blood/gore/dirt/attitudes. Like I told a friend, Cullen Bohannon is who Malcolm Reynolds thought he was but never quite got that far gone, and the writers thoroughly enjoy twisting that metaphorical knife they’ve got stuck in his guts. I can only take so much of this at a time, though. (If nobody is digging foreign objects out of the human body in any one episode, it’s because everyone is rolling around in the mud or stabbing someone or hanging someone or having PTSD flashbacks to same. There’s a fridged wife, but most of the female characters have agency and wants and needs and desires and work to find their own way in life. It’s enough to balance out for me now.)
youtube
I have this big copy/paste project going on at the office, so I knock off an hour a day and stream/listen to Critical Role while I do the mindless stuff. I just started Campaign 2; this might never end.
I also watch a fair amount of the Disney Food Blog (her voice is suuuuper-soothing and she knows her WDW stuff, highly recommend)
There’s also the Bon Appetit channel, which I’m finding very entertaining for commuting.
I haven’t been to the movies in so long… maybe Spiderman: Far From Home….? I think I missed Hustlers in the theaters, but I’d love to see Last Christmas and Little Women and the Rise of Skywalker over the holidays.
I’m doing fairly well on NaNo, which really sucks up all my spare time, so maybe by the end of the month I’ll shake a little time free…
Have a good day/night!
read/listen
finished
She Said, Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey – I listened to the audiobook of this (because that’s what version came in first on my library hold list) and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get through. Very compelling, though the last quarter/third dealt with the less triumphant Supreme Court nomination hearings and so were sobering.
now
I have the following books started:
None of them are calling out to me at the moment, though all of them seem like things I’d like and have been perfectly pleasant as I started them. ::sighs::
next
I have the following stack out from the library, yet to be started:
This does not count the half-dozen or so books I’ve snagged off of Amazon’s deal of the day or my Audible library that is spiraling out of control.
If I had to guess, I’d say I’ll skip the Guillory backlist and go straight for Royal Holiday (we all know my Modern Royal love + holidays!) with a possible side trip to Holly Black’s Maleficent backstory in Heart of the Moors.
But who knows, really.
watch
netflix
I’m back on Hell On Wheels, which my brain is *loving* but which gives me nightmares sometimes for its period-appropriate blood/gore/dirt/attitudes. Like I told a friend, Cullen Bohannon is who Malcolm Reynolds thought he was but never quite got that far gone, and the writers thoroughly enjoy twisting that metaphorical knife they’ve got stuck in his guts. I can only take so much of this at a time, though. (If nobody is digging foreign objects out of the human body in any one episode, it’s because everyone is rolling around in the mud or stabbing someone or hanging someone or having PTSD flashbacks to same. There’s a fridged wife, but most of the female characters have agency and wants and needs and desires and work to find their own way in life. It’s enough to balance out for me now.)
youtube
I have this big copy/paste project going on at the office, so I knock off an hour a day and stream/listen to Critical Role while I do the mindless stuff. I just started Campaign 2; this might never end.
I also watch a fair amount of the Disney Food Blog (her voice is suuuuper-soothing and she knows her WDW stuff, highly recommend)
There’s also the Bon Appetit channel, which I’m finding very entertaining for commuting.
I haven’t been to the movies in so long… maybe Spiderman: Far From Home….? I think I missed Hustlers in the theaters, but I’d love to see Last Christmas and Little Women and the Rise of Skywalker over the holidays.
I’m doing fairly well on NaNo, which really sucks up all my spare time, so maybe by the end of the month I’ll shake a little time free…
Have a good day/night!
