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Aug. 18th, 2021 09:54 pmI've been trying to pop in here more regularly, but D is having continuing complications & nobody's sleeping much, so all is off-kilter here. We saw a new neurologist today, who had some ideas (he's the guy everybody has been wanting us to see but who literally had no open appointments in all of 2021 when we first started trying to schedule him in February.) So, we'll see how his ideas go, but I'm not counting on anything happening tonight.
At some point, I will probably have something to say about what Disney just did to their FastPass program, but honestly, I am too tired to even try to figure it out today.
Anyway, it's Wednesday and I missed last week, so ... books!
read
Beth and Amy, Virginia Kantra, the second of the modern AU of Little Women, which again, worked better than I feared it might. Laurie is less of a pain; Amy is much more sympathetic; Beth has an actual character arc. (I'm not sure I'm totally into it, but it *was* there.) My favorite, though, was Aunt March (Aunt Phee here.) And for you total Alcott geeks, Kantra even manages to work in a few of the boys from when Jo had the school in the original books. Also, I found myself slipping into 'seeing' the various actors from the most recent movie, especially Meryl Streep. So, yeah, enjoyable, if at times it felt like I was reading a yuletide story rather than a pro work.
The Lady Travelers Guide to Scoundrels & Other Gentlemen and its prequel novella, The Proper Way to Stop a Wedding in Seven Days or Less, Victoria Alexander -- Very light historical romances, Victorian era. Perfectly pleasant, if a little forgettable; but I did enjoy the setting of the main novel in Paris during the 1889 World's Fair/Exposition.
currently reading
Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad, a memoir which I'm listening to as read by the author. So, this is an illness memoir, very well-done, but a little bit much to deal with as I'm also dealing with D and his ongoing medical stuff. I let it go back to the library about half-finished and will see if I can carry on when my loan comes back up in a month or two.
The Windsor Knot, SJ Morris, a maybe-not-so-cozy mystery starring Queen Elizabeth and her under-secretary of something or another, a youngish Nigerian woman who E ropes into helping her investigate when a performer at Windsor is found dead (in putatively compromising circumstances) and the police/MI5 are being idiots. It was an Audible deal of the day, and so far, listening to the various staff members trying to figure out how to tell The Queen that her nice Russian pianist apparently accidentally killed himself in the midst of a nice go at some auto-erotic asphyxiation in her attic has been worth every dime I paid.
Also still working on West With the Night and Rogue Squadron, but no real progress on either of those.
next
Whatever the library serves up...
At some point, I will probably have something to say about what Disney just did to their FastPass program, but honestly, I am too tired to even try to figure it out today.
Anyway, it's Wednesday and I missed last week, so ... books!
read
Beth and Amy, Virginia Kantra, the second of the modern AU of Little Women, which again, worked better than I feared it might. Laurie is less of a pain; Amy is much more sympathetic; Beth has an actual character arc. (I'm not sure I'm totally into it, but it *was* there.) My favorite, though, was Aunt March (Aunt Phee here.) And for you total Alcott geeks, Kantra even manages to work in a few of the boys from when Jo had the school in the original books. Also, I found myself slipping into 'seeing' the various actors from the most recent movie, especially Meryl Streep. So, yeah, enjoyable, if at times it felt like I was reading a yuletide story rather than a pro work.
The Lady Travelers Guide to Scoundrels & Other Gentlemen and its prequel novella, The Proper Way to Stop a Wedding in Seven Days or Less, Victoria Alexander -- Very light historical romances, Victorian era. Perfectly pleasant, if a little forgettable; but I did enjoy the setting of the main novel in Paris during the 1889 World's Fair/Exposition.
currently reading
Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad, a memoir which I'm listening to as read by the author. So, this is an illness memoir, very well-done, but a little bit much to deal with as I'm also dealing with D and his ongoing medical stuff. I let it go back to the library about half-finished and will see if I can carry on when my loan comes back up in a month or two.
The Windsor Knot, SJ Morris, a maybe-not-so-cozy mystery starring Queen Elizabeth and her under-secretary of something or another, a youngish Nigerian woman who E ropes into helping her investigate when a performer at Windsor is found dead (in putatively compromising circumstances) and the police/MI5 are being idiots. It was an Audible deal of the day, and so far, listening to the various staff members trying to figure out how to tell The Queen that her nice Russian pianist apparently accidentally killed himself in the midst of a nice go at some auto-erotic asphyxiation in her attic has been worth every dime I paid.
Also still working on West With the Night and Rogue Squadron, but no real progress on either of those.
next
Whatever the library serves up...
