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I had a very video oriented week (most of Downton and the last six episodes of the first season of OUAT), plus I spent 2 hours on the phone to Apple support getting some weirdness with iCloud worked out so there wasn't much reading going on, but I hate to lose my posting streak.

What I'm Reading
Still with The Billionaire's Vinegar, but the book club meets tomorrow night and whether I finish this or not, it's going back to the library on Friday. I can't tell if I'm just distracted or what, but I'm still fighting to get through this. On the other hand: good wine tomorrow night, \o/.

Also still reading The Art of Possibility, which is definitely something I'm going to have to clear a couple of hours and read straight through.

Do cookbooks count? I tend to read them like novels, so I'm counting them. This week, I've been going through Joy The Baker and let's just say there are a lot of pages bookmarked. I'm supposed to be doing a Ugh-It's-Cold-And-Gray-So-Let's-Have-Soup-In-Front-Of-A-Fire dinner party next weekend and I'm trying find something fun for dessert (other than Snickers Surprise cookies.)

What I Just Finished
Mark Oldman's wine books, which were fine, but what I want is something that will take what I like and cross-reference that with a wine list and tell me what to order. Shouldn't there be an app for that? Also, I finally sat down and read through Hawkeye #1-7 all at the same time, which was very enjoyable, except there is no comparison with how much I like David Aja's style and how meh the other artists left me.

What's Next
I fully intended to go for the latest Lady Julia/Brisbane, but then one of last week's kindle daily deals was Grave Mercy, by Robin LaFevers, which is about 15th Century nun assassins, and seriously, how can I pass on that?

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15thC nun assassins! What wine goes with that?

Your dinner party sounds wonderful!

hah, most of the book happens at the court of the Duchess of Breton so I asked my BFF's husband, who's deep into the whole wine scene (and who knows me well enough to just shrug when I ask crazy questions like that) your question. He said that it's not a huge exporting region, but they grow Muscadet grapes there, which is the same that they grow in the Loire. But you know, terroir and all, so he said he'd try to find a not horrifically-priced bottle from Brittainy.

any excuse to drink, yeah?