randomly fannish + what I'm reading wednesday

[topaz119]

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?

Comments

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

Dayum they look good! I cannot wait for that movie and possibly for the rps .

I am behind in watching the Austen adaptations--that may be my summer project!

I'd be excited about expense-d lunches of my own choosing too--enjoy!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

My former babysitter now writes for the food section of the AJC -- we're having tea tomorrow (a proper Southern tea, with finger sandwiches and some kind of frozen jello concoction) and she promises to bring her list of favorite restaurants. I can't wait!

I watched all the adaptations a couple of years ago when I was writing that Regency AU for spn_j2_bigbang. It was more Heyer than Austen, but I felt it was a reasonable excuse to have S&S on repeat in the DVD player. :D

ALL THE RPS. YES. (WITH ZOE, TOO.)

[rogoblue.livejournal.com]

Read Maisie Dobbs. Liked it but haven't gotten to any of the sequels yet.

Nearly done with Barrayar. What's The Name of the Star? Love the title of the sequel by the way.

Also like the idea of the cookbook that's not. Perhaps you should write the Italian version.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

The Name of the Star is a YA paranormal set in contemporary London that pulled me in with how it used the Jack the Ripper case to frame the modern-day goings-on. I will say that she is very good at setting things up Just So, so that when it all falls down I could only go 'ooooooooo.'

Very very quick reads, but fun.

T is home in a week and is bringing the rest of the Vorkosigan books with him so I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next.

I should get my act together and do something with my grandmother's recipes -- I managed to get them copied and sent to my brother/cousins, but I'd really like to do more -- find pictures and write what I remember and pull it all together in a book format.

But first, I am going to get annual picture books done, dammit. I got 2012, but hit a roadblock in that no one seems to have pictures of Beach Week 2011 which we all find incredibly perplexing, as there were several highly embarrassing events that we know were documented photographically (see also: Facebook, why mine is locked down and nobody from work is allowed to see photos where I'm tagged.)