Reading:The Spite House, by Johnny Compton. I’ve only just started this one—a friend recommended it and I have entirely forgotten exactly who, sorryyyyy—but so far, we’ve got a father and his two daughters on the run for reasons that haven’t been explained yet, and the father is about to take a caretaker position looking after what is described as “the most haunted house in Texas.” The younger daughter also appears to have some sort of Shining-ish powers going on, but I am literally less than 40 pages in, so I have no idea where we’re going with any of it, hahaha.
Watching: Embarrassingly, still Father Brown. We’re into Season Three now, and every time I think they’ve reached the limit of how silly it can get, they top themselves. A recurring thief of religious artifacts who is also a master of disguise? Sure! Spies? Sure! A mean lady capitalist race car driver? Sure! An asylum that is experimenting on patients, resulting in Father Brown getting himself committed in order to investigate? Sure! A bad man who steals babies from China and as if that wasn’t terrible enough, also shoots tigers and stuffs them, resulting in a conversation with Father Brown that goes something like:
Bad Man: I shot him myself, isn’t he magnificent? Father Brown (and us, IN UNISON, because at this point we are so well-versed in how this show rolls): Well, I can imagine that he WAS.
Thinking: Due to my recent “accidental” purchase, still NOT MUCH. But I’m starting to feel like my brain has had its necessary downtime & I’m about to launch back into more active brain time. I’m headed off for a state library thing today—training in solar telescope/eclipse stuff??—and it’ll be the first time I’ve interacted with new people in quite some time. That always makes me somewhat anxious and nervous because I am a profoundly awkward person in real life, so wish me luck?
Reading: Invasion, about the war in Ukraine, by Luke Harding, which is hard to read and I can do about half a chapter before needing to go off and do something else, feeling guilty as I go. I also just finished A Place for Everything, which says it's about the history of developing alphabetization but is in fact just about organazational methods of all kinds. It's quite charming but probably only to librarians. I just got Unmask Alice and am forcing myself to wait until I finish Invasion to start it.
Watching: I may have paid far too much attention to the Lori Vallow trial and then spent a week watching interviews with various jury members, siblings, cousins, and whatnot. Did Maine people even hear about that? Husband and I have been trying to watch Forrest Gump with accompanying audio reaction by a comedian we like (he'd never seen it). But Forrest Gump is TERRIBLE, and also long, and we still have nearly an hour to go. Not sure we'll manage it. So we watch old Night Court episodes instead.
Thinking: I'm in a stitching slump but a reading boom. Just 3 more days before the semester is done and it's summer! Lots about LGBT issues and my church. My brother just sent me a new song he found, and I played Oingo Boingo's Insanity for my youngest and now they're obsessed with it (we are both huge Boingo fans).
READING: the Ilona Andrews Innkeeper series and am on #4... They're really longish novellas and such a fun, take-you-out-of-this-world series... A parallel, magical Texas inn is very fun and the magical beings are very random... Giant philosophical CHICKENS are some of the current guests, holding a debate...
WATCHING: Chinese Restaurants, a miniseries based on Cheuk Kwan's Have You Eaten Yet? -- it's an old series I started when it came out but am just now finishing because it's armchair travel (which my wistful-but-homebody soul needs), people's personal stories and, of course, all the food.
THINKING: how weird food cycles are... When we moved back from Scotland (where we had a friend who ate her baked "tatties" topped with french fries and crisps, and this is neither joke nor exaggeration) I could NOT with potatoes. All in all, I was fairly sick of all root veg... This lasted about six years, and suddenly it's rebounded and I could literally eat potatoes with every meal, which is wildly abnormal and unnecessary and I was never like this before??? I feel like I'm just going to completely hate them again, because at this rate, haven't I got to??? In the meantime, I guess I'll make home fries. Again.
I'm about halfway through The Bear and the Nightingale and loving it. Also enjoying Girly Drinks by Mallory O'Meara - I used her book (Lady from the Black Lagoon) as research for my current work-in-progress.
Reading: Invasion, about the war in Ukraine, by Luke Harding, which is hard to read and I can do about half a chapter before needing to go off and do something else, feeling guilty as I go. I also just finished A Place for Everything, which says it's about the history of developing alphabetization but is in fact just about organazational methods of all kinds. It's quite charming but probably only to librarians. I just got Unmask Alice and am forcing myself to wait until I finish Invasion to start it.
Watching: I may have paid far too much attention to the Lori Vallow trial and then spent a week watching interviews with various jury members, siblings, cousins, and whatnot. Did Maine people even hear about that? Husband and I have been trying to watch Forrest Gump with accompanying audio reaction by a comedian we like (he'd never seen it). But Forrest Gump is TERRIBLE, and also long, and we still have nearly an hour to go. Not sure we'll manage it. So we watch old Night Court episodes instead.
Thinking: I'm in a stitching slump but a reading boom. Just 3 more days before the semester is done and it's summer! Lots about LGBT issues and my church. My brother just sent me a new song he found, and I played Oingo Boingo's Insanity for my youngest and now they're obsessed with it (we are both huge Boingo fans).
READING: the Ilona Andrews Innkeeper series and am on #4... They're really longish novellas and such a fun, take-you-out-of-this-world series... A parallel, magical Texas inn is very fun and the magical beings are very random... Giant philosophical CHICKENS are some of the current guests, holding a debate...
WATCHING: Chinese Restaurants, a miniseries based on Cheuk Kwan's Have You Eaten Yet? -- it's an old series I started when it came out but am just now finishing because it's armchair travel (which my wistful-but-homebody soul needs), people's personal stories and, of course, all the food.
THINKING: how weird food cycles are... When we moved back from Scotland (where we had a friend who ate her baked "tatties" topped with french fries and crisps, and this is neither joke nor exaggeration) I could NOT with potatoes. All in all, I was fairly sick of all root veg... This lasted about six years, and suddenly it's rebounded and I could literally eat potatoes with every meal, which is wildly abnormal and unnecessary and I was never like this before??? I feel like I'm just going to completely hate them again, because at this rate, haven't I got to??? In the meantime, I guess I'll make home fries. Again.
*shrug*
I'm about halfway through The Bear and the Nightingale and loving it. Also enjoying Girly Drinks by Mallory O'Meara - I used her book (Lady from the Black Lagoon) as research for my current work-in-progress.