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Have been sewing all. day. apart from a short break out at noon to return a library book and get a bagel for lunch. See, this current project has to sit on my lap, and most days it's so hot that I can't bear to do very much of it ... but today it's ~75 in the sun and ~65 in my apartment, so I have to make the most of it. But it means that I have that weird, warmish, sleepy feeling I get when I'm not well and have stayed in bed, and I'm so tired. Taking a break, and I think I'll have a burrito for dinner so I can get another walk.
Books read lately:
Aftermath: Life Debt: Leia sends a band of rebel fighters to find Han and Chewbacca, who've gone missing while attempting to liberate Kashyyk from the remnants of the Empire. Good; not very well-written technically, but fun and fairly quick. Everyone is attracted to Han, which I approve of as IC. I may look out for the rest of the trilogy. I SHIPPED EVERYONE.
A Perfect Proposal: I've found that I really like a specific subgenre of "chicklit" - basically a romcom on paper but not in the romance genre, money and/or class and/or finding a career is central to the plot, the heroine usually has messy family issues, almost always from a British writer (Sophie Kinsella is a pretty good example). This one seemed to fit when I read the blurb in the library, but it turned out to be a dud. I finished it, so it has that going for it. But it was easily twice as long as it needed to be, and while it had the potential to be very iddy it never followed through.
Prep: Coming-of-age story about a midwesterner in an East Coast prep school. I thought it would be a bit lighter overall and satirize class issues, but from the beginning it seemed like more emphasis was on the coming-of-age. Only read a few chapters.
Now I'm reading Julian Fellows's Past Imperfect because he can satirize class issues (Belgravia is what I wanted, but it's new so none of the copies in the system are available for order), but ... I'm pretty sure he's making fun of the intensely what-about-the-good-old-days kind of guy he's often accused to being, but it comes across like he just is that kind of guy, like, painfully. I don't know if I can finish it.
Mom and Ron got their box back, btw. She hasn't told me the whole story yet, but it was not a case of someone thinking it was lost property. Ron's medication is probably gone, but Mom got her paintings and blue ribbons back, which is the main thing IMO.
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Books read lately:
Aftermath: Life Debt: Leia sends a band of rebel fighters to find Han and Chewbacca, who've gone missing while attempting to liberate Kashyyk from the remnants of the Empire. Good; not very well-written technically, but fun and fairly quick. Everyone is attracted to Han, which I approve of as IC. I may look out for the rest of the trilogy. I SHIPPED EVERYONE.
A Perfect Proposal: I've found that I really like a specific subgenre of "chicklit" - basically a romcom on paper but not in the romance genre, money and/or class and/or finding a career is central to the plot, the heroine usually has messy family issues, almost always from a British writer (Sophie Kinsella is a pretty good example). This one seemed to fit when I read the blurb in the library, but it turned out to be a dud. I finished it, so it has that going for it. But it was easily twice as long as it needed to be, and while it had the potential to be very iddy it never followed through.
Prep: Coming-of-age story about a midwesterner in an East Coast prep school. I thought it would be a bit lighter overall and satirize class issues, but from the beginning it seemed like more emphasis was on the coming-of-age. Only read a few chapters.
Now I'm reading Julian Fellows's Past Imperfect because he can satirize class issues (Belgravia is what I wanted, but it's new so none of the copies in the system are available for order), but ... I'm pretty sure he's making fun of the intensely what-about-the-good-old-days kind of guy he's often accused to being, but it comes across like he just is that kind of guy, like, painfully. I don't know if I can finish it.
Mom and Ron got their box back, btw. She hasn't told me the whole story yet, but it was not a case of someone thinking it was lost property. Ron's medication is probably gone, but Mom got her paintings and blue ribbons back, which is the main thing IMO.
Original post: http://chocolatepot.dreamwidth.org/918830.html - comment wherever you please.