all the scenes I saw left me wanting more
Last night, L and I met up for beer and nachos at the bar, and even though I don't think I've been there more than twice in the last six months, the bartenders still remembered both our drink and food preferences (I just like all the stuff for my nachos on the side, okay. except for the cheese. that should still be melted right on there), which is nice. But I had three pints of Blue Moon, so I was a little tipsy during Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I don't think that's why I laughed so much though. The show is just funny. The cold open was amazing:
Holt: I was Hula-hooping. Kevin and I attend a class for fitness and for fun. I've mastered all the moves: the "Pizza Toss", the "Tornado", the "Scorpion", the "Oopsie-Doodle".
Peralta: Why are you telling me this?!
Holt: Because no one will ever believe you.
Also, is there anything better than talking about a story with someone and suddenly realizing you know how to fix it? Such a good feeling. *happy sigh*
I was trying to wait to post until I actually finished the book I'm reading - only 50 pages left! - but my lunch hour was repeatedly interrupted, so I didn't get to do it.
What I've just finished
Nothing yet! So close and yet so far!
What I'm currently reading
Still The Second World War by Antony Beevor. The Russians are taking Berlin and the Marines are taking Okinawa (these did not happen simultaneously, they're just next to each other in the book).
Beevor spends a lot more time on the Pacific campaign at the end of the war than Hastings did (in my recollection), but he doesn't get into the issues between Britain and India, for example. On the other hand, he goes into a lot of detail about the Second Sino-Japanese War (and the antagonism between the Communists and the Nationalists) and its impact on WWII, which I don't think Hastings mentions at all, except maybe as an aside. Hastings had a lot more varied primary source quotes - he didn't just quote Vasily Grossman and a bunch of military leaders, but civilians as well, whereas most of Beevor's quotes come from military sorts (and Vasily Grossman). Hastings also talked a lot more about the Battle of Britain and the war in the North Atlantic, while Beevor does a lot more with the political stuff between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, as well as expanding on the friction amongst the Allied High Command. I found Hastings a more engaging and easily readable writer, though, for what that's worth. I guess because he's a journalist, so he's good at laying things out concisely. Beevor is probably slightly more comprehensive from a military standpoint, though - he talks about a few battles and things in more detail than Hastings did. Neither flinches from the horror of it all though. The sheer numbers of dead and wounded are more than I can really wrap my head around.
What I'm reading next
As always, it's a mystery.
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Holt: I was Hula-hooping. Kevin and I attend a class for fitness and for fun. I've mastered all the moves: the "Pizza Toss", the "Tornado", the "Scorpion", the "Oopsie-Doodle".
Peralta: Why are you telling me this?!
Holt: Because no one will ever believe you.
Also, is there anything better than talking about a story with someone and suddenly realizing you know how to fix it? Such a good feeling. *happy sigh*
I was trying to wait to post until I actually finished the book I'm reading - only 50 pages left! - but my lunch hour was repeatedly interrupted, so I didn't get to do it.
What I've just finished
Nothing yet! So close and yet so far!
What I'm currently reading
Still The Second World War by Antony Beevor. The Russians are taking Berlin and the Marines are taking Okinawa (these did not happen simultaneously, they're just next to each other in the book).
Beevor spends a lot more time on the Pacific campaign at the end of the war than Hastings did (in my recollection), but he doesn't get into the issues between Britain and India, for example. On the other hand, he goes into a lot of detail about the Second Sino-Japanese War (and the antagonism between the Communists and the Nationalists) and its impact on WWII, which I don't think Hastings mentions at all, except maybe as an aside. Hastings had a lot more varied primary source quotes - he didn't just quote Vasily Grossman and a bunch of military leaders, but civilians as well, whereas most of Beevor's quotes come from military sorts (and Vasily Grossman). Hastings also talked a lot more about the Battle of Britain and the war in the North Atlantic, while Beevor does a lot more with the political stuff between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, as well as expanding on the friction amongst the Allied High Command. I found Hastings a more engaging and easily readable writer, though, for what that's worth. I guess because he's a journalist, so he's good at laying things out concisely. Beevor is probably slightly more comprehensive from a military standpoint, though - he talks about a few battles and things in more detail than Hastings did. Neither flinches from the horror of it all though. The sheer numbers of dead and wounded are more than I can really wrap my head around.
What I'm reading next
As always, it's a mystery.
***
This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/647234.html.
people have commented there.