when the rain washes you clean you'll know
I went home and slept a lot yesterday and ate some bland food, watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine and slept some more, and now I feel at least 90% better, which is good, because I have L's birthday dinner tonight.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Coral Palms Part 1
GREG AND LARRY. This episode was both hilarious and horrifying in terms of the terrible lives Jake and Holt have been set up with, replete with frosted tips, hot tub burritos, Holt rapping as DJ B-Day, and Jake made to say that "Failure to Launch" is his favorite movie. I laughed A LOT. Andre Braugher is a GIFT, you guys. He is not appreciated nearly enough. Plus Maya Rudolph and Rhea Perlman! I'm so glad this show is back!
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Wednesday reading meme:
What I've just finished
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, which I loved! I would have given it five stars had it not ended on a cliffhanger. Luckily, the sequel comes out next week, so I don't have a months-long wait in front of me. Anyway, magical heists are awesome and Inej is the best and I ship her and Kaz really hard. When she tells him she'll have him without armor or not at all, I was like, YES GOOD. except no, because I want them to be together! It at least provides prime fodder for stoic pining and fraught touching, which are two of my very favorite things, plus Kaz tearing the world apart to rescue her after the kidnapping, though hopefully she'll take the initiative on her own rescue. So she and Nina can go out for waffles after! How are there not hundreds of terrible Kaz/Inej stories on AO3 titled 'Noli me tangere' for me to read?
Other things I really liked about this book: no love triangles - the pairings are made pretty clear from the outset so there's no "who will they choose?" nonsense; believable world-building; friendship between the two girls on the crew; unremarked upon homosexuality; and as I mentioned behind the cut, so much delicious pining. I still feel like they all have to be in their 20s for any of this to make sense, but whatever, that's easy enough to handwave.
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, which is set in the same world as above, though slightly earlier in the timeline I guess? Anyway, I didn't enjoy this nearly as much - it's a much more typical YA with a first person special girl narrator who I didn't really connect with. She feels kind of generic to me.
What I'm reading now
Still, I'm reading the second book in the trilogy, Siege and Storm, though I was hoping for a Mal POV, or at least some relief from the unrelenting Alina POV.
What I'm reading next
Probably the third in the Grisha trilogy, just to see how the story ends, but also the sequel to Six of Crows, which comes out next week. ♥INEJ♥
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Coral Palms Part 1
GREG AND LARRY. This episode was both hilarious and horrifying in terms of the terrible lives Jake and Holt have been set up with, replete with frosted tips, hot tub burritos, Holt rapping as DJ B-Day, and Jake made to say that "Failure to Launch" is his favorite movie. I laughed A LOT. Andre Braugher is a GIFT, you guys. He is not appreciated nearly enough. Plus Maya Rudolph and Rhea Perlman! I'm so glad this show is back!
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Wednesday reading meme:
What I've just finished
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, which I loved! I would have given it five stars had it not ended on a cliffhanger. Luckily, the sequel comes out next week, so I don't have a months-long wait in front of me. Anyway, magical heists are awesome and Inej is the best and I ship her and Kaz really hard. When she tells him she'll have him without armor or not at all, I was like, YES GOOD. except no, because I want them to be together! It at least provides prime fodder for stoic pining and fraught touching, which are two of my very favorite things, plus Kaz tearing the world apart to rescue her after the kidnapping, though hopefully she'll take the initiative on her own rescue. So she and Nina can go out for waffles after! How are there not hundreds of terrible Kaz/Inej stories on AO3 titled 'Noli me tangere' for me to read?
Other things I really liked about this book: no love triangles - the pairings are made pretty clear from the outset so there's no "who will they choose?" nonsense; believable world-building; friendship between the two girls on the crew; unremarked upon homosexuality; and as I mentioned behind the cut, so much delicious pining. I still feel like they all have to be in their 20s for any of this to make sense, but whatever, that's easy enough to handwave.
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, which is set in the same world as above, though slightly earlier in the timeline I guess? Anyway, I didn't enjoy this nearly as much - it's a much more typical YA with a first person special girl narrator who I didn't really connect with. She feels kind of generic to me.
What I'm reading now
Still, I'm reading the second book in the trilogy, Siege and Storm, though I was hoping for a Mal POV, or at least some relief from the unrelenting Alina POV.
What I'm reading next
Probably the third in the Grisha trilogy, just to see how the story ends, but also the sequel to Six of Crows, which comes out next week. ♥INEJ♥
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people have commented there.