Last night Nancy mentioned that she's been here in California with me for ten years now. Actually, we moved her here in early September, but still.... Ten years. That's the longest I've lasted with anyone and it's been fairly smooth sailing. It's kind of funny because we were both "thank you for putting up with me" even though we do really well ( Read more... )

What are you currently reading?A biography of Oliver Cromwell, which I'm moving through pretty slowly since it's kind of my back up book. I tend to read it just before bed because it is interesting but not so much so that I'll stay up all night to finish it. I just started a book about the 1954 baseball season and how the first generation of Black ( Read more... )

Reading: I plowed through all four of the Julian Kestral mysteries by Kate Ross--starting with Cut to the Quick and liked them for the most part. Someone described them as Peter Wimsey meets Georgette Heyer, which is good enough. Ross is no Dorothy Sayers when it comes to writing (but really, who is?) and she's not as concerned with manners as ( Read more... )

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Reading: I'm rereading Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy Sayers. It's not my favorite (that would be Gaudy Night) but I still love it.

Writing: I did a couple of short fics for
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Not so much with the reading, in that I haven't read much of anything at all this week. I'm down to the wire on my Reversebang and so no reading. Tumblr, yes. Baseball, yes. Books? Not so much ( Read more... )

The only new stuff I've read recently was a trilogy of modern regency romances by Carolyn Linden that were pretty meh. The framing device was interesting enough that I read all three books to find out what was up, so they had that going for them. I liked her heroines, they were fairly modern but not jarringly so. The dudes weren't nearly as ( Read more... )

So I'm reading, or trying to read, some stuff ( Read more... )

But I haven't been to bed yet, so it's still Wednesday night ( Read more... )