Comments | musesfool: the way you changed my life

musesfool

the way you changed my life

Feb 12, 2014 12:00

We're battening down the hatches for another snowstorm tonight, and I was talking to a co-worker who complained that the NYC public schools have been really reluctant to close this year for weather, and I was like, man, when I was a kid, they NEVER closed. Like, okay, the blizzard of '77, yeah, and Hurricane Gloria in '85, but other than that, I ( Read more... )

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femmenerd February 12 2014, 18:02:12 UTC

Sort of on topic: I am excited to watch the second series of The Bletchley Circle, which I wasn't even aware had happened until my recent return to LJ.

History: it's neat.

musesfool February 12 2014, 18:20:43 UTC

Yeah, I was waiting for season 2 to be complete before watching it, but it is on my to-do list. Awesome ladies! Solving murders! <3

nekare February 12 2014, 18:14:30 UTC

Seeing that you're in a WWII kick, may I recommend Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis? It's got amazing ladies, a bit about bletchley park, time travel and mindfuckery. So cool :)

musesfool February 12 2014, 18:21:03 UTC

I'll add them to the list for when I return to fiction!

redbrunja February 13 2014, 04:34:52 UTC

HOT DAMN, CONNIE WILLIS WROTE SCI-FI ABOUT WWII? I am putting those on hold IMMEDIATELY.

nekare February 13 2014, 05:45:33 UTC

She did and it was soooo good! I kept reading sneakily at work :)

digitalwave February 12 2014, 19:05:23 UTC

These kids today don't know what it was like... ;)

musesfool February 13 2014, 01:47:58 UTC

They really don't!

*shakes fist, since i don't (yet) have a cane*

raincitygirl February 13 2014, 01:15:42 UTC

I haven't read Inferno, but I have read All Hell Let Loose, another Max Hastings book, also about WWII (well, I guess if people keep buying them, he'll keep writing them...), and it was really good. Like you, I enjoyed the use of primary sources that weren't already well known.

musesfool February 13 2014, 01:48:28 UTC

That's the same book - that's the title in the UK. I don't know why they changed it for the US release.

raincitygirl February 13 2014, 02:29:09 UTC

Interesting. My uncle sent it to me from England, and I hadn't realized the title was different here in North America (usually if they change a title for the US, they change it for Canada too). Thanks for letting me know. Otherwise I might have ended up buying it and having the same book twice over.

musesfool February 13 2014, 02:37:28 UTC

No problem. I checked into it because i didn't want to do that, either.

viridian5 February 13 2014, 04:23:56 UTC

I lived in northeast Pennsylvania for the winter of 1996, where the snow was bad they closed the highways, something they only do for the snowpocalypse since snow is status quo for winters there. Finally, after days stuck in the house, my mom and I sprayed our shovels with Pam to give them more of a non-stick surface and shoveled six feet of snow out of the driveway.

But I'm still bitching about this winter's snow in NYC since I didn't have to try to parallel park in PA, the roads are tended better, and the people there knew how to deal with and drive in snow.

musesfool February 17 2014, 01:42:04 UTC

Yeah, it's fine when we get two big storms a year months apart, but this every week thing is really not on.

viridian5 February 17 2014, 01:57:10 UTC

I'm so tired of having to dig out my car 1-3 times a week. Also, so many former parking spots in my area are now usable only by highriding SUVs.

musesfool February 17 2014, 02:04:38 UTC

Since I don't have a car, my biggest issue is the gross slushy corners with puddles that are as deep as my boots! Bah.

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