Is it just me or in some instances are you just describing the book and don’t really say explicitly whether you liked it or not? Lol
I was disappointed you didn’t care for some of these as I have them in my TBR pile. 🫤
I just finished The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon and it was really good! Based loosely on a real midwife, Martha Ballard, around a controversial crime in early America. Highly recommend! I love early medicine stories, women as herbalists and midwives, etc.
In general, I like something OK if I don't explicitly say I hated it or loved it. But everyone's taste is different! I'm not doing reader advisory in these posts as much keeping track of my own consumption. If something looks good to you, check it out!
It's been another depressing spring in the Mid-Atlantic area (Kim types while inside on another rainy Saturday). I am slowly breaking out of a months-long reading slump. I read The House on the Cerulean Sea which was sweet, and Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green which was light and quick, even given the subject matter. Wishing you continued speedy healing!
Further to my previous comment on what I am reading. On to TV watching. I am watching British series at the moment, specifically older series. I am at Season 7 of a series that ran for 12 seasons! It is called "New Tricks" and is about 3 older, retired police detectives who come out of retirement with a hot shot woman detective to investigate Cold cases and hopefully solve them. The wrangling necessary to keep the 3 "oldsters" in line by their "gov'ner (the woman) is hilarious but there are often serious moments involving the private lives and problems of the 4 that make it more than just a police procedural comedy. This program was often the most highly watched by the public at the time through most of it's seasons and is well worth watching.
I am also watching 2 other British procedurals called Midsomer Murders and Wycliffe. They are older series. At the moment, that is what best serves what is definately a short attention span and gets me away from what is happening on the world stage.
I also am listening to music that has a strong Voice appeal. Groups and people like ilDivo (OH MY!), Sarah Brightman, Loreena McKennitt, and Andrea Bocelli, Amica and other very light opera groups as well as music from the 1960's to and part of the 1980's. Rolling Stones and Dire Straits, Anyone? My taste is highly eclectic!
I know that what I watch and listen to is not everyone's cup up tea, but it is my choice and at my age, my choices rule! !
Spent, the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel. Omg the gift of this woman's mind. She writes the dialogue and draws the people who say it? Crazy-smart lady. And ...
Class Clown, the Dave Barry memoir. A lifetime of humor from a master of satire. I can even forgive him for being from Florida.
There, all done, continued speedy recovery to you.
I so admire your fighting spirit, you poor thing, extremities in casts and feeling you have to wait out domestic fascism by immersing yourself in all these streamed mass taste flavors of the month.
May I suggest a few niche-y, artisanal guilty pleasures I've been introduced to? You've never heard of these actors, I guarantee you. None of them has been profiled in New York magazine.
Shtisel, on Prime: ultra-Orthodox young people in Jerusalem try to forge a productive life and still stay faithful to the suffocating religious tradition they're born into. Creator recently profiled in NYT Sunday magazine. I identify with the frustrations because I was raised Southern Baptist.
Rev, on Britbox: deaf guy from 4 Weddings & A Funeral is an earnest but flawed vicar, Olivia Colman is his wife before she became a big star. The Brits & Apple+ have the best content out there, if you ask me.
I, Jack Wright on Britbox: UK Succession except the wealthy patriarch dies violently. Hey, what can I say, I'm waiting out the fascism same as you are. No one is redeemable, everyone's a suspect.
Reformed, on Netflix: French lady rabbi whose episodes address all the crises she's confronted with: marriage, divorce, a bris, etc and of course she has to have the requisite problematic father (as is present in Shtisel).
Casting & acting in all of these stories is perfect. Bon appetit!
Ps: I'm watching MSNBC coverage of the troubles in Boulder today. You're NOT going to believe this, but anchor Chris Jansing, whose NYC home was just sold, according to a real estate newsletter I receive, is SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD. Someone needs to corral this woman, and demand to know her secret! I had her pegged for 40's.
I enjoyed this most current post as I have enjoyed all that you have shared from the beginning.
When I was in University, I wanted rather desperately to be a Librarian but was talked out of it by people I trusted and I took a degree in Political Science. I was told that there were no jobs to be had in the Librarian Science field and with a Poli-Sci degree, I could be a teacher, at least. Well, Life and finances got in the way and I left University halfway through my Master's Degree. I got all the course work done but the dissertation was not done. Ah Well, it is what it is and that was a long time ago.
I left, and spent the next 30 years in the Accounting field. Turned out that I was good with numbers. Who Knew??? lol.
Anyways, This spring I have been reading Fantasy with an Older Woman (and or) Humorous bent. At the moment, that is all my rather short attention span will allow. You read much more serious stuff than me. But, I make no apologies for my more shallow choices.
1. Just finished book #1 of a new Helen Harper series called Waifs and Strays. I was snorting and giggling through it and #2 comes out in mid June. I can hardly wait.
2. I have finished the first in a new series by A.D. Starrling: Diary of a Reluctant Werewolf - It All Started With A Bite. Totally fun and I am looking forward to another book in the series. I hope!
3. I am re-reading the Discworld series by Sir Terry Pratchett and finished #1: The Color of Magic and am almost through #2: The Light Fantastic. Anyone for "in-sewer-ants??? If you have read #1 you will know what I am talking about. Sir Terry is in my total comfort reading zone. I cried when I heard that he had Alzheimer's. Such a waste of a fabulous mind. He gone now but I am sure he is somewhere, writing his wonderful stories.
I could go on and on but this missive will be long as it is. Will update later on TV choices.
Have you read Megan Bannen's books (Undertaking of Hart and Mercy and Undermining of Twyla and Frank)? They're cozy in that T. Kingfisher way.
I love Murderbot, but once the series is over, I am going to take an afternoon and rewatch all 10 episodes in a row.
Andor is a show where you trudge along through episodes that you know will pay off but are kind of boring, and then they pay off and it's like WOW.
Every time I start getting a little bored with Hacks, BAM, everything changes and I'm invested again.
I want to see One of Them Days - heard it was good even before your thumbs up. I might also watch Mickey 17. Right now K and I are watching Ludwig (or as K calls it, that show with the guy from Peep Show), Poker Face, and Murderbot.
Is it just me or in some instances are you just describing the book and don’t really say explicitly whether you liked it or not? Lol
I was disappointed you didn’t care for some of these as I have them in my TBR pile. 🫤
I just finished The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon and it was really good! Based loosely on a real midwife, Martha Ballard, around a controversial crime in early America. Highly recommend! I love early medicine stories, women as herbalists and midwives, etc.
In general, I like something OK if I don't explicitly say I hated it or loved it. But everyone's taste is different! I'm not doing reader advisory in these posts as much keeping track of my own consumption. If something looks good to you, check it out!
It's been another depressing spring in the Mid-Atlantic area (Kim types while inside on another rainy Saturday). I am slowly breaking out of a months-long reading slump. I read The House on the Cerulean Sea which was sweet, and Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green which was light and quick, even given the subject matter. Wishing you continued speedy healing!
Further to my previous comment on what I am reading. On to TV watching. I am watching British series at the moment, specifically older series. I am at Season 7 of a series that ran for 12 seasons! It is called "New Tricks" and is about 3 older, retired police detectives who come out of retirement with a hot shot woman detective to investigate Cold cases and hopefully solve them. The wrangling necessary to keep the 3 "oldsters" in line by their "gov'ner (the woman) is hilarious but there are often serious moments involving the private lives and problems of the 4 that make it more than just a police procedural comedy. This program was often the most highly watched by the public at the time through most of it's seasons and is well worth watching.
I am also watching 2 other British procedurals called Midsomer Murders and Wycliffe. They are older series. At the moment, that is what best serves what is definately a short attention span and gets me away from what is happening on the world stage.
I also am listening to music that has a strong Voice appeal. Groups and people like ilDivo (OH MY!), Sarah Brightman, Loreena McKennitt, and Andrea Bocelli, Amica and other very light opera groups as well as music from the 1960's to and part of the 1980's. Rolling Stones and Dire Straits, Anyone? My taste is highly eclectic!
I know that what I watch and listen to is not everyone's cup up tea, but it is my choice and at my age, my choices rule! !
Oh, and the books -- I forgot the books.
Spent, the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel. Omg the gift of this woman's mind. She writes the dialogue and draws the people who say it? Crazy-smart lady. And ...
Class Clown, the Dave Barry memoir. A lifetime of humor from a master of satire. I can even forgive him for being from Florida.
There, all done, continued speedy recovery to you.
Audio book version of the Murderbot series is amazing!!!
I so admire your fighting spirit, you poor thing, extremities in casts and feeling you have to wait out domestic fascism by immersing yourself in all these streamed mass taste flavors of the month.
May I suggest a few niche-y, artisanal guilty pleasures I've been introduced to? You've never heard of these actors, I guarantee you. None of them has been profiled in New York magazine.
Shtisel, on Prime: ultra-Orthodox young people in Jerusalem try to forge a productive life and still stay faithful to the suffocating religious tradition they're born into. Creator recently profiled in NYT Sunday magazine. I identify with the frustrations because I was raised Southern Baptist.
Rev, on Britbox: deaf guy from 4 Weddings & A Funeral is an earnest but flawed vicar, Olivia Colman is his wife before she became a big star. The Brits & Apple+ have the best content out there, if you ask me.
I, Jack Wright on Britbox: UK Succession except the wealthy patriarch dies violently. Hey, what can I say, I'm waiting out the fascism same as you are. No one is redeemable, everyone's a suspect.
Reformed, on Netflix: French lady rabbi whose episodes address all the crises she's confronted with: marriage, divorce, a bris, etc and of course she has to have the requisite problematic father (as is present in Shtisel).
Casting & acting in all of these stories is perfect. Bon appetit!
Ps: I'm watching MSNBC coverage of the troubles in Boulder today. You're NOT going to believe this, but anchor Chris Jansing, whose NYC home was just sold, according to a real estate newsletter I receive, is SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD. Someone needs to corral this woman, and demand to know her secret! I had her pegged for 40's.
Hello, Hello, Hello:
I enjoyed this most current post as I have enjoyed all that you have shared from the beginning.
When I was in University, I wanted rather desperately to be a Librarian but was talked out of it by people I trusted and I took a degree in Political Science. I was told that there were no jobs to be had in the Librarian Science field and with a Poli-Sci degree, I could be a teacher, at least. Well, Life and finances got in the way and I left University halfway through my Master's Degree. I got all the course work done but the dissertation was not done. Ah Well, it is what it is and that was a long time ago.
I left, and spent the next 30 years in the Accounting field. Turned out that I was good with numbers. Who Knew??? lol.
Anyways, This spring I have been reading Fantasy with an Older Woman (and or) Humorous bent. At the moment, that is all my rather short attention span will allow. You read much more serious stuff than me. But, I make no apologies for my more shallow choices.
1. Just finished book #1 of a new Helen Harper series called Waifs and Strays. I was snorting and giggling through it and #2 comes out in mid June. I can hardly wait.
2. I have finished the first in a new series by A.D. Starrling: Diary of a Reluctant Werewolf - It All Started With A Bite. Totally fun and I am looking forward to another book in the series. I hope!
3. I am re-reading the Discworld series by Sir Terry Pratchett and finished #1: The Color of Magic and am almost through #2: The Light Fantastic. Anyone for "in-sewer-ants??? If you have read #1 you will know what I am talking about. Sir Terry is in my total comfort reading zone. I cried when I heard that he had Alzheimer's. Such a waste of a fabulous mind. He gone now but I am sure he is somewhere, writing his wonderful stories.
I could go on and on but this missive will be long as it is. Will update later on TV choices.
I respond to all posts about media content. :)
Have you read Megan Bannen's books (Undertaking of Hart and Mercy and Undermining of Twyla and Frank)? They're cozy in that T. Kingfisher way.
I love Murderbot, but once the series is over, I am going to take an afternoon and rewatch all 10 episodes in a row.
Andor is a show where you trudge along through episodes that you know will pay off but are kind of boring, and then they pay off and it's like WOW.
Every time I start getting a little bored with Hacks, BAM, everything changes and I'm invested again.
I want to see One of Them Days - heard it was good even before your thumbs up. I might also watch Mickey 17. Right now K and I are watching Ludwig (or as K calls it, that show with the guy from Peep Show), Poker Face, and Murderbot.
Give ‘Hacks’ another chance it gets better!
I am not the deleted comment but I watched the first episode of hacks and felt nothing. I'll give it a few more though. Thanks!