Oh, I loved watching him in whatever he was in. RIP.
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Oh, I loved watching him in whatever he was in. RIP.
Got mine yesterday.
My book club picked it last year and I bought it but then, when I knew I would miss that meeting, I never read it. So it’s been sitting on my shelf for a year. I’m glad I finally picked it up.
The problem with humor books is that as they go along the author has to get broader and broader and I generally lose patience with the plots. Interesting that Sandwich is getting a sequel, I didn’t think it needed one. The one I think you would really enjoy is The Narrow Land.
Thx!
Awwww.
I combined my July/August reading into one blog post. I read a lot of books, mostly mysteries, but highlights included The Wedding People by Alison Espach The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey Conclave by Robert Harris The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams Details attached. 💙📚
Odd. It’s in English. I wonder if you can change the language to English.
Big solar storm Monday so look for Northern Lights.
I just realized that Illinois has two (2!!) state fairs within driving distance of St. Louis and I could have gone to the second one (which ends tomorrow). Next year ….
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Of course they did.
Just don’t take up with an obese Scottish lord.
I figured it out 😉 My sister never proofs her texts and I have lots of practice figuring words out.
Different. But I’ve lived through so many people shipping them in the first book only to be disappointed. The way she writes you could ship L and P but still realize you could be wrong. (Of course the fact that there is only 1 1/4 books left makes it different. It reassures your hope.)
I love Danny. But there’s a line between a friend WANTING something to happen and it actually happening. She writes very realistic situations. I’ve had it happen where we friends all knew 2 people were perfect for each other but it took 2 years for the guy to realize it (and maybe he never would.)
Maybe. But I also think it’s how you look at the writing from a genre perspective. Is she primarily writing a romance (I say no, but many would disagree) or is she primarily concerned with writing a psychological study of a complicated man. The situational leadup does make him open to the moment.
There is a reality where all the preliminaries with her happen but he’s still not interested. DD showed that with Christian. To have it be inevitable that all the preliminaries inevitably lead to love is a romance novel trope and I think DD is writing a more complicated story.
Yes, and maybe that lays the groundwork but it isn’t until he is holding her and looking at her that it hits him and he’s interested. i don’t think he’s just admitting it at that moment, he’s REALIZING it, which is different.
Yes, possibly. But when AG first encounters him the P meeting hasn’t occurred yet. At that point he definitely isn’t interested. At all. He would have been happy if DC had lived and married her.
I would watch.
I definitely think he wasn’t interested, that’s why the anvil hit so hard when he realized she was an adult woman and reacted sexually to her.
Aaaagh!
I noticed that our libraries are doing that too. Going to be sure to check out something at the end of the year so I get a total.
Yum!
Well, I’ve never wanted to go more than once …. Lemon shakeups? What are those? The homemade lemonade with whole lemons? They sound refreshing.
Went out to the countryside (here known as the East Side of the River) to see if I could still get peaches (I could). I’ll slice them up and freeze for winter. I don’t really like pumpkin spice anything (except pie) but I know fall is coming when the apple cider donuts appear. Yes, I bought some.
Cool blue. 💙
I’ve never been to a State Fair. For one thing, the Missouri State Fair is in Sedalia which is a 3 hour drive away so not good for a day trip. I could go to Illinois which is less than 2 hours away. But in either case, they are always in August when I am away in cooler climes.
Every once in a while we get lucky.
And that’s not even a Butterfly Bush!
It does sound relaxing.
I give you guys props for sticking with this.
Since the beginning I’ve been calling this Mediocre Straight White Man Affirmative Action.
“Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, along with the District of Columbia.”
The nuclear block is the best thing about this place. Being able to hide replies to your posts from everyone and decide what the conversation in your own thread will be is a close second.
I don’t game but if I did, this would be right up my alley.
Katrina was 20 years ago. Might be time to watch Treme again.
Da duh. Da duh. Leonard Slatkin’s cellist mother, scaring people since 1975, (Says John Williams. Slatkin says she was scaring people long before that.)
I like how three of the test states are red states and one is a swing state. Hope it bites them in the ass.
Good review by a first time reader. #dunnettcontent
It really is a shame you didn’t read it before going to Bruges.
Yes! Love that moment!
Bears like ice cream. No mystery.
I should say that the first 2 times I read the series I had much more sympathy for him. Then someone pointed out how he doesn’t really want to allow her agency, he wants her “safely” on the pedestal he created where she makes no decisions, and I’ve never been able to unsee it.
I take away points for not heeding what P is telling him. At this point in the story he’s not too terribly bad but it’s the start of him not recognizing P’s own agency.
£3 million seems like a deal. If you can afford the upkeep.
Could be that someone just pulled a form used before and rather than take the time to negotiate out unnecessary provisions they just left them in. It happens. Often. Especially when things are moving fast. Wonder what the agreement looked like when the govt. acquired AIG shares.
Interesting. Also possible the provisions are there so that if the stockholder DOES later acquire more shares there is no need for a whole new agreement.
This may be the first time in my life that I’ve seen the point of having grand juries.
Oh Rose, you’re so stuck up.
This time through pay attention to how AG gradually becomes more and more controlling with P. Yes L treated him horribly but he wouldn’t have been the best match for P even if L hadn’t existed. He wanted her “safely” on a pedestal and she thrives on freedom.
#dunnettcontent I don’t watch a lot of book tube but since I’m always looking for good historical fiction this channel came onto my radar. Looks like we have another new Dorothy Dunnett fan.
This is not good. It says the Fort de Chartres historic site would be a total loss once the levee breaches.
CS Harris is one of my favorite mystery writers. (I also really liked Lessons in Chemistry - especially the parts written from the POV of the dog.)
There is also Betty’s which specializes in graphic novels. It’s on Summit around the corner from Cyrano’s restaurant. The other is Webster Groves Bookshop on Gore in Old Webster. I’ve actually never been in that one, I usually go to Novel neighbor. (I live in Shrewsbury.).
We do like our libraries. ❤️ Plus there’s a big used book store in Maplewood (The Book House) and three independent bookstores down the road from you in Webster Groves.
Woot! Did you know that as a resident of St. Louis County you can also get a City library card too?
Ooh, me too!
The one I would pick is the calm one over to the side that can’t decide if they want to join in or go to sleep. Then slowly walks over.
Looking forward to this.
BREAKING: Judge Lamberth orders Kari Lake to sit for a deposition about whether she is operating Voice of America up to legal minimum standards. He says this is "one final opportunity" before a contempt trial.
The old joke is that any good prosecutor could get a jury to indict a ham sandwich. Do you know how badly you have to be overcharging something for a grand jury to reject charges three times in a row? What an embarrassment.
At least Ronnie had Nancy. 😂
I was a corporate paralegal in the 80’s before I went to lawschool. I learned how to read state corporate statutes really well. I also spent a lot of time on the phone with Secretary of State offices because the lawyers hated to seem like they didn’t know an answer and made me call. Good training.
We loved it. Everyone was surprised by how much we loved the class, since we went in with great trepidation. Tax!! It helped that we had a professor with a VERY dry sense of humor. It was one semester and we didn’t have crim law as a 1L.
Good 🧵 . I should say that I’ve always appreciated that my law school required 1Ls to take a statutory class. Ours was baby tax (individual income tax). Reading statutes is a very practical skill, especially for those of us with no interest in litigation.
We might say he’s a softy.
A lot of anniversaries this year, but this is one of my favorites.
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Re-reading What’s Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies.
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I read these books back in the 90’s and really enjoyed them. I think I found them through watching an adaptation on Masterpiece Theater. Gift. wapo.st/3HNPgDJ
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Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
Yes that was missing. But I liked her interactions with the side characters that were clearly set up to be recurring.
Yeah, it doesn’t appeal to me either. But her magic act series didn’t appeal to me either but I ended up liking it.
Alis Hawkins’ Teifi Valley coroner series (set in Wales). Historical. Jane Harper’s Aaron Falk series (set in Australia. Contemporary.
So I have the new Elly Griffiths mystery and I started it but it seems to be going in a time travel (?) direction which doesn't interest me at all. Is it worth continuing?
Graduate programs are important for many reasons. That being said, I always tell HS students who want to major in poli sci (my major) to pick an undergraduate school with no graduate program in that area. They’ll be taught by real professors and not graduate students (who don’t know how to teach).
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I hate grocery shopping too. Does he want go do mine?
Coming back from 3 weeks of vacation to a high mold count - itchy eyes, ugh
TIP: Take the card from the front desk of your hotel to show the cab drivers. No matter how hard I try they can never understand me.
Interesting color. I love apricot jam.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
If you had told me 30 years ago that Michael Luttig and Bill Kristol would have a clearer understanding about what's going on than a lot of Democratic leaders, I'd have wondered whether you tried the brown acid.
For some reason, the admistration recently imposed 50% tariffs on imported motorcycles with engines 250-500cc or 800-970cc, but not on those in 500-800cc or over 970cc. www.jalopnik.com/1945903/stee...
This is very good. If you know anyone starting lawschool this fall you might want to send it to them.
I love dragonflies. They are pretty and eat other bugs I don’t like.
I should have said memoir, not biography.
I’ll never think of Richard Rogers as anything but a horn dog in his personal life after reading his daughter, Mary Rogers, biography. But I’m a person who can easily separate art (his was great) from personal life (ugh).