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Friday: lunch at Benjarong, errands
Jul. 12th, 2019 12:58 pmI am feeling well enough to run errands, so, yay! I mailed the dryer balls to my friend, for her middle daughter to use in college. No one will care one tiny little bit if they get lost or misplaced or whatever. I use wool ones now; these are the leftovers from a couple rounds of the blue plastic ones with the bumpy things on them. They were fine, but the wool ones are quieter.
I bought animal repellant for the plants. I bought the non stinky kind. We think the bunnies are eating the lilies that toppled over.
Speaking of toppled over, we are super sad that a fruit tree out front has just sort of ... tilted. Glad we are not farmers. I am often glad not to be reliant upon what we can produce in terms of food for ourselves around here.
I have read more books:
SPOILERS SERIOUSLY WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING HERE
First off, book one, formerly January Girl, is apparently Wild Passion: Billionaire Enemies to Lovers. OK. Whatever. So this weird thing happened when I was reading the teaser at the end of the book. Initially, it was a teaser for May Flowers (so, clearly part of the months of the year theme, with January Girl), and there was a character named May Flowers and, yeah, whatever. I was not too inspired. Maybe later. But when I went back, there was a teaser for a _different book_. And I noticed the title change on what I had read and, wow, so, you know, you are reading a book on your kindle and then you go back and it is definitely different, at least, the teaser at the end. If you read a different book than I did when you read whatever this series entry was, well, do not blame me. It may have actually been a different book.
The new teaser, for _Wild Desire: Rock Star Friends to Lovers_ looked a lot more appealing than the May Flowers thing, so I got that and read it. Opener is weirder in the book — the teaser is from slightly into the book. Ailis’ best friend Rhonda has dumped her fiance Hunter to run off to Vegas with Ailis’ boyfriend Paul. Ailis and Rhonda had been besties since college; Hunter and Paul had been friends since elementary school. Ouch! They spend the year wallowing, and decide that actually this is a Good Thing. There is also a series of unfortunate accidents happening in the background of a music competition that Hunter is participating in and Ailis is managing him for. I have to say that Mari Carr has def not gotten the memo about how it is Not Cool to make the bad guy schizophrenic. But, you know, whatever. If that was supposed to move Mari Carr into romantic suspense, I am not in favor. And I _like_ romantic suspense.
I then continued with _Wild Devotion_, which does not come with a subtitle to clue you into the tropes here, and that is probably why Carr is getting some negative feedback on this story, because
ARE YOU KIDDING ME SERIOUSLY BY NOW YOU MUST KNOW SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
Mia Curtis has cancer and 6 months to live, and while she gets a little more time, it is a few more weeks and honestly probably not really worth it.
I really sat back and thought a lot about why Mari Carr and Mia Curtis has the same initials. I do not know what to think about that.
So, whether you know it or not, there is a subgenre of romance novels involving one of the parties to the romance getting a very scary potentially terminal diagnosis. And Carr has def done these before (_Fix Me_ in the Second Chances series), but it is a little bit uncommon in Romancelandia to actually off the character in under a year and SUPER uncommon in Romancelandia to have The Big C be there at the _start_ of the relationship. Interesting! All things considered, well handled, but I feel like this thing needs a subtitle. Maybe: The Beautiful Tragedy of a Love That Lasts a Lifetime. Not catchy? Yeah, I am not good at this.
Anyway. The teaser at the end is for Wild at Heart: Friends to Lovers Romantic Comedy, and when you have that many men around a single woman in a Mari Carr novel, it usually does not wind up being A or B, but rather both (altho, honestly, I would not put it past Carr to up the ante here as well). Not sure if I am going to read it just yet, or watch a movie, or do something useful with my time.
I bought animal repellant for the plants. I bought the non stinky kind. We think the bunnies are eating the lilies that toppled over.
Speaking of toppled over, we are super sad that a fruit tree out front has just sort of ... tilted. Glad we are not farmers. I am often glad not to be reliant upon what we can produce in terms of food for ourselves around here.
I have read more books:
SPOILERS SERIOUSLY WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING HERE
First off, book one, formerly January Girl, is apparently Wild Passion: Billionaire Enemies to Lovers. OK. Whatever. So this weird thing happened when I was reading the teaser at the end of the book. Initially, it was a teaser for May Flowers (so, clearly part of the months of the year theme, with January Girl), and there was a character named May Flowers and, yeah, whatever. I was not too inspired. Maybe later. But when I went back, there was a teaser for a _different book_. And I noticed the title change on what I had read and, wow, so, you know, you are reading a book on your kindle and then you go back and it is definitely different, at least, the teaser at the end. If you read a different book than I did when you read whatever this series entry was, well, do not blame me. It may have actually been a different book.
The new teaser, for _Wild Desire: Rock Star Friends to Lovers_ looked a lot more appealing than the May Flowers thing, so I got that and read it. Opener is weirder in the book — the teaser is from slightly into the book. Ailis’ best friend Rhonda has dumped her fiance Hunter to run off to Vegas with Ailis’ boyfriend Paul. Ailis and Rhonda had been besties since college; Hunter and Paul had been friends since elementary school. Ouch! They spend the year wallowing, and decide that actually this is a Good Thing. There is also a series of unfortunate accidents happening in the background of a music competition that Hunter is participating in and Ailis is managing him for. I have to say that Mari Carr has def not gotten the memo about how it is Not Cool to make the bad guy schizophrenic. But, you know, whatever. If that was supposed to move Mari Carr into romantic suspense, I am not in favor. And I _like_ romantic suspense.
I then continued with _Wild Devotion_, which does not come with a subtitle to clue you into the tropes here, and that is probably why Carr is getting some negative feedback on this story, because
ARE YOU KIDDING ME SERIOUSLY BY NOW YOU MUST KNOW SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
Mia Curtis has cancer and 6 months to live, and while she gets a little more time, it is a few more weeks and honestly probably not really worth it.
I really sat back and thought a lot about why Mari Carr and Mia Curtis has the same initials. I do not know what to think about that.
So, whether you know it or not, there is a subgenre of romance novels involving one of the parties to the romance getting a very scary potentially terminal diagnosis. And Carr has def done these before (_Fix Me_ in the Second Chances series), but it is a little bit uncommon in Romancelandia to actually off the character in under a year and SUPER uncommon in Romancelandia to have The Big C be there at the _start_ of the relationship. Interesting! All things considered, well handled, but I feel like this thing needs a subtitle. Maybe: The Beautiful Tragedy of a Love That Lasts a Lifetime. Not catchy? Yeah, I am not good at this.
Anyway. The teaser at the end is for Wild at Heart: Friends to Lovers Romantic Comedy, and when you have that many men around a single woman in a Mari Carr novel, it usually does not wind up being A or B, but rather both (altho, honestly, I would not put it past Carr to up the ante here as well). Not sure if I am going to read it just yet, or watch a movie, or do something useful with my time.