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walkitoutI walked with M.
R. continues to work on repairing the dishwasher. There was a broken line, which he fixed, but then something sloshed and triggered a stop so he had to dry it out. He went back to the hardware store for another part. Fingers crossed.
I did zoom with I. Fun!
Family zoom happened. Nothing too painful there.
A. had her portal playdate with B., after he returned from drag queen brunch. Somewhat envious!
I finished reading _Stark’s Crusade_, the third in the Stark’s War trilogy by John Hemry, aka Jack Campbell.
It was a fun read, and extremely thought provoking. (Initial publication is 2000 or earlier, so never mind what I said about W administrations — clearly not relevant!) But reading it against the backdrop of the invasion(s) of Ukraine and mass demonstrations in various places in recent years is also fruitful. I don’t know that I would recommend it, but it absolutely was in no way a waste of time, and it’s quite possible I will someday reread it.
ETA:
I also finished reading Mia Sosa’s _Unbuttoning the CEO_. I read at least one other Mia Sosa novel back in 2017, recommended by K. I appear to own 3 books, the 3rd one being the sequel to the one I read in 2017. Reading the description of that sequel does not sound super familiar and I can’t find a review on my blog, so that may well be next.
In any event, there are some shared themes — men who aren’t super forthcoming with their real identity when they have a chance to escape their fame and its complications, for example, and women who are coming out of bad relationships, as another example. I don’t know exactly what I would have thought about Media Best had I read this when I bought it 2017, but it’s kinda funny in a Zoom world now.
For whatever reason, this didn’t work for me as well as I remember _Acting on Impulse_ working for me back in 2017. I’ll give _Pretending He’s Mine_ a try, and see what I think of that, in the spirit of Reading the Books I’ve Already Bought. I think the biggest problem I had with _Unbuttoning the CEO_ is that I felt like the “deception” was awfully contrived. OTOH, if you go to a big, fancy event, and your computer nerd boyfriend who you met when he was doing community service at the non-profit you run turns out to be a fancy CEO receiving a fancy award and you had no idea, well, yeah, that’s probably not _that_ contrived, actually. But it’s not something I’d dump someone over, for sure. I read King Thrushbeard as a child, after all.
R. continues to work on repairing the dishwasher. There was a broken line, which he fixed, but then something sloshed and triggered a stop so he had to dry it out. He went back to the hardware store for another part. Fingers crossed.
I did zoom with I. Fun!
Family zoom happened. Nothing too painful there.
A. had her portal playdate with B., after he returned from drag queen brunch. Somewhat envious!
I finished reading _Stark’s Crusade_, the third in the Stark’s War trilogy by John Hemry, aka Jack Campbell.
It was a fun read, and extremely thought provoking. (Initial publication is 2000 or earlier, so never mind what I said about W administrations — clearly not relevant!) But reading it against the backdrop of the invasion(s) of Ukraine and mass demonstrations in various places in recent years is also fruitful. I don’t know that I would recommend it, but it absolutely was in no way a waste of time, and it’s quite possible I will someday reread it.
ETA:
I also finished reading Mia Sosa’s _Unbuttoning the CEO_. I read at least one other Mia Sosa novel back in 2017, recommended by K. I appear to own 3 books, the 3rd one being the sequel to the one I read in 2017. Reading the description of that sequel does not sound super familiar and I can’t find a review on my blog, so that may well be next.
In any event, there are some shared themes — men who aren’t super forthcoming with their real identity when they have a chance to escape their fame and its complications, for example, and women who are coming out of bad relationships, as another example. I don’t know exactly what I would have thought about Media Best had I read this when I bought it 2017, but it’s kinda funny in a Zoom world now.
For whatever reason, this didn’t work for me as well as I remember _Acting on Impulse_ working for me back in 2017. I’ll give _Pretending He’s Mine_ a try, and see what I think of that, in the spirit of Reading the Books I’ve Already Bought. I think the biggest problem I had with _Unbuttoning the CEO_ is that I felt like the “deception” was awfully contrived. OTOH, if you go to a big, fancy event, and your computer nerd boyfriend who you met when he was doing community service at the non-profit you run turns out to be a fancy CEO receiving a fancy award and you had no idea, well, yeah, that’s probably not _that_ contrived, actually. But it’s not something I’d dump someone over, for sure. I read King Thrushbeard as a child, after all.