First, I'd like to ask a question that's really been bothering me.
Do we really have a bobwhite somewhere in the neighborhood or it just some idiot practicing his bobwhite call?
Now that I've gotten that out into the open, I feel a little bit better and a little bit more confused.
While I'm waiting on my Morningstar Farms chik'n tenders to fry their little selves (yes, I'm a vegetarian. Did I mention I also strive to find the most amazing recipes I can and post them?) I figured I'd work in another post. Let's talk about...
BOOKS!!
Just finished Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullington.
Verdict?
Not a fan.
In French Cinema, a class I took in college, Monsieur said that one of the main differences between American and French cinema is that Americans need happy endings. We need closure. We need everything to be okay. We need the guy to get the girl and ride off into the sunset. I can understand a majority of American movie-goers wanting that, since that's how most movies end up. But I like a good open ending every now and again, a movie that makes me think. Sometimes I just need a movie that makes me bawl like I'm two years old again. (The Time Traveler's Wife, anyone? I cried at the end of the book and knew what was going to happen at the end of the movie, and I sat there sobbing anyway.)
But I'll sum up the entire premise of the book for you. Lady's maid Sally Naldrett, about as loyal as a Labrador retriever, follows her mistress (referred to throughout the entire book as My Lady, slightly irksome) to Egypt because her mistress suffers from tuberculosis. I want a summation, not a spoilation, so I'll just say that shit happens and Sally's lady refuses to have anything to do with her. Ever. Hate hate loathe. Subsequently, Sally spends the second half of the book wondering what she did wrong and why her lady doesn't love her anymore.
The writing is fine, the book was well researched. I just don't like the main character. She's too Bella Swan. (Oh girl, don't even get me started on her.)
On a more positive note, I started The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen. On a slightly more pessimistic note, I'm waiting for whatever ominous thing it is to be revealed. Almost halfway through. Still waiting. Though I enjoy the characters of Milly and Twiss much more than I enjoyed Sally.
In other news...
Happy birthday to my grandmother - Gree!! She's the woman who originally taught me that it's okay to dress up in crazy outfits. The only person you should be worried about is yourself, and if you're having fun.
Game of Thrones tonight.
Day off tomorrow.
Plans?
Sweep the house
Finish my dirndl for the Reading Air Show
Trim my RevWar duck butt hat.
Draft a Civil War chemise pattern???
Eh. Mow the grass.
I'm so jealous! Game of Thrones! Eh, I'll just download it somewhere tomorrow :3.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I promised myself I wouldn't watch anymore. I started the second season, and it didn't make sense. I started reading the 2nd book and I was fine. I just got lost when everything switched to the Stannis place.
I think that reading the books along with watching the show is really beneficial - the books can get confusing because you switch POVs so frequently, and GRRM's plotlines are -very- intricate, and the show is very much written for people who already have some kind of an idea of what's going on. (Although my BFF has never read the books and can follow it quite well.) But the books obviously tell you more of what's going on and the show compliments the books by giving you a visual and letting you put faces to names. It's brilliant, really. Just a shame we'll all be dead by the time Book Six comes out.
DeleteI love this already!
ReplyDeleteI think you should also know that just because of your ravings of the Diana Gabaldon series, I had looked at them in Barnes and Noble before, and did again today. I'm always looking for a new, good book. However, I don't know if I would like them. (I know you loved them!) Maybe it was the back of the book that soured it for me? I'm not sure.
Any recommendations? or comments on the Diana Gabaldon series?
(I'm so happy about this blog!!)
I am super excited that you love the blog and super excited that you looked at the Outlander books!!!!! Oh em gee. Seriously, she has an incredible thing going. I will warn you though - Jamie Fraser ruined men for me for the rest of my life. I blame him for the high standards I now have. Oh god, Jamie Fraser... The back of the book, eh... it sucks because it has to be so general because there's just so much material in the books. Oh you'll absolutely fall in love with those books!! I promise!! Other recommendations? Game of Thrones. If you haven't read those either, I'm not giving you any more reading recs until you've done both Outlander and Thrones!! I promise, you'll be hooked!
DeleteI will give the outlander series a try then :).
DeleteI was initially interested in game of thrones until I saw the show. It seems so...dark, demeaning to women, and makes me feel unhopeful I feel. Is it just me? Haha