What You Can Normally Expect... (Boredom)

[lydamorehouse]

 
Image: a colorful autumnal tree from my family's recent visit to Lakewood Cemetery (Minneapolis, MN)

So, due to a recent dust-up that I shall only obliquely allude to, several new folks have discovered my DW. You're here, no doubt, for the fireworks, but I'm typically 1) not that regular a blogger and 2) sort of dull (she says self-deprecatingly---I know I'm truly awesome, but let's get real. I typically blog about my quilting, my family and cats, and taking pictures of bees.)  I will not blame you if you do not stay. 

Speaking of my raging dullness, here it is already "What are You Reading Wednesday" and I have nothing to report. To be fair to me and my slow-reading dyslexic brain, I've been hyperfocused on my up-coming Bryant-Lake Bowl gig and so I've been reading my own short story, over and over again, in an attempt to have it practiced enough for the stage. I also discovered that I neglected Libby long enough that it automatically returned the audiobook of Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson which I had only gotten about 15% into, if that. Ah, well. Did I like it enough to hunt for it again? Proably not. So, now, later today, I'll have to see what else Libby might have for me that's actually available to be borrowed (<--always the real issue.) I still have a pile of manga at my bedside, so I have a few physical books to read as well, including the amusingly titled: My New Boss is Goofy by Ichikawa Dan. I also have a shounen manga called Tank Chair, which is--at least from the cover illustration--about wheelchair mechs, I think?? I'll let you know once I get to it, I guess.

How about you? Reading anything you'd recommend? Aything you wouldn't?

I'm about to go downstairs and cook up something for lunch from the veggies that I got from a new free market food stall place. Unlike the usual food bank charity places, this place--whose name I'm blanking on (and the flyer is in the car!)--believes in the radical concept that everyone should get to reap the benefits of a bountiful harvest. So, like, I don't have to prove that I have economic need, which is nice because our family falls in-between and gets lost in some of the economic cracks. My wife makes an okay salary, but I'm a writer. We have three mouths to feed and we can mostly do just fine? Except those weeks when there's an unexpected bill? And, we have savings, so we really do NOT qualify for most programs like this. But, this place is like, "Be nurished, comrade," and I fucking love that.  

See? This is the typical blog. To be fair, the fun stuff now will probably be locked.

Comments

[sabotabby]

Personally I think you're a delight.

[lydamorehouse]

Back at ya!

[carbonel]

I just finished listening to the audiobook of The Jane Austen Society. I'd give it a mild recommendation, especially for Janeites. It had some really annoying plot points, though.

I'm now listening to Stephen Fry read A Study in Scarlet. His voice is great, and the story is coming back to me as I listen. Also reading John Brunner's The Crucible of Time in ebook format for book club.

[lydamorehouse]

Those all sound good. I always feel like a fake English major because I was never all that smitten with Jane Austin's stuff. I'm glad that Karen Joy Fowler hit is big with her Jane Austin Book Club novel, but like that's kind of it for me. Not to harsh your squee! So many people I know and love also LOVE Austin!

I just started an audiobook (actually an audio novella) by Arkady Martine called Rose House. I have previously (speaking of feeling like a fake fan) not read anything by Arkady Martine. I'm enjoying this quite a bit, though.