Mostly MIA
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shipperxSo... Mostly MIA.
Nothing exciting. I've done a lot of work at the University punch-listing the new baseball stadium, which was kind of exhausting. But at least I got outside and experienced sunshine.
One of my best friends got diagnosed with a melanoma but the doctors think they removed everything so that's good.
Puppy has been a doll
Saw the photos for the upcoming season of Game of Thrones. Nothing particularly spoilers. Just that ...
Sansa and Theon survived the jump and boy has Bran grown. (Pretty convinced this is a dream/vision so I don't think he's in-paralyzed)
In Downton, Edith is happy... Which is a sure sign of tragedy about to strike.
I've been watching the new season of the X-Files. Last night's episode (and the first two episodes) was a hot mess. The Darrin Morgan penned episode with the Were-monster was sublime, though. Hilarious, philosophical, and charming. As Scully said, this is how I like my Mulder. Last night's 'shroom tripped Mulder was cringe-worthy. Though Scully almost always rocks.
Antonin Scalia died. And it's a bit like the axiom of 'if you can't say something nice, then say nothing." So ______________
In the reading list lately (honestly didn't really notice the overlap until I started to write this up)
His Road Home . I don't usually read contemporaries, but Smart Bitches gave it an A, so I tried it and really liked it.
Hero is a Dreamer (son of illegal Mexican migrant workers) who dropped out of high school and joined the army when his father was killed in a work accident and the family needed money. Ten years later, he's a medic in Afghanastan when he steps on a land mine. He survives, but loses both legs and suffers aphasia because of the head injury. Because of reasons explained in the novel, there's a picture of one of his sister's old soccer teammates labeled as his fiancé when the vid of his story goes viral. Suddenly this Korean-American marine biologist in Seattle finds herself fielding questions about her hero 'fiancé' and having no idea about any of this. Long story short, she finds herself ushered onto a plane to Walter Reed Hospital, wanting to discover what the heck is going on.
This was a lovely story that, despite the set-up, was a mostly happy read when the hero and heroine start a text messaging relationship during his months of rehabilitation in Walter Reed (he gets prosthetics (like these , which are impressive) and learns that he can type/text words even when he can't say them because of his aphasia), and she is shipped off to count Orcas in Alaska. When he's released from Walter Reed, she volunteers to road trip with him across the US on his way back to their mutual home town, and the real relationship begins.
Lovely story
Other book is Simply Love. I didn't recognize the similarity at the time, but there's overlap. It's a Regency where the hero lost his (right) arm, an eye, and was scarred during the Napoleonic wars. The heroine was a governess who had once been raped by the brother of one of her students and left pregnant, abandoned (by her stupid family!!!), to raise her son alone for the last ten years. In that era that pretty much makes her a social pariah. Both characters start off feeling like 'untouchables' when they meet, but slowly they fall into deep love.
This one was more sad but just as lovely.
I didn't intentionally choose the thematic overlap in these two stories ( and their general tone is quite different), but I really enjoyed both of these romantic novels. 👍👍
Nothing exciting. I've done a lot of work at the University punch-listing the new baseball stadium, which was kind of exhausting. But at least I got outside and experienced sunshine.
One of my best friends got diagnosed with a melanoma but the doctors think they removed everything so that's good.
Puppy has been a doll
Saw the photos for the upcoming season of Game of Thrones. Nothing particularly spoilers. Just that ...
Sansa and Theon survived the jump and boy has Bran grown. (Pretty convinced this is a dream/vision so I don't think he's in-paralyzed)
In Downton, Edith is happy... Which is a sure sign of tragedy about to strike.
I've been watching the new season of the X-Files. Last night's episode (and the first two episodes) was a hot mess. The Darrin Morgan penned episode with the Were-monster was sublime, though. Hilarious, philosophical, and charming. As Scully said, this is how I like my Mulder. Last night's 'shroom tripped Mulder was cringe-worthy. Though Scully almost always rocks.
Antonin Scalia died. And it's a bit like the axiom of 'if you can't say something nice, then say nothing." So ______________
In the reading list lately (honestly didn't really notice the overlap until I started to write this up)
His Road Home . I don't usually read contemporaries, but Smart Bitches gave it an A, so I tried it and really liked it.
Hero is a Dreamer (son of illegal Mexican migrant workers) who dropped out of high school and joined the army when his father was killed in a work accident and the family needed money. Ten years later, he's a medic in Afghanastan when he steps on a land mine. He survives, but loses both legs and suffers aphasia because of the head injury. Because of reasons explained in the novel, there's a picture of one of his sister's old soccer teammates labeled as his fiancé when the vid of his story goes viral. Suddenly this Korean-American marine biologist in Seattle finds herself fielding questions about her hero 'fiancé' and having no idea about any of this. Long story short, she finds herself ushered onto a plane to Walter Reed Hospital, wanting to discover what the heck is going on.
This was a lovely story that, despite the set-up, was a mostly happy read when the hero and heroine start a text messaging relationship during his months of rehabilitation in Walter Reed (he gets prosthetics (like these , which are impressive) and learns that he can type/text words even when he can't say them because of his aphasia), and she is shipped off to count Orcas in Alaska. When he's released from Walter Reed, she volunteers to road trip with him across the US on his way back to their mutual home town, and the real relationship begins.
Lovely story
Other book is Simply Love. I didn't recognize the similarity at the time, but there's overlap. It's a Regency where the hero lost his (right) arm, an eye, and was scarred during the Napoleonic wars. The heroine was a governess who had once been raped by the brother of one of her students and left pregnant, abandoned (by her stupid family!!!), to raise her son alone for the last ten years. In that era that pretty much makes her a social pariah. Both characters start off feeling like 'untouchables' when they meet, but slowly they fall into deep love.
This one was more sad but just as lovely.
I didn't intentionally choose the thematic overlap in these two stories ( and their general tone is quite different), but I really enjoyed both of these romantic novels. 👍👍
