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Bro comes by for a visit in the sweaty muggy achy morning, since he still patronizes a barber in the 'hood. Cottage is on the market but he is not sanguine about it selling, given the way markets are now. It didn't sell before the pandemic when things were ever so much better. One can still hope. But since he was here he opened my unbudging cold brew coffee cap for me, so that was a win.
Wind picked up in the afternoon and blew away most of the mug. Temps stayed under 30C/ 86F and thus were pleasant, whereas this morning's 25/ 77 felt 10C hotter. Also I had another sleepless night last night, threw in the towel at 6 a.m., and have felt lousy all day in consequence.
Finished Return to Dragon Mountain, another Charles Finch, and a couple of George Bellairs on the tablet. Am still reading Terra Nostra until I get to the library, but wonder how I never registered how very very much of it is about the building of the Escorial. Varied by dipping into Walpole and, inevitably, more rereading of Murderbot. One-eyed insomnia reading is still Emma and Emma is so very much justifying Austen's characterisation of her as unlikable. I gather one mustn't call her a snob because that had another meaning back then (IIRC it was lower class people trying to cultivate their betters and scorning the base degrees from which they sprung/ not knowing their place/ sort of?) but from the viewpoint of a society not so caste-ridden as Emma's, Emma is a snob. All these will be put on hold once I get to the library.
Wind picked up in the afternoon and blew away most of the mug. Temps stayed under 30C/ 86F and thus were pleasant, whereas this morning's 25/ 77 felt 10C hotter. Also I had another sleepless night last night, threw in the towel at 6 a.m., and have felt lousy all day in consequence.
Finished Return to Dragon Mountain, another Charles Finch, and a couple of George Bellairs on the tablet. Am still reading Terra Nostra until I get to the library, but wonder how I never registered how very very much of it is about the building of the Escorial. Varied by dipping into Walpole and, inevitably, more rereading of Murderbot. One-eyed insomnia reading is still Emma and Emma is so very much justifying Austen's characterisation of her as unlikable. I gather one mustn't call her a snob because that had another meaning back then (IIRC it was lower class people trying to cultivate their betters and scorning the base degrees from which they sprung/ not knowing their place/ sort of?) but from the viewpoint of a society not so caste-ridden as Emma's, Emma is a snob. All these will be put on hold once I get to the library.
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I have been watching Murderbot, never read it. Put off by the lame ending of season 1, but maybe it works better in prose. I should give it a try.
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She does have a warm heart and is pleasantly sensible when being Lady Bountiful. She does what's practical, gives practical advice when needed, and thinks anything more is de trop. No moralizing at the poor.
There's no teary eyes with Gurathin in the book. You can decide if that's preferable or not.