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chocolatepotTaking a break from the monster 1770s post I'm working on. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA. You know what is really nice, though, the Met has enormous high-res images of their prints that you can download and crop.
So aaaaages ago I posted about being unable to stand Game of Kings at all, andthistlerose was like, hang in there, it's really good. And I kind of didn't believe her. And I took the book back because I wasn't reading it. Quite a few weeks ago I got it out again and started reading it, and I wasn't having much fun because this was actually the third time I was reading the beginning, and no, I didn't get into it. I kind of slowly pushed through, and it definitely got more enjoyable once I at least got past where I'd left off before, but it still spent quite a few weeks sitting on my floor in the pile of other historical fiction I wasn't getting around to reading but couldn't bring myself to take back to the library because damn it I will get to them. And then very recently I got hooked. I will tell you the exact place.
"Your beautiful hands!"
"And my beautiful back!"
HOOKED. SWOONED. I still understand about half the dialogue and a third of the plot (that's probably being generous), but by the time he was willing to be loaded with chains because if he spoke Christian would know it was him, the switch flipped from "nah" to "DEVOUR". Honestly, I think part of the problem I was having was that I just don't like Will Scott as a PoV character?
Anyway. I clearly have specific tastes. (All the reviews I can find bring up his robbing Sybilla and burning the castle as things that make him partially unsympathetic, and it's like ... I get that on an intellectual level, but it worked for me.)
Last night, Dad and I went to Saratoga, ate dinner at Hattie's (I tried beignets, OM NOM, though I expected something lighter), and shopped at Lowe's. My bathroom now has new paint, a new vanity light fixture, and a new shower curtain rod, all things it needed badly. Especially the curtain rod, the old one was at least twenty years old and maybe older and coming apart. The old light was gross and rusty, too. Anyway, because I've picked out everything it all goes together (apart from the window curtain) in some kind of ancient-world theme, which is really nice.
So aaaaages ago I posted about being unable to stand Game of Kings at all, and
thistlerose was like, hang in there, it's really good. And I kind of didn't believe her. And I took the book back because I wasn't reading it. Quite a few weeks ago I got it out again and started reading it, and I wasn't having much fun because this was actually the third time I was reading the beginning, and no, I didn't get into it. I kind of slowly pushed through, and it definitely got more enjoyable once I at least got past where I'd left off before, but it still spent quite a few weeks sitting on my floor in the pile of other historical fiction I wasn't getting around to reading but couldn't bring myself to take back to the library because damn it I will get to them. And then very recently I got hooked. I will tell you the exact place."Your beautiful hands!"
"And my beautiful back!"
HOOKED. SWOONED. I still understand about half the dialogue and a third of the plot (that's probably being generous), but by the time he was willing to be loaded with chains because if he spoke Christian would know it was him, the switch flipped from "nah" to "DEVOUR". Honestly, I think part of the problem I was having was that I just don't like Will Scott as a PoV character?
Anyway. I clearly have specific tastes. (All the reviews I can find bring up his robbing Sybilla and burning the castle as things that make him partially unsympathetic, and it's like ... I get that on an intellectual level, but it worked for me.)
Last night, Dad and I went to Saratoga, ate dinner at Hattie's (I tried beignets, OM NOM, though I expected something lighter), and shopped at Lowe's. My bathroom now has new paint, a new vanity light fixture, and a new shower curtain rod, all things it needed badly. Especially the curtain rod, the old one was at least twenty years old and maybe older and coming apart. The old light was gross and rusty, too. Anyway, because I've picked out everything it all goes together (apart from the window curtain) in some kind of ancient-world theme, which is really nice.
