It is about to be very, very cold. A friend visited from Brooklyn. Well, she was actually here for a funeral but we had dinner. Her husband (now deceased) took writing classes with me in the 90s. I miss a lot of people nowadays.
I watched the four- part treatment of EMMA from 2009, which was excellent and am thinking of devoting myself to watching every version of Austen novels I can find online since there is not too much else. I did watch SEVERANCE and have still not make up my mind about it. A show like that has to stick the landing and will it? Also watching INSIDE NO 9, which is good enough. I don't demand too much from 30 minutes shows. I enjoyed BLACK TULIP but maybe not enough to watch a second series. Am enjoying ALL CREATURES.
Certainly the Lions didn't stick the landing. But man, it was a fun 17 games until that one.
About to start YELLOW FACE for one of my book groups. I would like to read a second book by William Shaw but it looks like the central character in BIRDWATCHER doesn't come back. Am I willing to pay $13 on Kindle because my library only has BIRDWATCHER. Listening to THE YEAR OF LEAR by Shapiro.
Delta has changed our flight BACK from Sarasota three times now. We should have flown into Tampa, I guess.
Going to see SING SING today. Been waiting for that to arrive here since the Fall.
What about you?
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Tomorrow morning we are going to get blood tests that were ordered at our Annual Medicare Wellness appointments, and that plus breakfast plus grocery shopping could take a while, so I am leaving my comment Sunday night.
I think I could watch (or rewatch) all available adaptations of the Jane Austen books, well almost all of them. We do have some of them on disc.
The main character in BIRDWATCHER does come back, but it takes a while. However, you are right about the high cost of getting copies of the books, so it might not be worth it. I had to make an effort to find used copies.
Watching: We have finally started watching the 4th season of SLOW HORSES, but I can't think of any new we have started.
I read THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ILL-MANNERED LADIES by Alison Goodman. Glen and I were both interested in this book when it first came out, but it has been sitting in a stack of TBR books for a while and I was the first to read it. I enjoyed the Regency setting and the characters. The story is a good blend of historical fiction, mystery, and romance, and a lot of fun. I started reading one of Glen's mysteries from the British Library Crime Classics series, THIRTEEN GUESTS by J. Jefferson Farjeon. It is a country house mystery and I like it so far.
Glen is continuing to read THE DEMON OF UNREST by Erik Larson, but he has not started another short story book as far as I know. My next Short Story Wednesday post will be about three of his short story books of ghost stories and / or weird stories.
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