Book Tracker #8 & #9, plus ouchie knee
Apr. 13th, 2019 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedwordsEnd of March, I sprained my knee and then less than a week later, I decided I really didn't need the brace that the doc gave me. Well, I walked down the stairs at work, and ...ZAP! Screwed it up big time, and couldn't put weight on it to walk; I spent most of the following week on the couch, resting the leg and taking advil. Things are resolving, I am not in pain anymore, and I am using the brace all the time when I am up and around. I have got an appointment with the doc to check again to make sure it wasn't anything that needs surgery, and have my physical therapy discussion. So, hopefully, in a few more weeks, it will all be better.
You'd think that with all that resting I would have read more, but I didn't. I watched a lot of you tube, and finished up some feel good TV on Netflix (like Marie Kondo, Queer Eye, that stuff.) I played a lot of casual games too.
I did finish two novellas though!
8) Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
She had me at Fun Victorian Lesbian Romance for an older crowd. The characters are fun and engaging, the terrible nephew is as advertised and deserves punishment. The main clash is class related, a smart working woman and a smartass rich woman who meet, have issues, torment the terrible nephew, and fall in love. It was adorable and poignant at time, and I loved it. It's also pretty much in my wheelhouse, and as we are an underserved community at best, that may have added some extra spice to the romance.
9) Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
After I finished the fourth book in the series, I realized I hadn't read the third! Luckily, none of the stories really depend on anything that isn't in the first book. I liked the plot in this one a lot, and enjoyed having a quest structure to hang the story on; however the main character really didn't grab me and she should have. Our relationship just never clicked. I empathized a lot with the secondary characters in this story, and I think Christopher with his one flute was my favorite. I only had one moment where I could see through to the pop cultural influence that inspired a bit of the story -- King Candy! -- which jarred a little, but otherwise it was pretty seamless fun.
You'd think that with all that resting I would have read more, but I didn't. I watched a lot of you tube, and finished up some feel good TV on Netflix (like Marie Kondo, Queer Eye, that stuff.) I played a lot of casual games too.
I did finish two novellas though!
8) Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
She had me at Fun Victorian Lesbian Romance for an older crowd. The characters are fun and engaging, the terrible nephew is as advertised and deserves punishment. The main clash is class related, a smart working woman and a smartass rich woman who meet, have issues, torment the terrible nephew, and fall in love. It was adorable and poignant at time, and I loved it. It's also pretty much in my wheelhouse, and as we are an underserved community at best, that may have added some extra spice to the romance.
9) Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
After I finished the fourth book in the series, I realized I hadn't read the third! Luckily, none of the stories really depend on anything that isn't in the first book. I liked the plot in this one a lot, and enjoyed having a quest structure to hang the story on; however the main character really didn't grab me and she should have. Our relationship just never clicked. I empathized a lot with the secondary characters in this story, and I think Christopher with his one flute was my favorite. I only had one moment where I could see through to the pop cultural influence that inspired a bit of the story -- King Candy! -- which jarred a little, but otherwise it was pretty seamless fun.
