Yes, I've had yet another relapse of this 'cold/flu/allergy/God only knows what' last week. It all started the Saturday after Thanksgiving when one of our adorable little germ-bombs (aka grandchildren) gave me something over Thanksgiving. Everytime I start feeling like myself - it comes back!
Let's just say, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!! But on the plus side, I've read A LOT of books and watched A LOT of movies!! Let's start with the Movies!
Begin Again - A delightful movie about musicians coming to NYC to make music. There are actors that can sing! Singers that can act! and if you love NYC - there's alot of that to see too! We got it thru Netflix. It reminded me alittle of the movie Once - about Irish bar singers. Both cheerful and fairly light!
Last Vegas - Oh my! Much more fun that I thought it would be! I love Kevin Kline, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Michael Douglas! But wait - there's more!!
At Middleton - a Romantic Comedy about two parents taking their respective children on a college visit.
Finding Vivian Maier - A documentary type movie about a nanny in NY / Chicago in the 50s-60s who took thousands of photographs. They were discovered when someone bought boxes in a storage unit sale. Really fascinating - I'm ready to look for the books made from the prints!!
All of the above movies passed the "but will it keep DH awake while watching it!!!" PS - we won't say anything to him about that little litmus test!!
Besides reading, I have been updating my database of "Books Read". I felt just good enough to piddle on the computer too! I've been rating books I've read since 1985!!! I wrote them down; rated them zero - four stars and kept track of how many books I read each year. A disclaimer - I'm not reading "War and Peace"! I love mysteries; science fiction; end of the earth tales ... I'm not really into Historic fiction. And I read fast.
My idea was to rate them, then look for the authors that got **** later to check if anything new by them was out! Works like a charm!
As I worked through the database I was finding 'holes' in series. If it's a library book, my system is to add it to my physical list the day I return it. BUT if it's borrowed from someone, read on vacation, and now - if it's read on Kindle - sometimes I miss listing it.
So I made a list and went to the library and checked out the unlisted books by favorite authors! So far, two thirds of that list haven't been read! So I've been really enjoying dipping back into my favorite authors and characters.
Stephen King - I got Revival for Christmas. Very good, so good that I went back and read Dr Sleep and Mr Mercedes! And Blaze by Richard Bachman! I smiled everytime there was a small reference to a past Stephen King book or TV miniseries in the stories.
Tony Hillerman - I love Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. I hadn't read The Sinister Pig, The Skeleton Man or The Shape Shifter. I'm sorry to report that Shape Shifter seems to be the last one. I hate when a series ends and this was a great series!
J A Jance has three series that I've followed. JoAnna Brady, Arizona sheriff; JP Beaumont, Seattle detective; and Ali Reynolds, TV journalist. I had missed Dead Wrong in the Brady series. Others to be checked out later.
Dana Stabenow - I was sorry that I HAD read all of her books. I love her Kate Shugak and Liam series. And isn't it fun when they 'meet' on a case. JA Jance does that too.
Nevada Barr - again, I HAD read all of her books. LOVE Anna Pigeon and 'visiting' all the National Parks in her books.
This week's books from the library include Lee Child, Michael McGarrity and Sue Miller. I'm looking forward to feeling better - but have the books on the ready if I relapse again!
We're having some sunny days between rain storms. Yesterday we walked down to the beach. We had a surprise there! There are some "new arrivals"! We have so many sea stacks and rocks lining our coast the real mystery is how on earth did logs this big get up to our trail to the beach! And eventually they will disappear again!! The ocean has some tricks up it's sleeve!
That's me on the right! You can see our path coming down to the beach. The logs must have banged around on the edge of the cliff because they were snugged up tight and lined up!
Hmmm, where did our path go??? And where to start?
DH standing in the middle - he's like a mountain goat climbing over these! Very sure-footed.
The view from up on the little bridge. That's about 20 feet up the path!
I love living on the coast, especially on sunny days, exploring the beach! You never know what you're going to find down there!
I'm headed to the Oregon Gardens Quilt Show and the Newport Guild Retreat this weekend. See you later with lots of stories to tell and pictures to post!?!
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