books, sleep, harvest
Aug. 11th, 2006 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaA slew of regency romances:
Mary Balogh, A Christmas Bride (1997). A Signet Regency, but very dark indeed for all that, and with a heroine it is difficult to like. AND explicit pre-marital sex. Huh.
Mary Balogh, Slightly Married (2003). A re-read, actually, though I didn't realize it until I got it home from the library. The first of this series, and my favorite - I realize that I really like restraint, even repression, in a romance novel.
Mary Balogh, Slightly Sinful (2004). Funny that a light caper (which involves deep issues) could be written by the same woman who 7 years earlier wrote the first in this list. I kept thinking the whores were in their 40s, which was weird.
Celeste Bradley, The Pretender (2003). So very ridiculous. Maybe this might have worked if the tone had been more high farce, but as it was I just kept boggling at the deeply stupid numerous people who were supposedly master spies. Never mind the completely ahistorical characters. I can't believe I even read it - I had to pause after every chapter ro roll my eyes.
One month today. We are decidedly cranky. Why don't other people's babies do this? mr. flea chatted up a woman with a 3.5 week old at the Whole Foods who reported that her first was sleeping 7-7 at 6 weeks. Ours has trouble sleeping even when you are holding him and rocking him. We're getting one 3-4 hour stretch a night and then lots of struggle to get further 1-2 hour kips. He wanted to be wide awake at 3am today.
Harvest:
1 pole bean
3 German Johnson tomatoes
amazingly, my zucchini has DIED.
Mary Balogh, A Christmas Bride (1997). A Signet Regency, but very dark indeed for all that, and with a heroine it is difficult to like. AND explicit pre-marital sex. Huh.
Mary Balogh, Slightly Married (2003). A re-read, actually, though I didn't realize it until I got it home from the library. The first of this series, and my favorite - I realize that I really like restraint, even repression, in a romance novel.
Mary Balogh, Slightly Sinful (2004). Funny that a light caper (which involves deep issues) could be written by the same woman who 7 years earlier wrote the first in this list. I kept thinking the whores were in their 40s, which was weird.
Celeste Bradley, The Pretender (2003). So very ridiculous. Maybe this might have worked if the tone had been more high farce, but as it was I just kept boggling at the deeply stupid numerous people who were supposedly master spies. Never mind the completely ahistorical characters. I can't believe I even read it - I had to pause after every chapter ro roll my eyes.
One month today. We are decidedly cranky. Why don't other people's babies do this? mr. flea chatted up a woman with a 3.5 week old at the Whole Foods who reported that her first was sleeping 7-7 at 6 weeks. Ours has trouble sleeping even when you are holding him and rocking him. We're getting one 3-4 hour stretch a night and then lots of struggle to get further 1-2 hour kips. He wanted to be wide awake at 3am today.
Harvest:
1 pole bean
3 German Johnson tomatoes
amazingly, my zucchini has DIED.