In the last couple of weeks I've read three of Sarah Addison Allen's books and hated every single one.

In order I read Garden Spells, The Girl Who Chased the Moon, and The Sugar Queen which I just finished last night.

The things I hated, in order:

• The women (ostensibly the main characters) have no emotional agency. I think Ms. Allen took the ( Read more... )

I got stung by a bee this morning ( Read more... )

My younger sister is one of those rare people who loves giving gifts as much as getting them, so she goes to great pains to get you the perfect present.

For me that was this purse in gray. (The best picture is the bottom one under the brown color selection ( Read more... )

"Summery" means befitting the season of summer, that warm one between spring and autumn, the one we're experiencing right now in the northern hemisphere.

Summary means a brief synopsis of events or text ( Read more... )

I have an amazing family and wonderful friends who made this birthday so much better than it otherwise would have been.

Thank you everyone who sent me good wishes. You have no idea how much I love you for your kindness.

Both No Doubt and the Spice Girls are performing again.

...I'm not back in seventh grade am I? I hated middle school.

I saw Bourne Legacy in the theater today.

The only thing I really have to say about it is I've already bookmarked the Aaron Cross/Marta Shearing tag on AO3. :D

People,

First person is "I" narrating
Second person is "You" narrating
Third person is "She/He/It"* narrating ( Read more... )

The house to left of us has been empty for several years and there's a large blackberry bush growing up though the lilac tree that's in the corner of the yard that abuts ours. There are literally thousands of blackberries on it and they're all starting to ripen at about the same time ( Read more... )

If you can spare a good thought today could you send it my mom's way, please? She's under sedation right now getting all her teeth pulled to get dentures. She's only 55, but that's what happenes when you spend thirty-five years smoking and drinking sugared coffee all day every day. She'll spend the next couple of days with her mouth full of gauze, ( Read more... )