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A very busy time of year, this, with birthdays and festivals and Halloween coming up, plus I am still attempting to catch up with delayed medical appointments, so every day this week has some necessity that takes up a few hours, plus all four of us are still (and/or again) mildly sick with a cold/cough combination that makes for irregular sleep. Yet despite all of that, I am in good spirits; the weather is being properly autumnal for this part of California, cool enough in the mornings for a jacket, warm but not hot in the afternoons, and the cool overnight means that some of the trees have begun changing rather than waiting until mid-November. Running errands this morning I picked up two new hard ciders to try, and I am looking forward to being over this cold and able to sample them.
We have done precisely two days of Inktober so far, which does not surprise me very much, and I think I am just going to keep going as I have time, even if it takes me until May to finish the thirty prompts. When we can make time and attention for it (drawing does not go well when we are very tired) it is extremely pleasurable, so why not continue at our own pace? I will try soon to post links and share what we have done.
I am all caught up through the end of Season 3 of The Good Place and am letting it sit for a few days before I dive into Season 4. It's so good!
As for reading, I am in the middle of many books, which I will give their own post, and still steadily (re)reading through Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels -- my favourite thus far is A Murder is Announced as it combines village life with one of my favourite tropes. I also enjoyed The Moving Finger for similar reasons but there was something left unresolved at the ending which my mind has spent days upon days trying to work out -- namely what is going to happen to the Symmington boys? They have lost both parents and their primary caregiver (Elsie), and I can't imagine Megan is going to really think about them as people -- given the period I'm guessing Megan & Jerry will send them away to school and they'll grow up traumatised by it all, which is not the ending I want. My imagined solution is that the book clearly takes place before WW2, so maybe the war breaks out, the boys don't get sent away after all, and Megan grows fond of them? Is she self-aware enough to realise that she doesn't want to do to them what was done to her? I can see it working if she and Jerry wait quite a while for their own children, maybe until the war is over. Or maybe the Vicar & his awesome wife take the boys in, since they have no children, doubtless due to the Vicar having "absolutely no taste for fornication"? I can imagine her as an excellent caregiver and she is formidable enough that maybe it would be all right for them to grow up in Lymstock -- she has such a no-nonsense face-the-facts attitude that I can picture her normalising the tragedy so they're able to just move through it.
I might try to write it down, but really, the thinking it out seems satisfying in itself -- and if anyone has actually read the book and has opinions, I would love to hear them.
We have done precisely two days of Inktober so far, which does not surprise me very much, and I think I am just going to keep going as I have time, even if it takes me until May to finish the thirty prompts. When we can make time and attention for it (drawing does not go well when we are very tired) it is extremely pleasurable, so why not continue at our own pace? I will try soon to post links and share what we have done.
I am all caught up through the end of Season 3 of The Good Place and am letting it sit for a few days before I dive into Season 4. It's so good!
As for reading, I am in the middle of many books, which I will give their own post, and still steadily (re)reading through Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels -- my favourite thus far is A Murder is Announced as it combines village life with one of my favourite tropes. I also enjoyed The Moving Finger for similar reasons but there was something left unresolved at the ending which my mind has spent days upon days trying to work out -- namely what is going to happen to the Symmington boys? They have lost both parents and their primary caregiver (Elsie), and I can't imagine Megan is going to really think about them as people -- given the period I'm guessing Megan & Jerry will send them away to school and they'll grow up traumatised by it all, which is not the ending I want. My imagined solution is that the book clearly takes place before WW2, so maybe the war breaks out, the boys don't get sent away after all, and Megan grows fond of them? Is she self-aware enough to realise that she doesn't want to do to them what was done to her? I can see it working if she and Jerry wait quite a while for their own children, maybe until the war is over. Or maybe the Vicar & his awesome wife take the boys in, since they have no children, doubtless due to the Vicar having "absolutely no taste for fornication"? I can imagine her as an excellent caregiver and she is formidable enough that maybe it would be all right for them to grow up in Lymstock -- she has such a no-nonsense face-the-facts attitude that I can picture her normalising the tragedy so they're able to just move through it.
I might try to write it down, but really, the thinking it out seems satisfying in itself -- and if anyone has actually read the book and has opinions, I would love to hear them.
