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1. This video of Jack Black getting the COVID vaccine and turning into a superhero made me LOL.
2. So, turns out that I have something called blepharitis which is the worst name ever for anything, and that's causing my dry eyes. I just got this eye medicine for it that I hope will help; it's got like 4500 reviews on Amazon, almost all of them of the OMG this works and changed my life variety. *crosses fingers*
3. An indigo bunting has been frequenting our fine dining establishment. It is so blue and pretty.
4. The ligustrum is finally blooming. The whole world smells divine!
5. So in news from bizarro world, I noticed a black speck on our TV this weekend. On closer inspection, a tiny fly somehow got INSIDE the TV and died behind the pane of glass of the TV. It's utterly impossible to remove. I cannot even.
6.
Amelia Bedelia Means Business by Herman Parish
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Again, delightfully silly. Much like Wild Bill, I admire that Amelia Bedelia never gives up and that when something doesn't work out, she tries a new tack.
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7.
Victorian Novelists by James Oliphant
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It is deeply silly.
Oliphant sets it up as a battle royale between a handful of prominent Victorian writers. Who will reign supreme? Spoiler alert: it's the Georges. Eliot wins top prize and Meredith second.
Oliphant roundly criticizes everyone else he writes about, and even the Georges come in for their fair share of his critique.
Obviously a book like this tells me little about Victorian writers and more about Oliphant himself and more broadly what a certain segment of fin de siecle British readers thought about what they read (and issues of gender and colonialism and etc).
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2. So, turns out that I have something called blepharitis which is the worst name ever for anything, and that's causing my dry eyes. I just got this eye medicine for it that I hope will help; it's got like 4500 reviews on Amazon, almost all of them of the OMG this works and changed my life variety. *crosses fingers*
3. An indigo bunting has been frequenting our fine dining establishment. It is so blue and pretty.
4. The ligustrum is finally blooming. The whole world smells divine!
5. So in news from bizarro world, I noticed a black speck on our TV this weekend. On closer inspection, a tiny fly somehow got INSIDE the TV and died behind the pane of glass of the TV. It's utterly impossible to remove. I cannot even.
6.
Amelia Bedelia Means Business by Herman ParishMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Again, delightfully silly. Much like Wild Bill, I admire that Amelia Bedelia never gives up and that when something doesn't work out, she tries a new tack.
View all my reviews
7.
Victorian Novelists by James OliphantMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It is deeply silly.
Oliphant sets it up as a battle royale between a handful of prominent Victorian writers. Who will reign supreme? Spoiler alert: it's the Georges. Eliot wins top prize and Meredith second.
Oliphant roundly criticizes everyone else he writes about, and even the Georges come in for their fair share of his critique.
Obviously a book like this tells me little about Victorian writers and more about Oliphant himself and more broadly what a certain segment of fin de siecle British readers thought about what they read (and issues of gender and colonialism and etc).
View all my reviews
