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Good Lord could the day end without me getting any dumber?
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esteefee made me a beautiful, pottery bowl! It is the most gorgeous shade of blue and big enough to hold a whole pint of raspberries. I loves it! Thank you so much. :) It now has pride of place in the china cabinet!
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Next of Kin by Joanna Trollope
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book is well written. It has a great sense of place, and I feel like it is probably describing very accurately the culture of a close-knit, hard scrabble farming community in England.
The problem is that I don't find any of the characters likable. They're all emotionally stunted, incapable of meaningful communication, holding everything close to the vest, stoic, reserved--doers, not sayers. And I think this is, again, probably very true to those sorts of communities, but it's tedious to read. I find empathizing with and sympathizing with them very difficult and so couldn't get into the book at all.
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3. And this post was interrupted by me falling for a fraud scam. *headdesk* I'd like to say that it was brilliant and clever and that I was duped by the best, but the truth is that I was an idiot and fell for it. *sigh* Fortunately, when I suggested, "Hey, this doesn't seem right. Is this a scam?" the dude responded by hanging up on me, so I was immediately able to contact Verizon and get it all sorted out (which took less than 20 minutes on the phone, I might add; it's clear that they deal with these scams and this kind of fraud so frequently that they've got it down to a science). So the guy changed my email and shipping address and tried to buy three $1200 i-phones, but they nipped that shit in the bud and everything is right as rain. I am so grateful that every time someone has tried to defraud me or steal from me, it's been instantly detected and instantly dealt with. I am very lucky. But also, I am a dumbass.
esteefee made me a beautiful, pottery bowl! It is the most gorgeous shade of blue and big enough to hold a whole pint of raspberries. I loves it! Thank you so much. :) It now has pride of place in the china cabinet!2.
Next of Kin by Joanna TrollopeMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book is well written. It has a great sense of place, and I feel like it is probably describing very accurately the culture of a close-knit, hard scrabble farming community in England.
The problem is that I don't find any of the characters likable. They're all emotionally stunted, incapable of meaningful communication, holding everything close to the vest, stoic, reserved--doers, not sayers. And I think this is, again, probably very true to those sorts of communities, but it's tedious to read. I find empathizing with and sympathizing with them very difficult and so couldn't get into the book at all.
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3. And this post was interrupted by me falling for a fraud scam. *headdesk* I'd like to say that it was brilliant and clever and that I was duped by the best, but the truth is that I was an idiot and fell for it. *sigh* Fortunately, when I suggested, "Hey, this doesn't seem right. Is this a scam?" the dude responded by hanging up on me, so I was immediately able to contact Verizon and get it all sorted out (which took less than 20 minutes on the phone, I might add; it's clear that they deal with these scams and this kind of fraud so frequently that they've got it down to a science). So the guy changed my email and shipping address and tried to buy three $1200 i-phones, but they nipped that shit in the bud and everything is right as rain. I am so grateful that every time someone has tried to defraud me or steal from me, it's been instantly detected and instantly dealt with. I am very lucky. But also, I am a dumbass.
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It is neat that they're related. I've also got a Frances Trollope novel somewhere in my TBR mountain that I will read someday, as well as her book laughing at Americans!
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I don't know Frances Trollope.
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But her most famous work was Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832, which was about her travels through the young United States and her foray into shopkeeping in Cincinnati, which was still a frontier town at the time. She makes fun of us as only a Brit can. The excerpts I've read from it are tremendous fun, and eventually I will read the whole thing.
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That sounds quite up my alley. I shall add it to my list!