Baby, Movie, Book
Mar. 15th, 2014 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Squiddle woke up screaming from a sound sleep around 10:30 last night, and it took both Wonderful Husband and myself about fifteen minutes just to get the baby to stop crying.
I'm hanging the dreamcatcher over his crib before bedtime tonight. You know, just in case.
And, of course, me having earlyish morning dance class today, Squiddle woke up wet and hungry an hour before my alarm was to go off....
Other than that, Wonderful Husband and I went to see Ernest and Celestine before it left the theaters. It was quite good, beautiful animation, wonderful voice acting on the English-language dub. Well worth the watch, if it happens to be in theaters near you!
And, a book review:
Title: Mistletoe & Magic
Author: Lisa Cach, Stobie Piel, Lynsay Sands, Amy Elizabeth Saunders
Length: 393 pages
Another set of romance novellas, this time from the year 2000. This book gets a higher "like" average from me than the last one - two out of four instead of one out of four. The first story, which I was meh about, set in medieval times, is about a ditzy novice fairy godmother who actually turns out to have been playing a fairly good game of reverse psychology. The second, set in Victorian Vermont, centers on the various meanings of "spectacle" - both the type that help you see clearly, and the type that asses make of themselves. I thought the hero's surname being "Goodman" was a bit on the nose, but otherwise I really liked this one. Story three, in Victorian Washington, is about a destitute, pregnant widow-and-mother-of-two who sort of bullies her way into a job as a housekeeper, and of course ends up with the gent. The story also contains more than just slight hints of angelic intervention. I liked this one two. And the last story, about two of Santa's craftsmen (humans, not elves or yeti), was painful to read. I've never been fond of the simultaneous mutual love-and-loathing thing.
Verdict: If you like romances and it's cheap, it's worth picking up.
And now that it's starting to cool down a bit, off I go to change into work clothes and much about in the garden.
I'm hanging the dreamcatcher over his crib before bedtime tonight. You know, just in case.
And, of course, me having earlyish morning dance class today, Squiddle woke up wet and hungry an hour before my alarm was to go off....
Other than that, Wonderful Husband and I went to see Ernest and Celestine before it left the theaters. It was quite good, beautiful animation, wonderful voice acting on the English-language dub. Well worth the watch, if it happens to be in theaters near you!
And, a book review:
Title: Mistletoe & Magic
Author: Lisa Cach, Stobie Piel, Lynsay Sands, Amy Elizabeth Saunders
Length: 393 pages
Another set of romance novellas, this time from the year 2000. This book gets a higher "like" average from me than the last one - two out of four instead of one out of four. The first story, which I was meh about, set in medieval times, is about a ditzy novice fairy godmother who actually turns out to have been playing a fairly good game of reverse psychology. The second, set in Victorian Vermont, centers on the various meanings of "spectacle" - both the type that help you see clearly, and the type that asses make of themselves. I thought the hero's surname being "Goodman" was a bit on the nose, but otherwise I really liked this one. Story three, in Victorian Washington, is about a destitute, pregnant widow-and-mother-of-two who sort of bullies her way into a job as a housekeeper, and of course ends up with the gent. The story also contains more than just slight hints of angelic intervention. I liked this one two. And the last story, about two of Santa's craftsmen (humans, not elves or yeti), was painful to read. I've never been fond of the simultaneous mutual love-and-loathing thing.
Verdict: If you like romances and it's cheap, it's worth picking up.
And now that it's starting to cool down a bit, off I go to change into work clothes and much about in the garden.
