Question – why OH, FUCKING WHY is the closest tome trafficker all the way down in Braintree, one ENTIRE town south. Cry for me brothers and sistahs – this is a motherfucking tragedy. Rilly!
*Ahem*
What’d I pick up?
A Murder of Magpies – Judith Flanders
When Samantha Clair agreed to publish journalist Kit Lovell’s tell-all book on the death of fashion designer Rodrigo Alemán, she could scarcely have imagined the dangers ahead. (source)What sold me was Donna Leon’s blurb – Deadly funny.
Mash Up, an anthology
Pride and Prejudice meets Macbeth by way of The Wizard of Oz and a dollop of the speculative, in this entertaining anthology where authors get inspiration for short stories from the first lines of famous works of literature.A) LOVE the concept (which promises at least a quart and a half of hilarity per read)!
B) There’s a John Scalzi story in here!
Dr. DOA – Simon Green
The name is Drood, Eddie Drood, also known as Shaman Bond. My family has been safeguarding humanity for generations, facing the hidden horrors of the world so you can sleep at night and remain oblivious to the existence of the monstrous nightmares that walk and stalk among us.I’ve read others in this series. They’re witty, weird and def keep me buried in the pages.
Escapism-wise, I'm all set now. Thanks.
And, speaking of fiction...
Mebbe it’s just me but it seems that every time one of the vicious Republican repeal and replace, so called healthcare bills gets shot down, they come back with something even more devastatingly rapacious and cruel. Their proposals claim to be about giving us taxpayers something better than the ACA but they’re really all about erasing Obama’s brill achievement AND putting the insurance companies back in the bill-us-into-early-graves seat.The Rude Pundit picks apart and points out the insanity, the inhumanity of the Graham-Cassidy (AKA Lynch Obamacare) bill. Please, go read. Just FYI, those of us with pesky preexisting conditions (such as my delightful neurofibromatosis type 2 –Nf2) are gonna be financially roasted until we welcome death. Yeah, the Orange Menace lies AGAIN. Shocking, no?
As long as I’m talkin’ ‘bout health shit, now that I’m an older babe, certain embarrassing things, on occasion, happen – like all of a sudden having to pee RIGHT THAT VERY MINUTE. Turns out, this shit’s got a name, Overactive Bladder and sharecare.com has a “helpful” sponsored post up on Shoutyface. 9 Foods and Drinks to Avoid for a Better Bladder
They tell me to avoid citrus, tomatoes, coffee AND tea, chocolate, spicy food, soda, alcohol (what? NO wine!!!???), sweeteners. Also, avoid too much—or too little—water.
‘the fuck am I supposed to eat and drink? This list is ridiculous. The only two things on the here that are hey, no prob are soda and sweeteners. How about I just make sure I hit the head more often than when I was 30 and check in with my PCP, hmmmmm?
Who writes this shit?
"Tome trafficker" -- that's good. I'm stealing that. I guess I'm luckier than you location-wise, though -- the local library is less than three miles away.
ReplyDeleteOne way to look at the health-care wars is that the Republicans can only hope for stealth victories now, because we've won the actual debate. They have to claim their bill keeps pre-existing-condition coverage, for example, even though it actually doesn't. They have to deny or minimize the number of people who would lose insurance. The fundamental point -- that people are entitled to coverage and that the government at least has a role in guaranteeing it -- has pretty much become part of the national consensus.
Even if the bad guys win, they lose. Millions of rural white voters would lose their insurance and some fraction of them would figure out that the ACA repeal caused that, and reconsider how they vote.
Gonna' get everything they deserve.
DeleteThe bad guys damn well better lose this round. That and I hope to hell, at the midterms, the Left comes out in blinding, focused voting force. Each heinously egregious bill they bring forth makes it more and more transparent that the "right" doesn't give a shit about us AND, like their Dear Leader, they're nothing more than lying sacks of cow manure.
DeleteOOOF – I'm steaming!