Monday, June 27, 2016

Monday Musings

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The aptly named rainbow shower tree, the official tree of Honolulu!

Highlight of the week: Our kitty cat, Lily, finally made it to Hawaii! She spent the last month with her grandparents in Colorado and she flew out to Oahu on Thursday. What a trooper; I'm sure the day of plane rides was utterly miserable, but she survived. She's a resilient, well-traveled Air Force cat!

Reading: I finished my advanced-reading copy of "Age of Myth," which comes out this Tuesday. It's the first in a new 5-book fantasy saga and, though it took me a while to get oriented to the setting and all the characters, I really enjoyed it in the end. (Review to come on Thursday!) Then I read "The Last One" by Alexandra Oliva, another ARC, which releases in July. It's sort of a genre-blending thriller, part apocalypse, part reality show, part outdoor survival, part character study. It wasn't the best book I've read this year, but it was pretty good! And on Saturday night I started "Written in Red" by Anne Bishop, the first book in the urban fantasy series The Others, which I've been meaning to read for ages!


Knitting: I made some more progress on my Cap Sleeve Lattice Top this week. You can see a progress photo on my Yarn Along post here.

Watching: We finished our binge watch of season 1 of "Mr. Robot." What a fascinating show! It's about a cyber security expert turned vigilante hacker who also happens to have schizophrenia. We also watched "Deadpool," finally, and it was pretty good; it made me laugh out loud several times. Definitely an adult super-hero movie! We finally got our DirecTV hooked up on Thursday and we've got all the movie channels free for three months. That means we can catch up on this season's "Game of Thrones"! (We watched the first two episodes this weekend.)

Listening to: I finally checked out the "Hamiliton" soundtrack and I can see what all the fuss is about. I'm not a huge fan of musicals, but this score is unique, original and modern.


Drinking: I had a terrible day on Thursday so I treated myself to a boba tea. Yum! One thing I did miss about Hawaii is that there are as many boba drink shops as Starbucks (probably more)!

Looking forward to: The movers are delivering our household goods on Friday! It will have been three months since we've seen our stuff and I am SO ready to sleep in my own bed again! Just a couple more nights!

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I'm linking up with Kathryn at Book Date for It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

8 comments:

  1. I bet you will be happy to see your own things again. I also bet you don't keep that many books. When we moved a lot, it was the books that were the hardest to tote around.

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    1. Oh, I have been counting the days! It's going to be like Christmas!

      You're right, books are crazy heavy and sometimes awkward, but the military pays for professional movers so it's not a huge problem for us. But moving so often provides the perfect opportunity for sorting and purging, and I always seem to clean out my shelves a bit. Right before we left Ohio I took a stack of books to the used bookstore -- and managed to only leave with one new purchase! ;)

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  2. Glad Lily is finally home. I absolutely love that Anne Bishop series - it's one of my favorites of all time. Hope you enjoy it as well. There are so many interesting characters and I have wanted a weather pony ever since!

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    1. A weather pony?! I haven't gotten that far yet, though "ponies" have been alluded to. I'm a little less than 50 pages in but I can tell I'm going to love it!

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  3. I have loved all the books in the Others series by Anne Bishop. I just discovered the series last summer but am now caught up and eagerly awaiting the next book. Come see what I read last week. Happy reading!

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    1. I have a feeling I'll be binge-reading the rest of the series this year too! I never would have picked it up based on the cover, so I'm glad the blogosphere introduced it to me!

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  4. The Last One is on my list. Happy Reading!

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  5. I haven't checked out Hamilton yet, but I need to hear what all the fuss is about!

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