Are you kidding? The best thing about the pandemic is videoconferencing giving you a glimpse into people’s houses. I’m a design freak and I’m also fascinated by how different people live and decorate their homes, or don’t decorate their homes. I am loving this.

I’ve been thinking about Jerry-Netherland lately.  Hope he’s okay.

I rewatched Confessions of a Shopaholic again recently (don’t judge) and would agree. I forgot how fun she is.

HARD PASS as well. There is no way Nicole Kidman’s face can make Lucille Ball expressions. Not now with the botox, but also not EVER.

You know, whenever I misplace something, the first thing I think is “I’ll run outside and attack the first Black person I see”.

It was heartbreaking.

When I watched the interview with Keyon Harrold Sr and Kat Rodriguez, my heart really went out to them when Rodriguez was talking about the trauma to their son caused by this awful woman.

What's the point of being engaged for seven years?

Yeah- it depends on what the relationship was like around then. Were they definitely separated or did she get more distance when she met Styles? Even if she wanted out, waiting until someone else better comes along is a coward’s move. It also depends what the deal is with the fact they got engaged but never married-…

Frankenstein interests me because I’m currently we reading the mabinogion. It’s a collection of Welsh medieval (and maybe earlier) myths. One of the myths deals with gwydion, who is very dr Frankenstein. His sister, arianrhod, gives birth to a child and a ‘something’. He takes the something and puts in in a chest, and…

My ex dumped me, and I got with a longtime guy friend/my now-husband a month later. My husband was just waiting for me to be single, and he had nothing to do with our split.

This is a really eclectic reading community, and it’s good to see.

Damn straight--although it also was kind of necessary for Mary Shelley to amp up her “grieving widow” image after he died.  She was left with almost no money, and got a pittance from Percy’s father to support her son.  She was making a living as a writer in a more conservative era, so she had a material interest in…

I had a fun time Tenant being timely. I was teaching that book in a class while my father (abusive alcoholic, with whom I reconciled) was dying. My students balked at the idea that Helen would go back to Arthur and nurse him through his death. Most of them thought that there was no way a woman would do that—even while…

I’m not sure—I don’t have kindle. But you can get it on Project Gutenberg.

She didn’t get bad boy appeal.

I loved in the preface she wrote about how rereading the book flooded her with memories “...many a drive, and many a walk, and many a conversation” of Shelley. They weren’t just a Scandalous Couple--they had a connection of intellect and feeling. 

Me too! I added it to my Halloween rereads a few years ago and each time through pays off in new ways.

I love Tenant! It was so far ahead of its time, and yet so of its moment, in speaking the truth about living with and loving an addicted person.

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