The Anchorage, Part 3

[Satira Capriccio]

This is definitely a day I wish I could go back to sleep. Or snuggle up on the couch under a blanket with my kindle.

But noooo ... I have to go out in the snow. Supposedly, it's only going to be an inch or two, and my phone claims it's above freezing now. But gosh. Any amount of snow falling means STAY OFF THE ROADS to me!


Good news though, my eye looks MUCH better and it's definitely not an infection. Just dry eyes. Even better ... I don't have to go back for six months. Whew! $40 a visit was pinching my wallet! What with three visits in seven days!

 

[Lorraine]

Oh Satira, I wish you could stay under the covers too! But good news about your eyes, that's great

 

[Terre]

Satira, that is great news.
Going to be a day to relax and do laundry here.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Thanks. ANd yes. It sure is.

It was nice yesterday lounging around the house with Tsuki. She snuggled with me most of the day, so that was cool. I fell asleep too early though and woke up about 3:30 am. Unfortunately, I was awake too long what with needing to plug in my cell phone (I charge it overnight) and the kindle, that she decided it was time to play. Well, actually, it was time to attack the cell phone/kindle cords. She leaves all other cords alone ... except those two. Then she gets upset with me because I won't let her chew those cords. So we have a huge battle over those cords with me trying to distract her with her toys.

I swear .. she's in the terrible twos!

 

[Miss B]

~hee, hee, hee~ Sounds that way, but how can you not say "Awwww soooo cuuuute!" Of course, if she were chewing on one of her toys, that would be so much better than electrical chords.

Good to hear your eye's doing better, and it's not an infection.

 

[Pendraia]

Hey Miss B, Terre

Yes, there's a limit to what I can do when it's pitching down, Miss B. Can't use the computer as I have a mast step leak directly over my desk chair, and using my DVD player uses too much battery on a day like this when the solar panel is not charging much. But there are always books, both digital and paper and I've decided to go with the latter this arvo and read an old Georgette Heyer, the Grand Sophy, my very favourite of her books.

I love Georgette Heyer...I have read and reread all of her books. I prefer her Regency and Detective novels to her more historically correct books. She has such a wonderful sense of humor.
I just read the last JD Robb book Brotherhood in Death and it's a real tear jerker...was a fantastic read. I like authors who can make me laugh and tug on my emotions. I also love author's like Mercedes Lackey and Anne McCaffrey...I tend to be very eclectic in what I read and happily read most genres but the author has to make her characters breath...I also like Elizabeth Hunter and Deborah Harkness...just finished her 3rd book in the Discovery of witches Series...really great stuff.

This is definitely a day I wish I could go back to sleep. Or snuggle up on the couch under a blanket with my kindle.

But noooo ... I have to go out in the snow. Supposedly, it's only going to be an inch or two, and my phone claims it's above freezing now. But gosh. Any amount of snow falling means STAY OFF THE ROADS to me!


Good news though, my eye looks MUCH better and it's definitely not an infection. Just dry eyes. Even better ... I don't have to go back for six months. Whew! $40 a visit was pinching my wallet! What with three visits in seven days!

Glad to hear that your eye is better Satira...stay safe when driving.

@Llola Lane , I thought that might be the case with the chat room I'd heard that elsewhere and couldn't remember seeing a chat room at the new forum.

 

[Miss B]

I also love author's like Mercedes Lackey and Anne McCaffrey.

OMG, how could I have forgotten Anne McCaffrey. A friend turned me on to her Pern series years ago, and actually sent them all to me to read. I don't think I've enjoyed a series more. Just enough Sci-Fi with a mixture of Fantasy.

 

[Pendraia]

Yep...fantastic books. Her son is continuing the series but it's not the same it has a slightly different flavour to the books.

 

[Lorraine]

This might make you smile, Pen. The 40 some year old copy of the Grand Sophy that I read in bits.

 

[Lorraine]

I love Anne McCaffrey's books. She is my fave sci-fi/fantasy author.

Mercedes Lackey has also become a favourite of mine. Her Valdemar series is really good. David Eddings is brill and has two series, one about Belgarion, one about Sparhawk, both fab.

An urban fantasy author I discovered a couple of years ago, Ben Aaronovitch, writes about a police constable in London who becomes an apprentice wizard. Superb writing and wonderful descriptions of London environs including its lost rivers.

 

[Pendraia]

Yes....David Eddings is another favourite author at least his earlier stuff like the Belgariad and the Sparhawk stuff. I haven't see the Ben Aaronovitch stuff...I'll have to check it out. Jim Butcher's Dresden series is also awesome...

@Lorraine, that front cover looks mighty familiar! I don't think mine is falling apart quite as much. I was lucky as a few years back my sister in law passed on to me her collection which was in better nick then mine. She didn't want them to deteriorate as she lives in Cairns and they have a problem with books going mouldy...

 

[Lorraine]

I have had to be really careful on the boat with my Heyer books not to lose them to the damp. Lost a lot of others to internal downpours (wooden boats = leaks ) but none of them.

I'm with you on the Eddings books. None of what he/they produced after the two series was worth a grain of salt.

Another author you might like is Robin McKinley. She wrote a couple of books about the land of Damar, the Blue Sword and the Hero and the Crown which I adored and lost in a pile of rot. Haven't been able to get them on Kindle so will need to find paperbacks again.

 

[Miss B]

Jim Butcher's Dresden series is also awesome.

Oh, you just took the words right out of my mouth!! That is one absolutely fabulous series. I've read all of them, and enjoyed them a lot.

If you like pure fantasy books, Jim Butcher also wrote another series called the Codex Alera that I absolutely loved, though some of the "characters" in the books weren't humanoid, and very weird, but the man DEFINITELY knows how to write a story that keeps you interested.

 

[Lorraine]

I'm part way through the Dresden series. Must get back to it.

Oh and I'm also part way through the JD Robbs 'In Death' series, Pen, which I also must get back to.

 

[Pendraia]

I have had to be really careful on the boat with my Heyer books not to lose them to the damp. Lost a lot of others to internal downpours (wooden boats = leaks ) but none of them.

nothing worse than losing good books...some of them are so hard to buy second hand.

I'm with you on the Eddings books. None of what he/they produced after the two series was worth a grain of salt.

I think the initial series was mainly him and his wife only had a tiny bit of input but once her name was on the books they seemed to go downhill they became really serious and lost the humor (or at least that's what I thought).

Another author you might like is Robin McKinley. She wrote a couple of books about the land of Damar, the Blue Sword and the Hero and the Crown which I adored and lost in a pile of rot. Haven't been able to get them on Kindle so will need to find paperbacks again.

The name sounds familiar but I couldn't find any of her books on our shelves. I'll have to have a look for them. I ordered a sample of Rivers of London for the Kindle so I will check that out.

Oh, you just took the words right out of my mouth!! That is one absolutely fabulous series. I've read all of them, and enjoyed them a lot.

If you like pure fantasy books, Jim Butcher also wrote another series called the Codex Alera that I absolutely loved, though some of the "characters" in the books weren't humanoid, and very weird, but the man DEFINITELY knows how to write a story that keeps you interested.

I loved the tv series of the Dresden Files and found the books through the series but love the books also which is very rare...when we went to Minotaur Books recently we looked at this The Aeronaut’s Windlass (#1) but ended up not getting it as we had already spent too much. I'm eagerly waiting on Peace Talks to be released.

I'm part way through the Dresden series. Must get back to it.

Oh and I'm also part way through the JD Robbs 'In Death' series, Pen, which I also must get back to.

I have all of them Lorraine plus most of her more recent books as Norah Roberts. More recently I have them on kindle it's cheaper that way and I was running out of space. I still remember buying her Mills and Boon books but she has sure come a long way since then. So many of her more recent ones that I love but I still have a fondness for Chesapeake Bay series and the 3 sisters trilogy to mention just two.

 

[Lorraine]

Oooo, the Aeronauts' Windlass looks really good! I love steampunk so it's now on my wishlist, thanks for the link!

My aunt down in Auckland owns everything Nora Roberts has written, including all of the JD Robbs...and that is a LOT of books. I'm slowly working my way through them

So much for the Grand Sophy, she's been put in the heap to finish later as I've started reading a McKinley book, Beauty, instead, a take on the Beauty and the Beast fairytale.

 

[Lorraine]

Hope you like Rivers of London, Pen, I fell in love with PC Grant in the first chapter.

 

[Miss B]

I loved the tv series of the Dresden Files and found the books through the series but love the books also which is very rare.

Ahhhh, I read the books first. I have the TV series in my Netflix queue, so I'll eventually see them. For whatever reason, the network that was showing them here, didn't finish showing them all, probably because they weren't getting a good enough viewership, and advertisers won't pay for shows that aren't doing well, because then they're products aren't seen.

 

[Pendraia]

It never went past a first season...which I thought a shame, but there are some major differences between the show and the books.

 

[Miss B]

Yes, well I couldn't see them filming, even on a cable network, some of the Fae stuff, especially when the 3 courts got into it with each other.