Monthly Review (June 2010)

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So June was pretty interesting. I think I started off fairly strong, and then quickly fell into procrastination. I also somehow checked out around 30 library books, most of which are still unread– and that simply won’t do. I’ve decided to bring most of them back to the (university) library tomorrow, keeping only those from the public library (they have a shorter due date so I’ll be forced to read them quicker) and the ones I got through inter-library loan (they’re due at the end of the month anyway). I think not having a big stack of library books looming at me will be a good thing, and maybe I’ll even go back to my TBR books like I meant to!

Next Tuesday is the first day of my summer class, and while it looks somewhat fun (it’s British Fiction: Humor) I’m dreading keeping up with the reading. Luckily all the books seem to be short; it’s just the large amount of essays on top of them that I’m worried about.

I’ll talk more about my class on Sunday for the salon, including the reading list!

Reading Stats
17 total books read
20 total books reviewed (5 of June’s books)
0 ebooks
1 audiobooks
16 pbooks

13 were by authors new to me
0 were rereads!
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Thursday Tea Thursday Tea is a weekly meme hosted by yours truly. To play along, all you need is some tea, a book, and the answers to these questions: what tea are you drinking (and do you like it)? What book are you reading (and do you like it)? Tell us a little about your tea and your book, and whether or not the two go together.

The book: I’m about halfway through The Veiled Detective by David Stuart Davies, which is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that supposed Watson is not really Watson and he’s under the employ of Moriarty throughout the Watson-Holmes relationship. It’s an interesting idea, but I was expecting it to be more emotional, because Watson DOES like Holmes and doesn’t like Moriarty and wants to be out from under his thumb. And so I was expecting some sort of “woe I am betraying my best friend” thing– but then, they’ve only just started being friends in the part I’m at so maybe the angst will come later.

(I do like me some Watson angst, I must say. Also when he and Holmes are all “you’re so awesome and I love you being your friend and solving mysteries and let’s go out and KICK ASS TOGETHER.” :D The 2009 movie? LOVE IT.)

The tea: I’ve found my packet of blood orange tea from Stash Tea, but I think it’s gotten weaker since the last time I’ve used it because it doesn’t taste the same now as it did a year ago when I first bought it. Dang.

Do they go together? Well, I specifically drank blood orange tea today because of the murder-mystery-Holmes book, and so they go together in that way. But I can’t recall anyone in the book actually drinking tea themselves, which is weird because in the original series don’t Holmes and Watson drink tea, like, every other page?!

What are you drinking/reading this Thursday?

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