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Dec. 30th, 2014 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljBloody hell, the temperature dropped into the Arctic levels! For us anyway. it was about -10 today with a wind chill "feels like" of about -21 and it certainly did feel it. I only popped out to the corner shop for milk and bread and eeeeek! Was going to go to the library tomorrow with Mom and her friend and we were all going by bus but Mom absolutely hates the cold and backed out. I guess I'll spend tomorrow inside again. I don't fancy going anywhere having to wait for busses in the chill.
Graham and I have new Year's Eve together online. We each have some wine so will probably open it and have a glass or two. He usually manages to see in my New Year which is 4 a.m. his time. Astonishing considering he will be up at 6 to work tomorrow. I don't think I could do it. We would love to be together next year but we've decided to expect that we won't be, one more year and if it does happen, it will be a nice surprise. I guess if we had got married in September when he was here, next Christmas would have been likely but we wanted to have a proper wedding, something to really remember after waiting all these years.
Have been listening to BBC Radio 4, to the production of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens. Great stuff! I'll probably finish the last few parts tomorrow.
And to finish off the year....
94 - Police - Jo Nesbo
Another Harry Hole book. Seems Harry survived that last book, this time someone is killing police officers at the scenes of crimes that they were involved in previously. Murders and crimes that were not solved. Maybe someone has a grudge? It wasn't who I thought it was but I'm usually not very good figuring these things out.
95 - Orange is the New Black - Piper Kerman
I watched the two series from Netflix and really enjoyed it, months after everyone else had cottoned on to it being a good show. Typical of me. I thought Id read the book. Not as impressed. Seems to be a lot less emotional and arms' length than you might think.
96 - The Nazi Officer's Wife - Edith Hahn Beer
The description is misleading. She's only an officer's wife for a few months near the end of the war, after her husband joins up and is recruited for officer training. He then goes east to the Russian front and is taken prisoner just before the end of the war. Edith is Jewish and manages to fake her identity and stay under the radar through most of the war, though, and it's interesting to hear what life was like in Austria and Germany in the 30s and 40s for someone from a group of people that the Nazis were determined to wipe out and damn near did it, too.
97 - The Reckoning - Sharon Kay Penman
The third in the Welsh Princes trilogy. The last of the Welsh Princes, Llewllyn ap Gruffydd who went head to head with Edward I, also known, after the conquering of Wales, as the Hammer of the Scots though that's after the events of this book.
98 - Season of Storms - Susannah Kearsley
An actress, Celia, who has the same name as a famed actress from the stage in the 1930s is asked to perform in a play in an Italian villa, a play written by the admirer/lover of the original Celia. This story tells of her experiences with the owner of the villa and the fellow actors, stage manager and director who is a surrogate father to her. I like Kearsley's books and this was as good as any of the others.
And so that's my year in books. I try to set a goal for 90 and can usually meet it. I have several books on the go at the same time, reading the one that i'm in the mood for on any given day unless one has really gripped me and then I mainly stick with that until that one's done.
Graham and I have new Year's Eve together online. We each have some wine so will probably open it and have a glass or two. He usually manages to see in my New Year which is 4 a.m. his time. Astonishing considering he will be up at 6 to work tomorrow. I don't think I could do it. We would love to be together next year but we've decided to expect that we won't be, one more year and if it does happen, it will be a nice surprise. I guess if we had got married in September when he was here, next Christmas would have been likely but we wanted to have a proper wedding, something to really remember after waiting all these years.
Have been listening to BBC Radio 4, to the production of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens. Great stuff! I'll probably finish the last few parts tomorrow.
And to finish off the year....
94 - Police - Jo Nesbo
Another Harry Hole book. Seems Harry survived that last book, this time someone is killing police officers at the scenes of crimes that they were involved in previously. Murders and crimes that were not solved. Maybe someone has a grudge? It wasn't who I thought it was but I'm usually not very good figuring these things out.
95 - Orange is the New Black - Piper Kerman
I watched the two series from Netflix and really enjoyed it, months after everyone else had cottoned on to it being a good show. Typical of me. I thought Id read the book. Not as impressed. Seems to be a lot less emotional and arms' length than you might think.
96 - The Nazi Officer's Wife - Edith Hahn Beer
The description is misleading. She's only an officer's wife for a few months near the end of the war, after her husband joins up and is recruited for officer training. He then goes east to the Russian front and is taken prisoner just before the end of the war. Edith is Jewish and manages to fake her identity and stay under the radar through most of the war, though, and it's interesting to hear what life was like in Austria and Germany in the 30s and 40s for someone from a group of people that the Nazis were determined to wipe out and damn near did it, too.
97 - The Reckoning - Sharon Kay Penman
The third in the Welsh Princes trilogy. The last of the Welsh Princes, Llewllyn ap Gruffydd who went head to head with Edward I, also known, after the conquering of Wales, as the Hammer of the Scots though that's after the events of this book.
98 - Season of Storms - Susannah Kearsley
An actress, Celia, who has the same name as a famed actress from the stage in the 1930s is asked to perform in a play in an Italian villa, a play written by the admirer/lover of the original Celia. This story tells of her experiences with the owner of the villa and the fellow actors, stage manager and director who is a surrogate father to her. I like Kearsley's books and this was as good as any of the others.
And so that's my year in books. I try to set a goal for 90 and can usually meet it. I have several books on the go at the same time, reading the one that i'm in the mood for on any given day unless one has really gripped me and then I mainly stick with that until that one's done.
