Rilla-my-Rilla

Oh Sandra Brown! I can't believe I forgot her. That was a good episode too. I haven't read Sandra Brown in years, but I still have some older books by her, including an 80s category Erin St. Claire that used to be my grandmother's.

So this is a bit off topic and I don't know if you listen to podcasts, but the Fated Mates podcast has been doing an interview series called Trailblazers. Today's episode is an interview with Nora Roberts. It has some pretty good Nora quotes in it. They've done other Trailblazer episodes with people like Beverly Jenkins and Jayne Ann Krentz.

Haha, point taken. Oh, totally aware of Lee Min Ho before Pachinko. I've watched several of his dramas. Screen presence 😁

It's been a minute since I've read the book but I had it in my head that Hansu was in his 30s and decently good looking. I don't know if that's right though.

There are Kdramas in every genre, so many variations. I don't watch a lot of mystery ones myself, but one I would recommend that I've seen is Healer.

Yes, it's called Films To Be Buried With

All I could think of was "I'm not serving Mary Berry green carpet!!" from back in the day.

She calls Kate a singed daffodil actually and calls herself an overripe citrus fruit. I think the show made Lady Whistledown meaner. She saved her harsh stuff for bullies and mean people. It's a point in the books that she's nicer to nice people and the Bridgertons were always nice to her. Penelope calls them her champions at one point.

I work in medical research, currently with kidney stones, and patients do get a say now. Even a stone surgically removed (basically medical waste like you said) can't be used without permission. We have to get consent to study the stone and tell them what we plan to do with it. We also ask a separate permission for tissue banking and future experiments that we may think of. But we aren't going to make billions of dollars off patients like in the HeLa situation. A patient can revoke their consent at any time. We would just stop using their sample from that time forward. Studies, consents, and protocols go through committee reviews and audits. If someone or an institution is found to be misusing patients or their samples, labs can be shut down or even all clinical research at a certain institution. Tl;dr: We have to get a multi-page consent signed to be able to just see what a kidney stone is composed of (consent for actual medical waste) I don't think a similar situation like HeLa could happen now (making billions from using something without permission) Someone and/or some place would get sued for some of that money I'm guessing and places shut down.

Whew! That is a lot. Pretty sure I never read that one of hers though. I kept to her historical romances which I'm sure have their own special cringe factors.

Which one? I'm just curious because I used to read a lot of her books when I was younger. I wonder what my kid brain used to skip over too.

Young Ian returns and they tell him about time travel in book 5 (Jemmy breaking the opal or is it an emerald in the book? Either way happens about the time when they tell Young Ian). He just doesn't return until the mostly the end of the book. After the snakebite and all. Forbes is still running around in book 6. Also, the tar and feathering isn't really talked about until book 6. Jamie is holding people off to try and save someone the crowd wants to tar.

I think you're thinking of Marsali's 4th pregnancy which unless they really change things doesn't happen until the 6th book. She's on her 3rd pregnancy now in show (I believe). His explanation for his actions is basically an extraordinary worry for what kind of life and future his child can have.

Fergus really doesn't have much going on in book 5.

Yeah the hanging and snake bite are this book. The hanging does come before the bite. The snake bite comes up kind of late in the book. But I'm guessing this could be the hanging episode too.