BlackberryJam

Tropes are for the fanfiction I read. Take two characters I already love and put them in a faking dating, single bed situation and I AM DOWN for that. The tropes aren’t fun unless I care about the characters first. I particularly like book series because the characters do get developed. Or should get developed. Not gonna lie, I read some books just to have something to read that doesn’t require much mental effort. And allows me to escape reality for a while. Right now, I’m reading the latest Tessa Wegert book in the Shana Merchant series. They are…fine. I guess. Too much serial killer nonsense, but they don’t require me to think or care too much. I can read the book, let it take up my time and then forget it later.

She definitely milked the family for more books than they were worth. However, I miss the days of curling up with a good romance novel and losing myself. I feel like the book market, at least what gets advertised to me, is over saturated with women-in-peril and domestic thrillers. I am sick of women-in-peril stories.

I don’t care about Teresa. I have never cared about Teresa. I never will care about Teresa. Every time someone says Teresa all I hear is McGuffin.

@LBC Me I took Russian/Soviet Lit in college. It took me decades to shake off that gloom. Sofia Petrovna is a novella and sort of the female version of Ivan Denisovich. @scarynikki12Sing it. I mean, all those novels have problematic elements, but I could never like James. I also felt like Lindsay liked him far too much. Ugh. It's been a long time since I read those books, but it seems to be time to revisit.

@grommit2 I enjoyed The Women as well. @GHScorpiosRule I also loved the Malory books. Except James. James was a dick. Don’t rename women with male names because you think it’s cute, asshole. James can fuck right off. I was always team Anthony. And YES to a young Pierce Brosnan. I recently finished The Briar Club which had an interesting twist. I can’t decide if the twist added to the book or didn’t. I enjoyed the multiple POVs. Also just finished The Goddess of Warsaw and I’m struggling to describe why it left me cold. If it had just been a revenge story, I would have liked it better, or if it had just been about the main character’s time in the Warsaw Ghetto during WW2. But… The book also skipped pretty much from 1950s to the early 2000s where we got …nothing. Just nothing. I feel like an interesting story left me uninterested. Anyone else? In other fun news, I thoroughly enjoyed Kills Well With Others the sequel to Killers of a Certain Age. Give me a team of female assassins in their 60s and I’m down. I have the latest Finlay Donovan queued up and I’m hoping for a third in the Suburban Dicks series. But I really need some lightness, so the Malory books might be on tap. Except James. He’s a dick. ;)

Sounds completely skippable. Voit is so trite and boring.

So my guess is:

So was that Serena during the halftime show? Some sites are saying yes.

Drake had a very weird “friendship” with Millie Bobby Brown when she was 13.

Every sport is in it to make money. Without the ad money, they can’t pay the players. So I’m fine with the ads. I mean, I might change the channel or fastforward, but I’m not going to complain that the ads exist. I might complain about their quality though. So…did someone resurrect Drake after the Grammy’s so he can get re-murdered?

I haven’t stepped in a Hobby Lobby in a decade, for good reason. Give me all the Caitlin Clark! Are we really getting health care ads celebrating the execs?

So…I’m joining late. What is the design on the Super Bow logo? The Glen Powelll truck ad is silly and not good.

The use of DM in that ad pained me. Also…I’ve decided to root for the Eagles, because why not?

I don’t think our heroes are turning into monsters. I think monsters are very good at pretending to be heroes.

You might be my spirit animal. I don't mind the Chiefs, but I'd like to see someone else win this year. The Commanders as an FU to Dan Snyder, the Eagles because why not and the Bills to finally screw over the Cigarette Smoking Man.