reading wednesday
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boxofdelightsHard day yesterday. I was driving to the dentist when white smoke started pouring from the vents and I saw that the temperature gauge was at its limit. Fortunately I had a lot of extra time, since I had four other errands I meant to do since I was using the car. Also fortunately, my son was home, with his car, so he could pick me up and get me to the dentist.
But then I had to live through the dentist grinding down my chipped front tooth, and the other teeth where my bite was too "heavy", and then the places that became too heavy after she had lightened my bite somewhere else. And leaning on my jaw and telling me to "Tap tap tap. Now tap hard. Now grind together. Now grind back and forth. Now all the way forward," to find new places to "adjust". And then leaning on my upper jaw with the same instructions. When she finally let me go, it still felt like my lower front tooth was banging the upper in a place it could never reach before, but I guess I thought I would get used to it.
I'm not used to it.
• What are you reading?
Jade City, by Fonda Lee, for SF book group.
• What did you recently finish reading?
The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal. I liked it, but I was reading it to give to my younger niece, and nope, the sex is just a bit too much. Which is so silly! I don't think young teens shouldn't read any sex scenes. If she picked it up and asked if I thought she'd like it, I would say yes and tell her everything I thought she'd like about it. But for me to give to her, nope, it's just a little bit too explicit.
She'll still like it in a few years, probably.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Radium Girls, for Tawanda book group.
• What are you watching?
The Magnificent Ambersons,
The Wife,
The Jane Austen Book Club,
Gosford Park,
The Fifth Element.
And I'm in season two of Stranger Things.
But then I had to live through the dentist grinding down my chipped front tooth, and the other teeth where my bite was too "heavy", and then the places that became too heavy after she had lightened my bite somewhere else. And leaning on my jaw and telling me to "Tap tap tap. Now tap hard. Now grind together. Now grind back and forth. Now all the way forward," to find new places to "adjust". And then leaning on my upper jaw with the same instructions. When she finally let me go, it still felt like my lower front tooth was banging the upper in a place it could never reach before, but I guess I thought I would get used to it.
I'm not used to it.
• What are you reading?
Jade City, by Fonda Lee, for SF book group.
• What did you recently finish reading?
The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal. I liked it, but I was reading it to give to my younger niece, and nope, the sex is just a bit too much. Which is so silly! I don't think young teens shouldn't read any sex scenes. If she picked it up and asked if I thought she'd like it, I would say yes and tell her everything I thought she'd like about it. But for me to give to her, nope, it's just a little bit too explicit.
She'll still like it in a few years, probably.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Radium Girls, for Tawanda book group.
• What are you watching?
The Magnificent Ambersons,
The Wife,
The Jane Austen Book Club,
Gosford Park,
The Fifth Element.
And I'm in season two of Stranger Things.
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Date: 2019-08-02 07:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-02 11:50 am (UTC)+100
Date: 2019-08-02 05:18 pm (UTC)Is the niece issue about how her parent(s) would react to her getting the sexy stuff?
(At that age I was reading _Story of O) which in hindsight wasn't good for me.)
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Date: 2019-08-02 07:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-04 09:55 pm (UTC)