jmc_bks

I'd say like a hummingbird, but I'm not that graceful. More like a bumblebee, buzzing around clumsily.

I haven't been able to settle on anything all weekend. Sit down, read a few pages, get bored. Turn on the TV, channel surf, get bored. Wander round the book store, nothing interesting, bored, leave with nothing new.

Caught a couple of minutes of the BBC show/miniseries The State Within. Jason Isaacs, mrowr! Armitage = Halliburton, SecDef Warner = Cheney/Rumsfeld combo? Note to producers and dialogue coaches: the proper (American) pronunciation of certiorari is not cer-tee-oh-rahr-ee, but cer-sher-or-ee, with the second "r" almost silent, or so I was taught in school. A check of the dictionary pronunciation key would've caught this -- both the ones I checked have the "ti" making a "sh" sound. :shrug: The British pronunciation may be different....but the word was spoken by an American character.

Skimmed MJD's Sleeping with the Fishes. In the intro, she mentions that she scrapped the first version because it was Betsy with fins. And this second version isn't? One note wonder, IMO.

Two DNFs: J.M. Jeffries' A Dangerous Love and Darrien Lee's Talk to the Hand. The heroine in the Lee book was a skanky, cheating, stupid hypocrite (pissed that she caught her bf cheating; but when she cheated, she made sure he didn't find out and she didn't get caught because she loved him so much. WTF?! They why are you cheating?) and the hero was a spineless wuss. I lasted a bit longer in the Jeffries book, but ultimately put it down because the hero and heroine's relationship was utterly inappropriate and unprofessional. Plus I kept noticing serious copy edit errors.