Summer Reading

Loving Seattle and having the family back from vacation. They're a lot of fun to be around. Callie is amazed that I know music that she likes. "What, you think I live in a hole?" I keep asking her. Sheesh.

A few days ago, I finished reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Very interesting. I really enjoyed it, except that certain narrative practices got on my nerves after awhile. It's told primarily in flashbacks, which is fine, but the use of phrases such as, "But I'll get to that later" and similar became a bit over-used and started to cause some eye-rolling on my part. Other than that, though, the premise was different and ultimately kind of sad.

Then I read Richard Stevenson's Third Man Out. It's the second Donald Strachey mystery I've read and I liked it a lot more than the first one, Death Trick. Donald was closer to the Donald in the movies, I felt, than before and I like movie Donald so much more. Most of that has to do with the way Timmy gets treated. I like them being in a mutually monogamous relationship as opposed to Timothy being faithful and Donald being, well, not. There was more of that here, with allusions to the past, so that made me happy.

I also liked how fast it read, how engaging and funny it was. I'll have to read Ice Blues (which I think actually comes before this one) when I get home.

There's a picture of their movie selves on the cover of the book and now I really want to watch the movie again. They're just too adorable.

NCIS Prompt Drabble

This is for ginnith. I asked for her to prompt me and the result is a very loose interpretation of her desire for something "blustery and electric" in that "air before a storm" kind of way. It made me think of anticipation.

( Tim knows. )