A Thankful Thursday post

[annathepiper]

To steal a concept from technoshaman, I'd like to do another post about some things that don't suck.

• I have finally been able to find a copy of Shannon K. Butcher's new novel No Regrets. For the benefit of my listening audience, Shannon Butcher is jimbutcher's spouse, and I am looking greatly forward to discovering whether she writes as well as her husband. Between Jim and Shannon, I have fantasy and romantic suspense covered. All my book-reading needs in one husband/wife writing team!
  
  
• I have also finally started reading Robin McKinley's Sunshine, which has been sitting neglected Too Damned Long on my To Read Shelf. I am about 100 pages in thus far, and enjoying it quite a bit. More to come on this when I finish the book.
  
  
• Speaking of more authors I greatly enjoy, naominovik announces here that the fourth Temeraire novel now has an official title and release date: Empire of Ivory, due out in October of this year. Elves say "YES PLEASE, I'll have some!"
  
  
• I have been feeling light-years better since I have started actually enforcing my two-sodas-a-day limit. Quite a bit of background tension has dropped out of my system, and while my sleep isn't quite back to normal yet, it's getting there.
  
  
• Going to see The Painted Veil with mamishka this past weekend turned out to be very pleasant indeed, especially as she followed it up with the DVD of The Illusionist, so we had an Edward Norton double feature. I hadn't seen The Illusionist yet, and I found it quite fun. Especially after The Painted Veil, which was a fine film, even though it was terribly, terribly grim. Meems also gave me belated birthday presents: the DVD of Eddie Izzard's Glorious show (to wit, YAY! And, I'm covered in BEEEEEEEEES!), and for particular giggles and grins, a toybox that contained both this and this. I am still laughing and laughing every time I look at them both.
  
  
• Speaking of mamishka, I look forward to joining up with her and others this Saturday to see Pan's Labyrinth, of which I have heard many good things.
  
  
• Last night we watched The Maltese Falcon again, which is chock full of goodness as well as the sterling lesson of how you just do not mess with Humphrey Bogart. Under any circumstances.
  
  
• The Young Dubliners are about to put out a new album, With All Due Respect: The Irish Sessions. Looking forward to this!
  
  
• Last but not least, tomorrow is FRIDAY!

Saturday through Thursday miles: 17.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1747.5
Miles out of Rauros Falls: 438.5
Miles to Isengard: 45.4

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Anybody who picks up Thankful Thursday from me does so with my blessing (and a bit of pride). It ain't stealing if you're giving it away...

I have been feeling light-years better since I have started actually enforcing my two-sodas-a-day limit. Quite a bit of background tension has dropped out of my system, and while my sleep isn't quite back to normal yet, it's getting there.

We shall convert you away from the Dark Side yet. :)

Sharon Butcher, eh? hmmmmm.....

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Shannon Butcher. :)

[annathepiper]

*grin* Why thank you.

And heh, I have been amused that I've actually been considering dropping down to one can of soda. I actually waffled about whether I wanted the second one yesterday. We'll have to see how any diet Dew in the house treats me over the weekend.

And as Kit mentions below, yep, it's Shannon Butcher. ;) She's got a link off Jim's site to her own, though if you go to hers directly you have to remember to specify shannonkbutcher.com since shannonbutcher.com is a site for a jazz singer.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. As for messing with Bogey, the story was told that Bogey and Bacall and Edward G. Robinson were in a bar one time, and a fight broke out. Bogey and Robinson weren't nearly as tough as they were on-screen, and dived under the table for cover. After a few minutes, Robinson asks, "Where's Bacall?" (They never called her Lauren.) Bogey quips, "Oh, she'll be all right." When the dust settled, it turned out that our heroine had personally decked a couple of the participants, and was none the worse for wear.

It's Bacall you don't want to mess with. Ever.

[annathepiper]

Woot! Go Lauren Bacall! ;)

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

Report back on Sharon Butcher, please! I like my romantic suspense. Do you read Julie Garwood?

Also, the Maltese Falcon is on of my favorite movies. I can watch it and rewatch it. *squee*

[annathepiper]

Shannon Butcher. And fear not, there will definitely be a book review post once I finish her book. :)

(She does have a web site up but you need to remember to include the k in shannonkbutcher.com--shannonbutcher.com apparently takes you to a site for a jazz singer chick. Or, if it's easier to remember, you can click on the Shannon link on jim-butcher.com.)

I haven't read Garwood but was aware of her as a romance author--I didn't know she's also written romantic suspense. Is she fun?

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of her straight up romances, but I love her suspense novels. There's a whole series all centered around the men in one family.

[annathepiper]

HrmRmm, duly noted. :) Maybe I'll check her out. Thanks for the tip!

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

She writes GREAT sex.

[annathepiper]

*laugh!* So noted. I'm tough to impress with a sex scene, so I'll let you know if she works for me. ;)

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

Ahh, The Illusionist was indeed fun. And is it sad that the moment I saw 'mrpotatohead' in the links that I knew exactly what they linked to?

[annathepiper]

*snicker* It ain't like it's a tough guess for anyone who knows what a big Star Wars geek I am.

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

Egggggzactly.

[kieri.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Eddie Izzard is delightful as always - I should really pick up his stuff on DVD, since I first bought it on VHS back in ze day.

Yay for Temeraire! Excellent. I look forward to it muchly.

And Sunshine is very enjoyable indeed. Unfortunately, the author is apparently 1) a slow writer and 2) not sure she wants to write a sequel. It is sadness -- but hmm, I should reread it. For some reason that book always makes me want to bake cinnamon rolls.

And a very happy belated birthday! :)

[annathepiper]

Glorious is really rather aptly named, isn't it? ;) I love it almost as much as I love Dress to Kill.

And yeah, Robin McKinley is one of those who really ought to write faster. I'm about 120 pages into Sunshine so far, and indeed, desperately craving a good cinnamon roll.

And thank you! :)

[raise-a-jar.livejournal.com]

I remember really liking Sunshine and hoping there would be a sequel coming out soon. Since then, of course, my bookstore trips have dropped drastically, so I have no clue if or when there may be one. I do recall the ending leaving me vaguely unsettled, though I can't really remember why...

[annathepiper]

There certainly isn't one yet, and I daresay one is not likely. But then, Robin McKinley lets out with a new book so seldom that it's anybody's guess, really. I looked at her site and it hasn't been updated since the book came out.