Updates

 I don't really know what else to say or call this other than an updates post lmao

Anyway! Welcome in, take a seat. I'll getcha a cup of tea~( c•ﻌ•ↄ 

 

Painting Update

     So, as per my last post, I am slowly slogging away through my gift to my boyfriend. I always forget that the hardest part to keep up with this type of project is continuing even when I get down into the weeds and nitty gritty details. I think it's because I love both those large decisive lines from the beginning of projects just as much as I love the itty bitty details, and finding a good balance between them is so very very hard.

 

I can share it here because he doesn't know I'm doing this blog thing yet

 

 

    The mushrooms and other foreground details are the bane of my existence and I really only have until Friday if I want this to be a birthday gift for him. Ah well. We'll see!

 

Reading Updates

Death in the Clouds 

    I am really really flying through Death in the Clouds. I was not sure what to expect when I started, mainly because I've never really been much of a mystery person. Or at least not in the "seek out the genre" way. But I've always wanted to read an Agatha Christie novel and had an inkling I would like her writing and that turns out to be a very big yes. 

 

     

    And by pure coincidence, it also just happens to be the one featured in Doctor Who! Which is so very fun to me because it is my absolute favorite show and finding this book at the thrift store feels like one of those "the universe moves in strange ways" moments.

 

The Taming of the Shrew

    Second on my reading updates is the very slloooww progress I've made towards reading The Taming of the Shrew. It doesn't help that it's my before work read. I keep it in my car and read it if I have few minutes before I have to go clock in. It ALSO doesn't help I'm kind of a freak completionist and feel I have to read forwards and introductions and all those types of things. At least the opening essay in this copy of the play is somewhat interesting and the voice of the writer is hilarious;

  "What was Shakespeare--sorry, Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam--really saying..."

 

    Anyway you get my point! Incredible! But so far much of it is refuting the idea that Shakespeare was anything besides just the one guy. And some of the theories, especially from the 1800s, really do just amount to "yeah, they were kinda doing a lot of classism at the time. So it makes sense that they'd think a poorer man with no background in education couldn't write some plays!"   

 

 

 

 Well I do believe that is all I have for you today! Thanks for reading! 

 

Currently Reading:

⭒Death in the Clouds, Agatha Christie

⭒The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare

⭒But is it art?, Cynthia Freeland

⭒Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (on a bit of a break for fear of heartbreak) 

⭒Wicked, Gregory Maguire (yet to start, but found an old bookmark and apparently 17 yr old me got pretty far)