\#WhatchaReading ? I just finished Seeing Blind by Poppy Dale, a very sweet, sort of "shop around the corner" romance which is my catnip. Part epistol
\#WhatchaReading ? I just finished Seeing Blind by Poppy Dale, a very sweet, sort of "shop around the corner" romance which is my catnip. Part epistol
#WhatchaReading ? I just finished Seeing Blind by Poppy Dale, a very sweet, sort of "shop around the corner" romance which is my catnip. Part epistolary, which is also my catnip. Kisses only. Kiss only, really. 😁
One character has prosopagnosia, which is a significant disability for him. Can't say if it's an accurate portrayal but it was very interesting.
Slightly disconcerting that it's set in Manhattan and CA but the author is quite obviously British. 😁
@willaful maybe I will look that up. As someone with face blindness, I'd like to see how it's portrayed. But then, it seems kind of variable, too. My experience seems much milder than, for example, what Oliver Sacks described in some of his interviews of sometimes not even recognizing himself in a mirror.
@pretensesoup @willaful Katherine Center's latest ("Hello Stranger") leans hard on prosopagnosia for the plot, but apparently Center did a good bit of research to back it up. (Also kisses only, which is not usually my preference, but I like Center's books too much to mind.) @romancelandia @romancebooks
@willaful @romancelandia @romancebooks I'm reading/listening to The Family You Make by Jill Shalvis, hoping to finish before #HoHoHoRAT2023 ends tomorrow. It's exactly what I enjoy with Shalvis, easy, with just enough depth. And even though it's not Christmas, the winter scene fits the mood.
@willaful In print, doing a re-read (30+ years later) of James Clavell's Asian Saga, triggered by a comment from someone on another forum. Expecting the books to be horrifically racist, and indeed the characters are, but the books are more just... about people who are various grades of awful. Listening to Elle Kennedy's latest, "The Graham Effect", which, if you like that sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you would like. Very on-brand for Kennedy. @romancelandia @romancebooks
@willaful I have friends who are scientists who said they couldn't enjoy e.g. Ali Hazelwood's "Love Hypothesis" because the way the science is portrayed kept knocking them out of the story. So far I've been able to get along with the fictional universities in these college hockey series, like Kennedy's invented Briar U, but for some reason in this book I feel like there are more holes in the scenery than usual.
@notTheAudience I remember being very annoyed by a Hazelwood book in which an environmental scientist justified her purchases because "duh, recycling!" I.E. the author doesn't know wtf she's talking about.
@willaful Briar is supposed to be "Ivy" but then Yale - one of the most recognizable Ivy League schools - "isn't in their conference." The courses of study and the fraternity-centric campus culture also aligns more with big state universities than typical Ivy atmosphere; it often feels more like a Southern football school inexplicably plonked into New England. One game description alternates the opponent between Northeastern and Northwestern.
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@willaful Reading a short cozy mystery, involving finding a precious antiquity in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay. Not terribly impressed so far, I'm sorry to say.