Sunday

[nightdog_barks]

Warm and humid after more rain yesterday. Very blah, blah, and blah because I haven't been sleeping well at all. I'm fairly sure it's the anastrozole, so ... at least there's that?

Finished Kate Atkinson's Life After Life and really liked it, although it left me a little sad. It's a book I'd love to see filmed -- if they could do Cloud Atlas then anything is possible.

Started Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists last night -- it is a slow start but otherwise good.

Had to put up tomato fencing and stakes for the tomato plants. Some of them are four feet tall. O_o

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[taiga13]

That sounds like an interesting book!
We had an extraordinary amount of rain on Friday, but today is lovely and sunny. I went on a short hike in the foothills. There was still patches of snow there because the rain fell as snow at the higher elevations.

[nightdog_barks]

The Garden of Evening Mists? It is good, but it starts really REALLY slowly, and it's one of those books you could just say "Well, this is boring," and set it aside. But the reviewers on Amazon said it picks up the further you get into it, so I'm hoping they're right.

I heard it snowed in some parts of the UK this weekend! What crazy weather.

[taiga13]

Oh I hadn't looked at The Garden of Evening Mists, I meant Life After Life.

[nightdog_barks]

LOL! Yep, Life After Life is VERY good, although there was at least one time where I was a little lost after Atkinson took a really sideways narrative leap and I wasn't sure where I was. She brings the WWII London Blitz to vivid life, and I thought she did a much better job than Connie Willis in her most recent ... duology. Yes, spellcheck, that's a word. :D

Anyway, I liked it, and Atkinson is brilliant for keeping all those juggling balls in the air, but it still made me kind of sad. I don't know if I'd want to be Ursula Todd, living and living and living until I "got it right."

[namaste]

My friend who is far more knowledgeable on tomatoes than I am recommends pruning back the plants if they start getting too big and scraggly. That way the plants put more energy into bearing fruit than growing.

I'm currently between book (I've got a fall back, the non-fiction "Salt" that I've been going through, which I take up again between books). But I've got thenext reservation on Emma Donohue's "Astray" at the library.

[nightdog_barks]

So far the tomatoes are just chugging along and producing flowers and flower buds. I'm keeping the little between-the-stem-and-the-branch suckers pruned, though. The tomatilloes have quite a few pretty little yellow flowers, but they're more of a mystery to us because it's the first time we've grown them.

I've seen Astray advertised in a lot of places. I'm usually not a big short-story reader, but I might give this one a try. You'll have to let me know what you think. :D