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nightdog_barks1) Got out today and did stuff. This week is early voting for our state's Democratic candidate runoff for governor, so I went and voted. As I suspected, turnout looks like it is going to be incredibly light. The two Democrats in the runoff, Andrew White and Lupe Valdez, have barely been campaigning as far as I can see. Maybe whoever gets the nom will be more visible in November.
2) Also went to Calloway's and bought two geraniums (a sort of purplish-blue?) and two salvia (blue). They had bright red salvia and blue salvia, and there were bees all over the blue salvia, so I went with blue. I want to try and fill our backyard with color this summer. If I can keep stuff alive in the heat. :-P
3) I finished Ben Aaronovitch's Whispers Under Ground and loved it; I've already ordered the next book in the series (Broken Homes). There was some confusion, I thought, between the actual story and the description on the back of my Ballantine Books paperback edition ...
Blurb from the back of the book:
At least he won't be alone. No, the FBI has sent over a crack agent to help. She's young, ambitious, beautiful ... and a born-again Christian apt to view any magic as the work of the devil. Oh yeah -- that's going to go well.
The ONLY mention of the FBI agent's religion in the book:
Nightingale reported that Agent Reynolds had been invited home by an evangelical family at the embassy for much the same experience, only with more cranberries and hopefully fewer arguments.
That's on page 290 of a 303-page book. That's it. I wondered if the UK edition was somehow different than my U.S. edition, so I went to Amazon UK and used the "Look Inside" function to search for a few keywords in the Gollancz edition, such as "Devil," "Jesus," and "Bible." Aside from devilled kidneys and a few exclamations of Jesus Christ! ... nothing.
So ... that was weird. And it wasn't just me -- at least two people on Goodreads noticed it too. Oh well.
2) Also went to Calloway's and bought two geraniums (a sort of purplish-blue?) and two salvia (blue). They had bright red salvia and blue salvia, and there were bees all over the blue salvia, so I went with blue. I want to try and fill our backyard with color this summer. If I can keep stuff alive in the heat. :-P
3) I finished Ben Aaronovitch's Whispers Under Ground and loved it; I've already ordered the next book in the series (Broken Homes). There was some confusion, I thought, between the actual story and the description on the back of my Ballantine Books paperback edition ...
Blurb from the back of the book:
The ONLY mention of the FBI agent's religion in the book:
That's on page 290 of a 303-page book. That's it. I wondered if the UK edition was somehow different than my U.S. edition, so I went to Amazon UK and used the "Look Inside" function to search for a few keywords in the Gollancz edition, such as "Devil," "Jesus," and "Bible." Aside from devilled kidneys and a few exclamations of Jesus Christ! ... nothing.
So ... that was weird. And it wasn't just me -- at least two people on Goodreads noticed it too. Oh well.