Hi Lesley, hope you’re having a good month with all your company. Thanks for stopping by as I’m sure you’re busy at the Cove. We are wannabe farmers, LoL. We are starting to get a lot from our vegetable garden, particularly zucchinis, potatoes, and tomatoes. But we are having to water quite a bit.
Yellowface gets pretty crazy, so see what you think. I don’t think it has stayed with me, but it was sort of fun in a snarky way at the time. I did enjoy Go as a River on audio, though it was sort of women’s lit for me.
Stella will get her stitches out this week, and she seems to be back to herself. We have mostly taken the cone off ! Happy reading for August.

Poor Stella. I’ll bet she’ll be happy to get rid of the cone-of-shame.

I haven’t seen either movie, but I hope to once they hit the streaming platforms. With Covid on the rise again, and our community is pretty much filled with tourists right now, I have no desire to venture into a movie theater.

I’m looking forward to trying Yellowface, which has been gathering a lot of praise. I wonder if Rod would enjoy it, too, since it deals with writing and publishing.

I read Go as a River earlier this year and liked it, but from the sounds of it, not quite as much as you.

Thanks Jane. Stella is doing well post-surgery and we’ve taken the cone off after a week. She’s okay.
Glad your kids saw the double feature! How fun. We are going to try to get into Oppenheimer tonight but it might sell out. We will see.
Too bad about Go As a River. I understand if you didn’t like it. I listened to it as an audio so maybe I had a different experience. I liked it mostly for the story and wasn’t caught up in the writing as much … I guess since I was just listening while I was gardening. I would like to visit that area of Colorado — Gunnison area. Maybe hike from Aspen over to Crested Butte then head on to Gunnison. That would be awesome. Happy August to you.

My kids did the Oppenheimer in the morning and Barbie in the afternoon, and thought both were excellent. I haven’t seen either, but am intrigued by both.

I picked up Go As a River from the library a week or so ago and was totally jazzed to read it (novels set in CO are not all that common). Sadly I barely made it to page 50–I had heard so much about the fabulous writing but I just couldn’t read it. For me, there were just to many similes. Nothing was just as it was–his hair was black as a wet crow, or something like that–his smile was like a ray of sunshine peaking through the clouds. In a way it felt like it had been wrung out of so many writing workshops and critique groups. I am probably being totally unfair, but I was disappointed in not finding a great read. Just my two cents for what it’s worth.

Happy August reading!

Hi Camen: Ps. I forgot to say … that this first year the hay bales might go to our neighbor down the street who baled the hay … for us. He has some livestock to feed. But we might be able to make a little $ too. We’ll see. thanks.

Thanks Deb. I’m a wannabe farmer. ha. If in a couple years, I convince my husband for us to add two donkeys to our back field, then I will feel I’m more of a real farmer. It’s sort of my dream to have some real livestock …. but still much work to be done before that happens.
Enjoy your travels & week.

Thanks Dorothy. Stella is bouncing back from her surgery and should be without the cone next week.
Yellowface gets pretty crazy so I wonder a bit what others will think of it. It seems pretty cleverly done to me. And I’m thinking the young author RF Kuang will have an exciting career ahead of her. See what you think.

Poor, poor Stella.

And look at you—a farmer!