Happy New Year! I hope the final stretch of 2022 was good to you. I’m emerging from a mostly delicious holiday cocoon, somewhat irritated that it’s time to get back to waking up to alarms and doing work and being generally responsible for things, but mostly ready for it.
I did the same after coming home from clearing out my mother's apartment. No ability to concentrate yet. Just wrung out after the end of decades and decades of managing a beloved but unmanageble alcoholic parent. Caught up on like 3 seasons of Call the Midwife, which I thought had ended years ago. The perfect thing. Hard things happened but everyone tried their best to be good.
And now, back to work, and to having to get up in the dark!
glad you got a good, restful break. I've always loved the Walt Longmire mysteries (I prefer the books) by Craig Johnson, for much the same reason: it isn't too gory and it doesn't hit close to home, despite my partner having a part-time home in Johnson county, the fictional Absaroka county in the books. That said, the early seasons of the Longmire series are terrific for escapist viewing. Hope the new year is a good one!
Sounds like a terrific break, Cari! I had a similar one and binge-read four Ruth Ware books (my first time reading her). If you haven’t read her yet, you might want to give her a try. Her books remind me of Agatha Christie’s but contemporary. I binged Christie when I was a kid like you. The most enjoyable of the four Ware books for me were The Woman in Cabin Ten and The It Girl. The Lying Game was good but seemed a tad slow and the characters in In a Dark, Dark Wood just irritated me too much. But I kept reading and I have the rest of her books on hold at my library 😊
I did the same after coming home from clearing out my mother's apartment. No ability to concentrate yet. Just wrung out after the end of decades and decades of managing a beloved but unmanageble alcoholic parent. Caught up on like 3 seasons of Call the Midwife, which I thought had ended years ago. The perfect thing. Hard things happened but everyone tried their best to be good.
And now, back to work, and to having to get up in the dark!
glad you got a good, restful break. I've always loved the Walt Longmire mysteries (I prefer the books) by Craig Johnson, for much the same reason: it isn't too gory and it doesn't hit close to home, despite my partner having a part-time home in Johnson county, the fictional Absaroka county in the books. That said, the early seasons of the Longmire series are terrific for escapist viewing. Hope the new year is a good one!
Sounds like a terrific break, Cari! I had a similar one and binge-read four Ruth Ware books (my first time reading her). If you haven’t read her yet, you might want to give her a try. Her books remind me of Agatha Christie’s but contemporary. I binged Christie when I was a kid like you. The most enjoyable of the four Ware books for me were The Woman in Cabin Ten and The It Girl. The Lying Game was good but seemed a tad slow and the characters in In a Dark, Dark Wood just irritated me too much. But I kept reading and I have the rest of her books on hold at my library 😊