Monday.
I started The 100 Day Project yesterday. I made a necklace.
The items were from this month's Bargain Bead Box. I wanted something simple and wearable every day kind of thing.
Currently re-reading AND ONLY TO DECEIVE by Tasha Alexander. 1st of 16 in series featuring Lady Emily Ashton, a young widow in Victorian London.
For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly. His journals reveal him to have been a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who, to her surprise, was deeply in love with his wife. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and she immerses herself in all things ancient and begins to study Greek. Emily's intellectual pursuits and her desire to learn more about Philip take her to the quiet corridors of the British Museum, one of her husband's favorite places. There, amid priceless ancient statues, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries. And to complicate matters, she's juggling two very prominent and wealthy suitors, one of whose intentions may go beyond the marrying kind. As she sets out to solve the crime, her search leads to more surprises about Philip and causes her to question the role in Victorian society to which she, as a woman, is relegated.
Published 2005; 336 pages. I'm doing a lot of re-reading lately. I dunno. Good books and I've forgotten the details, I guess. I think I paused in reading this series around book seven or eight. We'll give it another go.
Also reading HOSTILE TAKEOVER by Susan Shwartz. Stand alone scifi.
CC Williams is a financial analyst who's on the fast track of life and is determined to stay there. She clawed her way out of the hell of the powerless underclass and keeps herself grimly focused, with nightmares of either being frozen into a shipsicle and sent to the Outer Rim or dying slowly as the authorities harvest her limbs and other body part to pay off the massive debts she accrued getting where she is. When the multi-planetary company she works for sends CC to audit the far flung Vesta Colony to learn why assets keep hemorrhaging away, she knows this is her big chance to make the Ultimate Career Move and be finally free. Vesta turns out to be unlike anything CC has ever seen and the deeper she delves, the more twisted things get until her life--not to mention her career--hangs in the balance. CC finds herself confronting not just insider trading and fraud, but attempted murder as well. Who's at fault? She's got a colony of suspects, including old friends, old rivals, and a dashing EarthServ pilot who knows a whole lot more about CC and her world than he's letting on. Will CC find out in time--or will the takeover she fears turn not just hostile but deadly?
Published 2004; 368 pages. Reading this actually in paperback.
Tonight we have Street Outlaws to view while having dinner. I need to do my Day Two creativity. It may be a quick pair of earrings. It may be just organizing the beads for the tapestry project that are starting to arrive in the mail.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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