Ah, husbands and the things they say. So I have an erotic romance menage book sitting around that I won't name due to it being a contest book, but my husband was flipping through it and noticed the phrase "testing the tensile strength of the condom" (due to the force of his ejaculation).
As my husband informed me, if anyone should find that hot, it should be an engineer (which he is) and he most assuredly does not.
Seriously, "tensile strength"?
Wow, been a long time.
Oops, I last blogged in October!
Had a rough night last night as L decided to wake up multiple times in the night. It was easy to put her back down each time, but I don't do well with fragmented sleep. She's currently watching Yo Gabba Gabba on the iPad. Why that show I do not know. She's never wanted to watch it before.
I've been doing pretty good in the reading department so far this year. I challenged myself on Goodreads to read 175 books this year. It was around 150 last year. So far I've read 15, so that's pretty good start to the year. Now actually saying something profound about them, who knows?
L is growing like a weed and starting to get attitude. But the moments of cuteness make me forget just how much they work me up. Supermom, I am not. But I still do love being home with her despite everything.
Had a rough night last night as L decided to wake up multiple times in the night. It was easy to put her back down each time, but I don't do well with fragmented sleep. She's currently watching Yo Gabba Gabba on the iPad. Why that show I do not know. She's never wanted to watch it before.
I've been doing pretty good in the reading department so far this year. I challenged myself on Goodreads to read 175 books this year. It was around 150 last year. So far I've read 15, so that's pretty good start to the year. Now actually saying something profound about them, who knows?
L is growing like a weed and starting to get attitude. But the moments of cuteness make me forget just how much they work me up. Supermom, I am not. But I still do love being home with her despite everything.
Ironskin by Tina Connolly
So freakin’ disappointed in this one. I don’t even think it was the hype, which made it out to be steampunkish and so unique. It’s more of a fantasy/alternate history where WWI was fought with the fey. It’s unique all right, but all the fantastic elements fall apart in the end. It’s so very obviously a Jane Eyre-inspired piece which I didn’t know it was going to be going into the story. I loved Jane Eyre and the romance in that book, but in Ironskin, the romance between Jane and Edward makes no sense. They spend no time together and Jane deciding she loved him seems to come out of nowhere.
The world was interesting, but the more I think about it, the more it kinda falls apart. Honestly, when the book was over, I felt more empathy for the fey than the humans. I’m fairly certain I won’t be picking up future books in the series. A creative world that falls apart upon inspection just doesn’t do it for me when there’s not even a good romance and interesting characters to prop it up.
Ironskin by Tina Connolly. A big fat dud.
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