My new mocha

[susandennis]

I just dumped one of the Nestle's hot chocolate packets into my second cup of coffee. Ok. That works just fine, thankyouverymuch! That's the kind of discovery I would usually make at the very end of cold weather. My timing is getting better in my old age. Finally.

And speaking of timing... A month or so ago, I got a PopupPetdoor for Biggie so that I could close the door to the terrace when it got cold but still give him access. He uses it about 4876 times a day. In and out and in and out. It works great and still gives me ample room to get through the door.

But what am I going to do next Summer when I need to vent the air conditioner out the same space? This is not at all something I need to worry about any time soon but I keep worrying about it anyway. I think maybe I might cut a hole in the pop up door in the section over Biggie's flap door and just stick the hose through it. Maybe. I need to stop obsessing over this.

In the past few years, I have grown more fond of thriller type mystery books. I particularly like the Jack Reachers of the world. Lone guy, few to no ties to other humans, out getting into messes and getting out of them. Or detectives detecting. I'm not a fan of my protagonists having loving relationships or families. But my major pet peeve is when an author uses a child as a plot device. Then they turn their characters into super heros to save the child. It's a cliche older than I am by far and it's lame and cheap and tiresome.

I'm now 7 hours into a 12 hour book that I was not particularly loving but that still had some promise when, this morning, while I was on the treadmill, the bad guy threatened the child of one of the protagonists. Nope. Done. It's a new to me author that I really wanted to like because he already has lots of books published. But, no. We're done. Brett Battles. Buh bye. Also Scott Brick, as a narrator, manufactures drama. I need to quit selecting books read by him.

Fortunately, I have the next book checked out and downloaded and ready.

Nothing hot on the docket today (ooops... watching too much Law and Order). Just the usual which is fine.

Comments

[xina-g.livejournal.com]

I love doing that. An easy peasy Mocha *yum*

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

So wish we could manipulate Overdrive to block some, ensure we don't recheck out others, point to what I really should read next.. . you know, think for me.

No Brett Battles. Got it.

[dadi.livejournal.com]

I so so agree with this about the crime stuff. Jack Reacher is perfect. Hatty Bosch would be sans that stupid daughter.

[susandennis]

Yeah Harry teeters on that line, for sure but I still love him.

New Jack Reacher out in FOUR days!

[dadi.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeessss

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Tasha doesn't like Scott Brick either. Funny how these people keep getting work.

[susandennis]

He is wildly popular except with Tasha, me and my brother.... we are the only three people in the universe with high standards, I guess.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Do you have any favourites? Tasha likes Lorelei King and Kate Reading.

Personally, I won't read catjep but I don't care if they have families. However, I do hate ones where the serial killer starts going after the detective themselves. Particularly when the detective has a dark secret of their own which threatens to surface blah blah blah.

[susandennis]

I really don't have favorites. But if I had to name one it would be Paul Nugent. He read Witch Elm. The plot was amazing but his voice was maybe even better. I do hate multiple narrators on the same book. I want one. Period. I'll settle for two but I will pass on a book that has more.

There is no cliche worse than a plot cliche.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

The pet door looks interesting.

Yeah, I don't like when they bring kids into things, either.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

The office I worked at for many years had a Mr. Coffee-type coffee maker, and along with the tea bags also had Swiss Miss hot chocolate powder. I found the Swiss Miss in hot water to be fairly blah, and the coffee was pretty terrible by my lofty standards, but I eventually discovered that putting the cocoa powder in the coffee produced a drinkable potion. (This was before I got to the point of realizing that I was old enough to need to avoid coffee later than breakfast time.)

[becomingkate.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I make a half coffee, half hot chocolate drink in my Keurig. So good!