Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Attracted to Opposites

See this lady?  Badass.  I should love her.  Tough, fit, redhead, with an interest in outdoorsy fun.

I also interacted with her on her social media, and it turns out she's a total 2A or Die, Qanon, they stole the election, anti-vax... well, I have thoughts.


Guns, rural life, fitness, cowboy asethetic- things that draw me to the genre also draw people that are the polar opposite of me in so many ways.  

BTW, if these picture are you and you want them down, just let me know and I'll delete the post.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Quickshots: The Second Glass of Absinthe

 


I usually like short novels, but this one could have used a few hundred more pages.  In this self-described “A Mystery of the Victorian West“ we get, in no particular order:

·       Murder mystery

·       Helena Blavatsky

·       Spiritualism

·       Tarot

·       Bisexuality

·       Incest

·       Labor unrest

·       Violent union strikes

·       Class warfare

·       Mining politics

·       Drug-induced hallucinations

Oh, and one of the main characters is a white woman who lived with the Cheyenne for years in a prior book and is readapting to white society with her new husband.  The book is good, well researched, well written, but it’s a lot to absorb in a little over 300 pages.

Fun fact- the title comes from the eminently quotable Oscar Wilde: "After the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they were. After the second you see them as they are not.”