Bridgette > Recent Status Updates

Taking forever to listen to because I keep falling asleep to the audiobook, and then have to figure out how far back to rewind. Pretty good so far though.

Meh... getting more and more political.

Gave up on the audiobook because, while I like Carey Mulligan as an actress, I do NOT care for her as a narrator. Too much stupid whispering and lower-than-anyone-can-hear characters. Moved on to read the paperback.
... except now I'm frustrated with all the apostrophes instead of actual quotation marks! What's up with that?
Story itself is interesting so far...

Might have to switch to the actual book instead of audio because of Carey Mulligan's narration. I like her as an actress, and her reading is technically good, but it's a bit too breathy for me. Getting annoying. Unfortunately, this means getting back on the wait list at the library for an ebook or hard copy.

Finding good info and lots of tips about essential oils and how they could help me manage long COVID, dysautonomia, nervous system regulation, and the list goes on...

One glaringly erroneous issue, though, is that since this book is published by doTerra, who promote quite a few EOs (thankfully not all) can safely be ingested (albeit at a drop or 2) without any consequences or interactions. Unsafe with certain meds!

Good start, not at all what I was envisioning it to be, but my dysautonomia is making it pretty hard to focus. Reading (or listening) to other books for now.

Hmm... Majorly repetitive in the first couple of chapters. Then the story picks up, which is nice, but also feels like reading Tolkien, vignette-style and all, which I don't enjoy.
Put it aside for now to read other things.

Grrrr... Ramses is an utterly annoying child. "Dat" and "de" are not words for "that" and "the."

Grrrr... one frustrating recurring MASSIVE French faux pas... the utterly incorrect phrase "n'est pas?" (pronounced 'nay paw' in the audiobook, which literally means "is not?") instead of the CORRECT phrase "n'est ce pas?" (pronounced 'ness paw') to indicate "is it/that not so?" as in rhetorically asking for agreement to a previous statement.

Story is moving quite slowly compared to the last two books.

End of ch.5 ••• Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap.

Love it, love it, love it. Thank you Jehovah!

Absolutely loving it so far... love the language, just descriptive enough. Not so much description that you're saying "get on with it", but just enough that you can see clearly in your mind's eye all the wonderful details.