Reading Pet Peeve

The other night I was reading A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, which I do not recommend by the way.  I wasn't too jazzed about the book, but I figured I might as while finish it so I could find out how it all ended.  Sometimes if I don't finish a book or movie I find myself wondering six months later what happened to the characters (this especially happens to me with Lifetime movies which I never seem to finish). 

So I kept plugging away at the book.  It was 585 pages long, but it was a quick read, nothing too brain stretching.  At about page 500 I realized there was no way the author could wrap everything up in the next 85 pages.  She just kept adding more stuff with clearly no intention of resolving a single thing before ending the book.  I was steamed.  The only reason I kept reading the book in the first place was so I could see what happened and then get on with my life.  Now what am I supposed to do?  The sequel apparently comes out in July, but I don't really feel like reading it since I didn't like the first book.  So six months from now I will probably be driving or taking a shower and suddenly wonder what happened to those people.  Arrgh.

I think books that start off a series should have some kind of disclaimer on the cover.

Emily and Socks 2

This kid is hilarious.  If I didn't already have her Christmas present I would get her leg warmers.  The only problem is now she always wants to pull my socks off.

Emily Wearing my Socks

I was playing with Emily the other night and put my socks on her just for fun.  For some reason Emily actually liked wearing my socks and even came back to me to pull them back up when they started slipping off.  I've seen those baby leg warmers for sale before, but always figured babies wouldn't like them.  Who knew?

The Witch on my Door is Actually Scary

So I am sitting here watching TV.  It's been getting dark early and I've been watching scary Halloween movies lately.  Did I mention I'm watching a show about zombies?  So in between the weird zombie noises and gunshots on TV, I keep hearing what sounds like someone twisting my doorknob.  The first time I just ignore it because sometimes the little kid across the hall will ring my doorbell or try to open my door.  I think he gets confused about which side his house is on.  But then it keeps happening.  So I turn the TV off and I'm sitting there waiting to see if the doorknob turns.  I go up to the door to look through the peephole and see if I can see someone out there.  But my porch light doesn't work so it's all black out there.  And then while I'm looking through the peephole it happens again.  But because I was so close to the door this time I can tell it isn't the doorknob being turned.  It's that stupid witch scraping on the door in the wind.  It gets really gusty at my place because we are so close to the lake.  I think I will be taking the witch off the door tonight if I can work up the nerve to open the door and get it down.

Bad witch.  I managed to bring her inside.