PeSuit and Tie

  books of the week this week in my solo book club, i'm still engulfed in  tajna krvavog  mosta . i have such an urge to visit the croatian capital, zagreb , because most of the book is set there, in actual neighborhoods of it. my plan is to do a zagorka  tour next time i visit. the book is huge, and i'll be sharing more bits about it. so far, we're trying to solve a murder mystery, and possibly one of the first mentions of cross-dressing and drag in croatian literature. how hasn't hollywood, or at least the creators of downton abbey or bridgeton get their hands on this series?  movies of the week so far, just reruns of mentalist  for sib and i as the evenings get cooler.  we watched  rosaline (2022) , a hulu-produced period rom-cam depicting romeo and juliet, from cousins rosaline's point of view.  the film had strong  bridgerton  influence mostly in music, and race-bending characters. i was positively surprised by the freshness of...

  the start of the school year literally wiped away the heat of summer, so suddenly. summer arrives loudly, brightly and feels obnoxious sometimes. but it leaves and never gives you notice. truthfully, we still have a whole month of technical summer time, but this week i admit i'm liking the feeling of fall.  fall is my favorite season, but i feel so guilty at the beginning of it (or at the end of summer), because here in ohio we only get a sliver of true summer. or perhaps i was spoiled by my youth in dalmatia, where we had mostly summer and painful heat. boyfriend let me borrow his macbook, so it's been a bit easier instead of bouncing between library work hours, my own schedule, and sib's laptop with no storage. thank you boyfriend! on monday i dyed my hair back to copper, and had a proper therapy sesh with bestie morg, my hair stylist and wonderful friend. did i accidentally dye away the last blonde remnants of summer as well? oops.  friday i had an end of summer team...