surprise! it's the mafia

recent read was the last thing he told me by laura dave. a woman and her stepdaughter go on a ~search for answers~ after their husband/father disappears. is he responsible for white collar crime? did he abduct his daughter? is he in witsec? who knows! (the answer is none of these things.) it's a trashy white lady living room thriller and i knew that when i picked it up and read it anyway. the most distracting thing in this book is not its fascination with carpentry (or "woodturning"?), not the so totally bland main character, not even the totally out of left field resolution to the plot (that does, per the title, involve the mafia. Can You Believe a forty year old suburban furniture maker walks into the mansion of a mob lawyer and walks away unscathed and with what she wants because I Can't.).... no. the most distracting thing in this book is its total inability to tolerate present progressive contractions. there is no such thing as "he's" or "i'm" it's always "he is" or "i am". i genuinely became concerned that i was reading an AI book for a second there at the beginning and had to google some things. the editor also left out some commas in places that weren't, like, totally necessary to understand the meaning of the sentence, but it was just annoying. 

btw, i keep meaning to write up a post about my experience at the big choir contest in july, and i just had another big choir day today too, so maybe i'll find the time to sit down and type that up soon. no promises. 

anyway speaking of the mafia i'm smack in the middle of the baroque works/alabasta arc in one piece. luffy's brother is kinda hot and i don't know how i feel about that... this anime thing is so funny because i get cognitive dissonance whenever i think about the fact that i'm actually enjoying it and am watching it For Me and not for the person i'm TOTALLY not holding out for, cmon guys im DEFINITELY being well adjusted and realistic about that whole situation, PROMISE. because like, it's anime. it's not even that it's anime it's that it's CARTOONS. i explained to my roommate that the show is equivalent to like idk phineas and ferb and she was like "ohhhh that makes so much sense" (she catches bits and pieces of it when i watch in the living room and she has another close friend who's very into it).