I live, December version

So the great Tumblr shenanigans have sent us all back here. Good. I've never posted anything naughty over at tumblr, but they don't think so, flagging two of my Veterans Day posts. 

Other things: 

* The Captain Marvel trailer released tonight. There's rumor that we get an Avengers 4 teaser later this week. 

* I discovered Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat on Netflix last night and I'm enraptured. Simin is the best. Such love for what she's doing and eating and learning and there's nothing precious or performative about it. It's just a gal going around learning about food, mostly by talking to other women. 

I've asked NYPL to get the ebook, but they think I nag them because they tell me I suggest too many things. 


* This is what NYPL did give me: 


These are both worth reading, I think. The Black Plague novel is a page-turner because it's essentially a zombie movie and you genuinely fear for some of the characters' survival. It does a brilliant job of worldbuilding and scene-setting and portraying how small a serf's world was, physically and socially. It's also completely anachronistic inasfar as Lady Anne is a completely modern 20th Century woman who just happens to have been born in 1319 -- she has modern notions of hygiene and literacy and egalitarianism and a few Catholic heresies to boot. You'll like her a lot anyway. Lady Eleanor is a comic book character in the worst ways and you won't like her long before the unfortunate last twist. Thaddeus is the one who'd have the most fanfic on AO3. It's part one of two and I would like to read the two. 

Norton's history of women's exactly that, but a good one because it utilizes women of all classes and circumstances to paint a full picture of what it meant to be a Sixteenth Century woman in England.