My current reading update...

Finished "The Mandala of SherlockHolmes," and am very tempted to go "Yay! Shiny!" :) It went over the top - at a couple of points I very nearly rolled my eyes and said, "this is just TOO much," but overall I thought that the choice of narrator, the Babuji Mookerjee, was the saving grace. In the best style of Holmes pastiches, the tapestry of the story world is hooked to that of the real world in so many places (in numerous footnotes - yay, footnotes!) that it gets difficult to determine where one ends and the other begins, at times. The author, Jamyang Norbu, presents the story as being written by Mookerjee, and creates a story of how he found it (common to Holmes pastiches, though often there's yet another character inserted there who does the finding). And! ( minor end-story spoiler! )

I also finished the first section of the ( book on female pirates )

Okay, enough of that sort of rambling. ( In the work rambling )

And in personal ramblings - June gave me her phone number. I'm such a dork that I forgot to give her mine in return.:) Teena will be returning to Maine, soon, and staying with June for a while until she can get either her own place or some roommates. In fact, I told Teena I'd give her and June a ride from the airport the night she comes in, but I neglected to tell June that, too. I'm such a dork.:) It did cross my mind to phone her when I got home tonight and correct both those oversights, but I'm also a phone-phobic dork.:)