Since the hero and heroine in the last romance I read were both unusually tall, I couldn't help but compare it the whole time to Heyer's The Toll-gate. So instead of reading The Golden Mean, I decided to re-read TG.
Heyer has some romances where the romance gets resolved about half-way through, and the rest of the book is the resolution of the mystery story. They're as good as her romance-onlies, though. I remember enjoying this one quite a bit.
Meanwhile I've also amassed a pile of magazines to read. I try very hard to ignore magazines most of the year, but at Christmastime something comes over me. I guess cause we used to like buying magazines for New Year's and doing all the quizzes. The glossies still callll to me.
In other news... I had to work today--my boss asked another manager and myself to come in for four hours on our day off. But of course then I had other work to do, so stayed about 7 hours. But I had some gift cards burning a hole in my pocket, so I bought Fernando a bright green faux-cashmere scarf which was on sale, the fourth Les Nombrils where the girls fight to get back the plain one's boyfriend, Vanity Fair and Vogue, and the recently released pocket book of Still Alice (said to be Excellent, about a woman with Alzheimer's.)
I know, I know, I'm not supposed to be buying books. It's soooo haaaaaard. I wanted to buy The Children's Book too, because it's also supposed to be super excellent. But I stopped myself. And I resisted the new Adrian Mole in hard cover--will wait for the paperback. So I think I was pretty good.
