# (Old) A Good Read in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 19, 2024, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-good-read-in-the-mmp/1005898 "2024-08-19T08:03:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 35
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-good-read-in-the-mmp/1005898/35 "2024-08-19T22:19:48Z")
_Started Typing: 5:38 PM ET Clicked Reply: 6:21 PM ET_ I’ve always been a reader. I have three main “things”: music, words, and language. All for as long as I can remember – e.g., reading at a 2nd-grade level when I was in kindergarten. I’m mostly a contemporary fiction person, and if I had to name a favorite genre it would probably be legal/police thrillers: my favorite author was P.D. James, and I’m currently 18 books into the Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny (#19 comes out in two months!). So, I enjoy the whole John Grisham/Scott Turow/Michael Connelly/David Baldacci/Patricia Cornwell/James Patterson shebang, and I’m a fan of J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith (as well as herself). But I also love Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, I’ve read all of the Dresden Files books (and some other fantasy), and for a long time I was a huge Dean Koontz fan. A while back Koontz’s books started leaving me feeling “meh,” but my all-time-favorite book is still _Watchers_.There are many books I love, from various genres. Right now I’m reading _What’s Next_, a nonfiction “backstage pass to _The West Wing_” that was just released last week (written by two actors from the show, Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack). I’m a Wingnut – the nickname for superfans – so I’m enjoying it. Yesterday afternoon I got a bee in my bonnet and did some Lego-based furniture rearranging. The 3BR 1BA single-level house I rent has a small eat-in kitchen, and I’d recently started toying with the idea of putting some display shelves in there. But doing so wouldn’t leave much room to actually use the kitchen table, so I decided to try some rearranging first. It involved moving lots of books, a set of glass shelves, and a big glass curio cabinet (full of the Swarovski crystal figurines I’ve collected over the years) between the LR, kitchen, and home office; then, I moved all of the completed Lego sets that were on the home office bookcase to the set of glass shelves (newly in the LR). The whole endeavor took somewhere around 90 minutes, but a chunk of that time was spent cleaning the curio cabinet shelves and contents for the first time in several years. I’m happy with the new location of the cabinet – the contents get more light, and now can be viewed from the sides – and am _very_ happy to see everything inside it clean and sparkly again! Anyway, now all of my assembled Lego sets are in the LR _and_ there’s room for a few new ones…which is good timing, because my staycation is just 3 weeks away. 😁 > [@(Old) On this day in history in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-on-this-day-in-history-in-the-mmp/1005605/261): > > It turns out that my son’s stomach problem was a hot appendix. I hope he’s recovering well! > [@(Old) On this day in history in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-on-this-day-in-history-in-the-mmp/1005605/263): > > I’ve driven 40 from Nashville to Wilmington, and 95 from the tip of Florida to NYC. I’ve driven faster than that. ( 😃 ) > [@(Old) On this day in history in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-on-this-day-in-history-in-the-mmp/1005605/269): > > I seem to have recovered from Covid, so that’s good. Yay! 🎉 > [@(Old) On this day in history in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-on-this-day-in-history-in-the-mmp/1005605/284): > > He likes to do > [Crystal 3D](https://3dcrystalpuzzle.com/products/panda) > but they fall apart too easily. Ooooo, thank you for sharing: my nephew’s GF is into both Lego and puzzles, and now I’m wondering if she might like one of those for Christmas. 🙂 > [@peedin](#): > > That is a perfectly fine lunch but I’m feeling deprived. I sooooo know the feeling! I decided to get tough with myself about how much snacking I do, starting today, and it’s ridiculous how strong my craving for chips and cookies is right now. Sigh. I know from experience that it will pass after a few days, but…why, brain?!? > [@InternetLegend](#): > > Mr. Legend’s oldest friend died from a heart attack on Monday. Oh no! Oh, I’m so sorry. > [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Good news is that my temperature has remained lower for 20 hours now. Maybe I can get clearance to pack up today. 🤞 ! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-good-read-in-the-mmp/1005898)._