Thursday Thoughts

1. This week we made Chicken Piccata with Lemon Pasta. This is one of our favorite meals. I love the lemon flavor and the salty bite of capers.

2. This week I caved in and ate Fritos. Begged SP to buy them. I just had to have Fritos.

3. I finally started reading again. There was a long hiatus because of our vacation and then the post-vacation recovery time. This month I've read:

• The Catch and The Doll by Taylor Stevens
• The Girl in the Spider's Web
• Make Me by Lee Child 

I have stack of 3 unread library books next to my chair. I'm enjoying Stevens' Vanessa Michael Munroe books, so those 2 were good. I loved the latest Jack Reacher novel. I started reading during the Steelers game and I couldn't put it down. I even read all through watching The Leftovers (which, I just kind of don't get and it's so... depressing. And confusing). Lee Child doesn't disappoint.

The Girl in the Spider's Web was good, too, and I got engrossed and couldn't put it down. I couldn't decide if I wanted to like it because I love the original trilogy or if I wanted to not like it because I feel like Larsson's estranged father & brother and his publisher are just exploiting his characters and legacy for all they're worth and not being fair to his long time partner. My dad enjoyed the book a lot, too, after being skeptical of a book based on Larsson's characters but written by someone else.

4. As for TV:

• We gave up on Minority Report 
• We are enjoying the new season of Fargo
• We still have a lot of laughs watching Brooklyn Nine Nine, Modern Family, and Big Bang Theory
• I want to quit The Leftovers but SP is undecided. He might have to watch it by himself.
• We both are still enjoying Quantico and trying to figure out who framed Alex
• We both are cheering madly against Green Team on Amazing Race
• I can't wait for this Thursday's Grey's Anatomy after last week's ending!

5. A couple of the Thanksgiving issues of the magazines to which we subscribe arrived. I'm not ready for Thanksgiving! I need to get through Halloween and then my birthday and then we'll figure out Thanksgiving. But there will for sure be pumpkin pie, apple pie, and sausage stuffing.