August ...ing
I jinxed myself by stating how relaxed I felt after my break in France. I crashed back into reality with a bang, a hard landing. Iris is really not having a good time. I do worry so much. Life as a teenager is hard enough and life a transgender teenager is throwing up extra challenges for her. She is ready to talk though, and ready to accept support. Iris started college, which is an excellent distraction. Anyway, a brief update on all things happening in August. :: Listening to a new crime series. New to me that is, the first was published in 2003. It is the detective Karen Pirie series by Val McDermid, set in Scotland. The first in the series, The Distant Echo , had DS Karen Pirie appear only tangentially. We encounter her in a more active detecting role in A Darker Domain and she was promoted to DI in The Skeleton Road. I am a bit torn about the books, I do like a neat resolution, which you will not get with this series, at least not in the stories I listened to so far. The s...
