I never thought I'd be happy to see Monday come around. I stayed home with Aggie all weekend, reading and trying to stay warm. I finally finished GWTW and then we watched Lonesome Dove. I've never read the book - I really ought to as I've heard it's quite good. I just don't want to get hooked on another author! I watched Comanche Moon when it was on last year and I had a really hard time with the younger versions (weird casting) of the Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones characters. I've watched LD so many times I've lost track. It kills me to see Robert Urich be a bad guy, although Jake Spoon really just fell in with the wrong crowd, I mean, Dee Boot's brother and all... I always wondered if July Johnson got together with Claire Allen and if Newt grew up to marry Claire's daughter, Sally. And I never could understand why Larry McMurtry killed Joshua Deets off. As you can see, I've gotten pretty attached to these characters over the years! I tried to watch Dead Man's Walk but James Garner as the old version of Woodrow Call was terrible and Sissy Spacek as Lorena was completely wrong. Sam Shepard wasn't a bad Pea Eye Parker, but I was sort of fond of the original guy. Apparently I missed Return to Lonesome Dove somewhere along the line, so I'm going to put it on my Netflix queue. So anyway, after we watched LD, I finished reading my stack of Alex Matthews mysteries so I could pass them on to Richard. I discovered her a few years ago on DorothyL, the mystery writers list, and I won her first five or six books by guessing how many peanut butter cups in a jar - one of the few times I've ever won anything! They're pretty good - and of course, there's a cat, so what's not to like? I have one more to read and I'm caught up - trying to clear out my book drawer getting ready to move on Friday. I'm looking forward to it.
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