all among the nodding trees

I've been trying to cut back on my usual habit of stress-shopping, so I've been stress-reading instead -- now you all get to hear about it.

( book talk and recs )

...on an unrelated note, jesus you guys, Netflix's The King looks like it's going to make my head pop off with incoherent Histories rage and yet I know I'm absolutely going to watch it. I'd say "watch it and get drunk", but I have a liquor tolerance of approximately zero right now. I understand it must be really tempting to cast oneself as Falstaff in one's own Histories project, but on what planet is that a Falstaff? I'm calling my mother.