everybody wants to be a cat

I am about ready to give up on Game of Thrones. I really didn't find the first episode of the new season that gripping (though I did like ( this spoiler )

But I was bored as anything throughout season five, and this episode, so I'm going to watch the next episode and then if that's as boring to me, I'm going to give up. Admittedly, I only really watched for the people who are good to look at, and for the costumes, but sometimes the story was interesting as well.

I totally don't remember ( this other spoiler )

I'm not really bothered, but I thought I would've remembered something so big, even after nine months (I wouldn't have known at all, but that they mentioned it on Thronecast and both me and my mum were all ?????? at each other).

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I am currently rereading The Raven Boys, and powering through it. I did not find the first 100 pages a drag like last time! (Possibly because it makes better sense on reread. It shouldn't be that way, but that's how it seems to me). I have already spotted two pieces of foreshadowing/forehinting that I didn't pick up on the first time.

I am making a list of the Welsh words. I have found that there aren't any Welsh place names in Virginia (Ms Stiefvater made that bit up, so it seems), but Pennsylvania has a whole slew. I also found that Pennsylvania was supposed to have had a Welsh colony, but that collapsed (which is the tl;dr version of events).

Mum hasn't read the books, but is irrationally mad about the bending of the story of Glyndŵr to suit the narrative. I don't care, myself. What I primarily love about these books are that they are about teenagers being teenagers, and being friends, and (mostly) having fun.

Anyway, now Hinterland is on, so I'm going to go and watch that.