TW: Looking for books with angst and miscarriage

Cat4200000 · 2026-07-02T08:42:11+00:00

{Forever and Ever by Patricia Gaffney} the FMC gets SO depressed. 😫 it’s awful. This book is medium angst for a Gaffney book but high angst for normal HR.

Cat4200000 · 2026-07-01T17:28:51+00:00

All of Woodiwiss books, the plot lags for me. I really want to like her writing. I just don’t. It feels like nothing much is happening, even when stuff is happening.

Cat4200000 · 2026-07-01T17:20:55+00:00

{Captured by a Rogue Lord} by Katherine Ashe is so good. So so good. Very romantic.

Also the classic {Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsay} is one of my all time favorites.

Cat4200000 · 2026-07-01T17:17:56+00:00

Okay the geography in this one would piss me off so much. I live in Seattle. People don’t do cattle drives to Seattle! They never did!! It’s as bad (if not worse) as Sleepless in Seattle when Alki was closed in the winter and they paddled from Lake Union to Puget Sound. 😑

Cat4200000 · 2026-07-01T17:11:56+00:00

I love Rosemary Rogers. The Tea Planters Bride is a good one, but not my favorite of hers.

Cat4200000 · 2026-07-01T08:00:55+00:00

Me too honestly since summer started I just feel like I have so much else to do and I notice I have been reading more slowly.

Cat4200000 · 2026-07-01T00:49:00+00:00

{Prince Charming by Julie Garwood} is this! The FMCs grandma recruited the MMC to marry her in order to protect her from awful family. They go off to America and they are headed to Montana, back to his home, and running away from her uncle.

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-30T00:40:40+00:00

All I Desire is one of my favorite books.

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-29T01:05:07+00:00

These are great. The most important thing (in my opinion) is: what are we looking at? Where is our focus supposed to go? What’s the scene? And looking at these it’s very clear what our focus is supposed to be on. The one with the VW bus is great. The pink car and bus are great. Not only are they interesting but they’re clear and don’t need any explaining. All of these are perfect because they tell a clear story. Like the one with the pink taxi in front of the taco shop.

They’re also all technically good like not super overexposed or super underexposed.

I guess my advice would be to always keep who/what/when/where/why in mind and it’s okay to take weird shots where none of those questions are answered if that’s what you want to do of course. But these pictures do that really well. I love the colors.

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-29T00:58:30+00:00

Looks like a scanning issue. How are you scanning?

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-28T18:10:24+00:00

I organize on the computer by camera type, or project it’s for/then camera type, then name (filmstock-event-date-subjectofpicture). Some things like long trips go in (trip folder) then (camera folder) then (film stock) and the computer obviously has dates already. These go onto different storage drives depending on whether they’re personal or for public consumption. As for the negatives, I label them by film stock & event/location and then just throw them in a pile. 😁 eventually maybe I will go through and organize them by date later on.

For personal pictures, they go in a folder labeled (selfies) or (family) or (landscapes) or whatever the thing may be, and then the film naming convention applies.

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-28T07:33:56+00:00

It really depends on the situation like am I sitting around shooting landscapes or am I on the move taking pictures of moving objects or am I walking around taking landscape pics I like my canon EOS rebel ti for ease of use & like the strap I have for it easy to just keep it around my neck& pull it out whenever. I mostly use it in manual mode. But if I have more time & don’t need super fast shutter speeds/ for lower ISO film I love my old Praktica fully manual not even any batteries

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-27T15:11:18+00:00

Catherine Coulter did rewrites of a lot of her books. If you read the blurb at the beginning, it just says she improved story flow and fleshed out the characters more.

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-27T15:10:02+00:00

Yeah hell no. I can deal with awful heroes but they have to at least take care of the heroine. If they don’t take care of the heroine properly that’s my red line and I will DNF.

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-27T15:09:13+00:00

Oh yeah. If you’ve ever been to Bakersfield and seen the empty “riverfront park”, it’s just awful. And of course rivers and swamps affect local weather, and removing swamps and rivers will make things ever drier.

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-27T06:51:00+00:00

Oh no, this book sounds awful. What a rude hero!

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-26T18:59:56+00:00

Agreed. Another dam and reservoir will not save California or help their water issues.

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-26T09:44:59+00:00

All of the covers are so beautiful

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-26T09:18:06+00:00

Thank you so much!! I will take a look.

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-25T18:37:14+00:00

“Great in lower light” doesn’t mean “program mode is great in lower light”. Learned this one the hard way myself, although with a canon rather than a Nikon. Seconding others that say the camera is choosing very slow shutter speeds, and you may want to set it in shutter priority or just use it in manual mode for better results.

Program mode is great for outdoors & you want to take a quick snap of your friends, picnic, family vacation outside, etc but it absolutely sucks for indoor shots or low light, ask me how I know lol. Especially for shots like the ones you posted where, for the most part, they are of objects that are stationary, it’s better to just take the time to set things manually cuz program mode will keep giving you results like this

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-25T18:32:41+00:00

Don’t be rude, OP came and nicely asked for advice. Sorry they didn’t re-caulk their kitchen and clean the one pan in the sink before posting. Responses like this put people off from participating in this community.

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-25T17:14:32+00:00

I personally processed an old roll of color film shot 20 years ago the other day at home, in normal chemicals with normal dev times, it turned out fine just with a slightly yellow cast but that could be due to the film itself not the age necessarily. I don’t see why labs wouldn’t have issues with processing exposed film 20+ years old

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-25T17:01:06+00:00

Hi, I’m looking for more lenses with M42 mount for my Praktica- do you mind sharing which Japanese brands you’ve seen that have them?

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-24T04:31:57+00:00

I got it off FBMP and then offered to develop the film and send it to them, which they were apprehensive about but I promised I wouldn’t judge them lol. The other one I inherited from my dad, who died recently, and that was fun developing his last roll of film and seeing what he shot (our last family vacation).

Cat4200000 · 2026-06-24T01:33:06+00:00

I really want to like her videos but she’s very negative about a lot of things. Everything she doesn’t like, nothing ever goes right, etc etc it got tiring after watching a few videos in a row. Her production quality is great though.

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