Fifty Shades of Snow

Previously, on "bironic Reads the Fifty Shades Trilogy":

Book two: Fifty Shades Darker

Fifty Shades of Grey, part 3
Fifty Shades of Grey, part 2
Fifty Shades of Grey, part 1

Now, I did read Fifty Shades Freed right after finishing book two, but then I didn't post about it. It was going to take more effort than I had available to make sense of the final characterizations and explain my disappointments about the conclusion.

That was almost two years ago. Checking Wikipedia confirms that I have forgotten pretty much the entire plot. What I did do before returning the book to the library was type up some passages I'd flagged. They've been sitting in a Word doc. Even though the details of the story have fled my brain, I wanted to share these notes as we gear up for the release of the film adaptation.

You see, because I continue to want to dip into particular canons firsthand instead of relying on other people's often polarized and non-nuanced opinions, and perhaps because I am living out the saying that "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" with this series, I have this kernel of hope that the movie will do something right. Even if that something is not "distill this bloated 1,500-page narrative into two hours."

( Notes on book three )

Sorry, that wasn't very funny. Have this GoodReads review I just found. It's great, except for the part between the Boy Meets World and jumping Jensen Ackles gifs, wherein she says not-nice things about EL James herself.

We'll see what the movie brings.

In the meantime, snow. How much is on the ground, you didn't ask? I will tell you anyway. There is so much snow on the ground that I cannot gauge how much new snow has fallen. Like yesterday I woke up and things looked exactly the same as Saturday but it turned out we got 3 inches overnight. It has been snowing since then, and it is supposed to continue to snow until the wee hours of the night. The Globe says we've gotten 12 inches in the last 24 hours? That's what Ana Steele said. I seriously can't tell. The picnic table and chairs in the backyard have been buried. The snow banks are taller than the cars wedged between and alongside them I am. More predicted for Thursday. Boston has already blown through its historical 7- and 30-day snowfall records. Wahoo.