Playing Wednesday Hooky
I don't work at the library on Wednesdays. When I'm in a deadline crunch, Wednesdays are my best work-at-home days, because I can spend the whole day focusing on one project or another. In theory, I should be feeling one of these now. I have projects to work on, one due in less than two weeks. (I tell myself that it's percolating, and am actually going to do some online research for it as soon as I finish this blog entry.)
The thing about Wednesdays is that I can afford to be lazy on them, because I don't have anywhere to be besides at home. Which makes those novels I've been putting off awfully tempting, especially when it's still cold enough outside that spending the day curled up in a blanket with a good book sounds like the ideal plan. (To be fair, I should say that it's cold enough in my apartment, as I haven't stepped outside. From the windows, it looks like there's plenty of sunshine, so I *may* actually take a walk.)
So instead of having a super productive, look-at-all-the-work-I've-done kind of day, I spent the morning (and a chunk of the afternoon) reading, first a romance novel by Nalini Singh (who was recommended over on ilona_andrews's blog--I'm looking forward to picking up one of her paranormals, but the romance I read was cute) and then Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead (blue_succubus). As I may theorhetically be reviewing the latter for flamesrising (Matt: has anyone already reviewed it?), I'll keep my comments short. Very rarely have I cared so deeply about a character who's supposed to be batting for team evil--and, in fact, I very rarely cry in urban fantasies (though I'm generally a weeper). Georgina is a wonderfully compelling main character, and I did, in fact, shed some tears right along with her over the course of the novel. (Don't picture a succubus crying? Neither did I.) It is *so* different in style from Vampire Academy that if I hadn't known Richelle wrote both of them, I'd never have guessed. (Even better? I really enjoyed both! So, major points to Richelle on that score.)
And now done gushing, since I really ought to do something productive with my day.
The thing about Wednesdays is that I can afford to be lazy on them, because I don't have anywhere to be besides at home. Which makes those novels I've been putting off awfully tempting, especially when it's still cold enough outside that spending the day curled up in a blanket with a good book sounds like the ideal plan. (To be fair, I should say that it's cold enough in my apartment, as I haven't stepped outside. From the windows, it looks like there's plenty of sunshine, so I *may* actually take a walk.)
So instead of having a super productive, look-at-all-the-work-I've-done kind of day, I spent the morning (and a chunk of the afternoon) reading, first a romance novel by Nalini Singh (who was recommended over on ilona_andrews's blog--I'm looking forward to picking up one of her paranormals, but the romance I read was cute) and then Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead (blue_succubus). As I may theorhetically be reviewing the latter for flamesrising (Matt: has anyone already reviewed it?), I'll keep my comments short. Very rarely have I cared so deeply about a character who's supposed to be batting for team evil--and, in fact, I very rarely cry in urban fantasies (though I'm generally a weeper). Georgina is a wonderfully compelling main character, and I did, in fact, shed some tears right along with her over the course of the novel. (Don't picture a succubus crying? Neither did I.) It is *so* different in style from Vampire Academy that if I hadn't known Richelle wrote both of them, I'd never have guessed. (Even better? I really enjoyed both! So, major points to Richelle on that score.)
And now done gushing, since I really ought to do something productive with my day.