In which a hiatus is lifted (I think...)
Oy. I’m beginning to think I shouldn’t be trusted with predicting my LJ availability anymore. Lesson learned this summer: Compounding no-so-great time management skills with an unexpected full-time job does not a recipe for productivity make (at least productivity of the more leisurely kind: it hasn't yet seriously compromised my performance at work and/or school-knock on wood-although I’m afraid it would serve as a good kick in the pants for my constant impulse to procrastinate *gulp*). Switch out the job with “a college workload” and, well.... *sigh*
But...enough of that. Will try-more earnestly than before, I hope-the “knuckle down and get your you-know-what in order” thing again, especially since I’m out of the cubicle-and-coffee environment for the time being. My inner night owl still protests any situation in which a 4 AM wake-up time ever becomes a long-term gig, however-and I think, looking back at this summer in particular, I’ll have to concede to that demand. XD
On the other hand, I do have Deathly Hallows to thank for my spending most of the second half of this summer far and away from FMA fandom and LJ to avoid spoilers. What? No, that doesn’t mean I only just finished it last Friday, even though I started reading it on July 21st like a good little HP fan! Honest! (Er....)
*coughs* All right, so my reading schedule was decidedly...staggered this summer. The fact that I’m not exactly the fastest reader in the world didn’t help matters much, either. >_>; No blame falls on the book itself; it was just mostly me being too groggy after work to get myself in the mood to plunge in. And maybe some good ol’ “delaying the inevitable” as the fact that this was the last book in a series I’ve been eagerly following since middle school sank in.
I want to dive into this more in a forthcoming post, but my verdict in short? Still some annoyances (though not too different from what I would’ve said about almost any of the previous books) and minor caveats, but otherwise...color me satisfied and sufficiently enthralled! :D I should get around to a more thorough “review” (although I have a feeling it'll read more like pieces of meta scattered among reaction blurbs than an actual review *laughs*) in the next few days, since I have a copy of The Invention of Hugo Cabret waiting to be cracked open until I put down my thoughts re: Deathly Hallows while they're still fresh.
...And now I'm beginning to think the Lovegoods would better employ themselves in taking up the cause of the poor, defenseless parentheses abused by people like me than in their, er, usual pursuits. ^^;
But...enough of that. Will try-more earnestly than before, I hope-the “knuckle down and get your you-know-what in order” thing again, especially since I’m out of the cubicle-and-coffee environment for the time being. My inner night owl still protests any situation in which a 4 AM wake-up time ever becomes a long-term gig, however-and I think, looking back at this summer in particular, I’ll have to concede to that demand. XD
On the other hand, I do have Deathly Hallows to thank for my spending most of the second half of this summer far and away from FMA fandom and LJ to avoid spoilers. What? No, that doesn’t mean I only just finished it last Friday, even though I started reading it on July 21st like a good little HP fan! Honest! (Er....)
*coughs* All right, so my reading schedule was decidedly...staggered this summer. The fact that I’m not exactly the fastest reader in the world didn’t help matters much, either. >_>; No blame falls on the book itself; it was just mostly me being too groggy after work to get myself in the mood to plunge in. And maybe some good ol’ “delaying the inevitable” as the fact that this was the last book in a series I’ve been eagerly following since middle school sank in.
I want to dive into this more in a forthcoming post, but my verdict in short? Still some annoyances (though not too different from what I would’ve said about almost any of the previous books) and minor caveats, but otherwise...color me satisfied and sufficiently enthralled! :D I should get around to a more thorough “review” (although I have a feeling it'll read more like pieces of meta scattered among reaction blurbs than an actual review *laughs*) in the next few days, since I have a copy of The Invention of Hugo Cabret waiting to be cracked open until I put down my thoughts re: Deathly Hallows while they're still fresh.
...And now I'm beginning to think the Lovegoods would better employ themselves in taking up the cause of the poor, defenseless parentheses abused by people like me than in their, er, usual pursuits. ^^;