I think I should prefer not to...
Felt sufficiently better this evening to drag myself to a book launch.
Plus: that I realised how little time it took to get to the venue when I had a clear idea of where it was in my head (it was in same venue as a talk I gave about this time last year and where I had fortunately allowed myself enough time to get lost and still arrive in time to sort my PowerPoint and other necessary preliminaries).
Also plus, had nice chat with BBL who was also there.
A further plus was that there was no live music, a situation which had heretofore eventuated at launches for author in question.
Though slightly minus that apart from BBL and The MollyMan, and the author and their spouse, hardly anybody I recognised, which seemed slightly odd, given what the book was about. I would have expected more usual suspects from the floating crap game...
Also rather minus was that the book was a damned great fat heavy thing and I decided to buy it (if I buy it at all...) online with discount code I have somewhere, as I was already laden up with Stuff. Especially as I felt somewhat meh about it, from glancing through it and checking for my name in bibliography and in footnotes to chapter on topic I have published on, and the general tenor of the thing, and rather hope no-one asks me to review it.
This may be me being a bit tired and still not 100% and grumpy, and feeling rather overburdened with reading, things to write, etc and not feeling compelled to buy something that I would feel obligated to read if I did, when there are already so many other things in the tbr pile.
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