Because avoidance of problems and actual tasks is fun, I accidentally read two of the three books I picked up yesterday afternoon from the library. This has resulted in very little sleep and fragmented dreams about time travel. (The second book I read, or reread, was The Graveyard Game by Kage Baker, because bookelfe was talking about the Company novels, ( Read more... )

Guess who just stayed up until 4:30 in the morning to read Black Heart by Holly Black after her library request came in on Saturday? That's right; this loser.

*facepalm*

Well, that's completely going to throw my day off-kilter.

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So I spent much of yesterday supine in front of a fan, reading The Demon's Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan. Reactions were basically like my reactions to the previous books: audible squeaks, laughing, and a running mental script of oh my god Alan stop breaking my heart.

I knew better, but I did it anyway. Oops.

I'm having one of those feeling-jealous-because-I-just-read-Tamsin-again sorts of days (well, several days). There aren't actually that many books in the world that I wish I'd written, funnily enough: there are plenty of books I love, of course, and plenty of books that have had the sort of effects on me ( Read more... )

You know, I keep thinking I should try my hand at the 30 Days of Shakespeare meme, but a quick glance at the questions leads me to believe that way too many of my answers would involve Twelfth Night for there to be any suspense in the undertaking.

Anyway. Instead of doing Shakespeare memes, I have been reading children's and YA books:

1. The ( Read more... )

I decided that yesterday was a no-internet day, which was rather pleasant. Instead I tried to move as little as possible (as it was pretty hot), and finally read Sarah Rees Brennan's The Demon's Covenant. (I'd been inadvertently putting it off, because I kept getting home late, and learned my lesson with the first book--where I'd thought I might ( Read more... )

Books I've read lately:

The good:

1. White Cat (The Curse Workers: Book One), by Holly Black. In which Cassel Sharpe, the only non-worker in a family full of magic workers (in a world where magic is outlawed and so frequently has ties to underground crime), begins to think that his memories--especially those of killing his best friend Lila-- ( Read more... )

Various things that are tangentially related to the public library:

1. My request for Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey came in, so I stayed up until after 4 AM to read it. This is one of my Patented Idiot Moves, because I'm really tired now, but I can't say I regret it. If you've been here any time at all, you probably know that it pains and ( Read more... )

1. So, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell: convince me, o my flist. I have started reading this book twice now, and each time I've gone along quite happily for 200, 300 pages--until we hit the Napoleonic Wars. And then my brain just gives up. (Last time I made it to page 405, the very end of chapter 30, which had Stephen Black in it, and then I saw ( Read more... )

My brain always, always does this when we start nearing the end of the semester: it just--balks, and won't do anything of use. How many things did I have to do yesterday? A LOT. What did I do instead? Watched the last three episodes of S3 Slings & Arrows. Again. (And I teared up at the Bolivians, with their metal sheets and rain sticks making up ( Read more... )