I'm doing okay. A little sleepy, but nothing awful. Percocet is really handy for nighttime dealing with the battered feeling. I AM going into work though.
In the past two days I've read
Imaginary Girls, Glass Heart
and
Shadow and Bone.
It's been tons of fun to do entertaining reading. Before that it was
The Dog Stars
which was excellent. Like I could teach it in AP excellent. Next on my list are
Telegraph Hill and finishing the new Junot Diaz book.
I like Junot Diaz in theory better than reality and I like the new one, sort of, more than Oscar Wao. Oscar Wao made me want to smack somebody.
Also on the list,
The Barbaria Nurseries
by Hector Tobar which is mostly excellent from the snippets I read.
Being in slight pain or fear of pain + waiting at appointments is excellent for my reading.
I liked it, but I get why you might feel that way.While everyone deserves love, and that unrequited thing sucks(just ask the mayor) that shouldn't imply that Oscar is entitled to be beloved by the object of his desire...it was very different from everything I read at the time I read it and I liked its use of language(languages)?
Oscar Wao made me want to smack somebody.
OMG thank you.
Right?? I thought I was the only person who didn't love that book.
Funnily enough, I thought it would be up your alley, PC. Of course, I should know better than to guess at that stuff given the ultraviolent dreck I sometimes get recommended because I "like mysteries"
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
I enjoyed it. I don't remember it at all, but I enjoyed it at the time.
I read
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
at about the same time (so they are forever linked in my brain for no real reason) and enjoyed it more. And remember it better.
what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
My niece thought I might like the Left Behind series. To be fair, she was ~11 at the time.
Funnily enough, I thought it would be up your alley, PC.
Me too!
ok, what's the most unfortunate book rec you ever got?
Well, people did tell me to read the
Dark Is Rising
books...though maybe not in a direct, you-would-like-this way.
One of mine was, despite not fitting in the "Violent Misogyny" category mentioned previously, because, really, those just turn into a blur of "Who the hell do you think I am?" Those "The Cat Who..." books.
I do love mysteries and cats, and we even had a little Siamese for a while, but somehow? THe books left me less than charmed.
