I'm not sure what I want to say about Dying of the Light. I never had to actually put it in the freezer, but I did have to close it up and walk away from it a few times.

I might need to skip my library book and just start reading Dying of the Light. I'm no good at waiting!

Don't torture yourself, read! The library book can wait.

Speaking of putting books in the freezer, I don't know if I'm going to get past the first chapter of Ocean at the End of the Lane. Maybe I should switch to The Night Circus.

That's too bad. I loved The Ocean at the End of the Lane so much that as soon as I finished reading it, I ordered the audiobook so I could "read" it again. I've never finished The Night Circus, and it is for the silliest of the reasons. The end papers make me dizzy and nauseated even when I only catch at little glimpse of them. I may have to buy the kindle edition to be able to read it.

I'm currently reading Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. I read The Shining for the first time last week and then jumped right into this sequel. It's weird because I found The Shining to be completely terrifying, but I'm just finding Doctor Sleep to be very entertaining but not really scary.

Thanks for making me guffaw in my office, Jesse.

I loved The Ocean at the End of the Lane so much that as soon as I finished reading it

The kitten was just so sad! If it's not going to keep pummeling me like that, though, I'll keep going.

-t, sorry. I forgot about that. There are no more animals killed or in peril that I remember. Kids in peril but not animals.

However, I am apparently cold hearted because scenes like that don't really upset me into not reading things/watching things in the same way it does other buffistas.

Thanks! Peril I can handle. I assume anyway.

I don't know why that hit me quite so hard. These things happen sometimes.

I finished Doctor Sleep and now I need to decide what to read next. Maybe the new short story collection by Patricia Briggs or Landline by Rainbow Rowell.

sj, I just finished City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett and loved it. Epic fantasy about a world that killed their gods, where the colonized became colonizers, and now here's a murder mystery in a beatdown city. Smart, clever WoC protagonist with two middle-aged women as supporting characters. It digs into its serious concepts as much as you want it to, but it also has a wonderful sense of fun to it so it never veers into grimdark.

Thanks, Sunil. I'll look into that one, but for now I'm going to try to stick to books I already own. There are plenty to choose from.