Because sometimes you have an emergency appendectomy and get a chance to sit still for five minutes and read! I'm amazed I started this book list before April.
Yup, out of the clear blue sky, this week. I'm off until next Thursday by doctor's orders, so I'm getting friendly with my book backlog and checking off a bunch of fiddly little to-do list items that don't require a lot of moving around.
Just read your update post, and I am thrilled to hear you so happy with work & play. Hugs from afar! :)
Oh no! I hope your recovery is going well! My brother had an appendectomy a few years ago. I'm always amazed by how not a big deal it is nowadays. Of course, I'm sure you know way more about the mechanics of it than I do.
I came out of busy season with an insatiable desire to read. I realized that my exhaustion was due in part to less sleep--though honestly, it wasn't that much less than usual--but a lot of it was that I'm also used to reading 1-2 hours every day, and I read nothing during busy season. I've seriously read like 400,000 words in the few weeks since. I don't consider myself a huge reader (at least not compared to jethrien), I usually watch a fair bit of TV as relaxation, but jesus getting it taken away made me realize that no, I read a lot. Every day. And it's kind of important to my mental equilibrium.
That's it exactly! Mental equilibrium. I do the same sort of rebound reading after intense rotations. Even on heavy months when there's only time for eating and sleeping, I try and squeeze some reading into bath time. I just don't function as well when I don't get those hours.
I'm recovering all right, I think. The pain's manageable if I'm sitting still, I just can't bend or lift very effectively. It all feels kind of surreal -- did it really happen? The steri-strips and Percocet suggest it did, but I'm only half-convinced. Thanks for asking. :)
That's wonderful! I hope you also enjoyed it. I suspect I'd have an awful time trying to copyedit a book I really liked -- too easy to sink into the story. :)
Thanks! I'm recovering well, and while I wouldn't have wished for the appendectomy, I definitely appreciate the week I got off work as a result.
no, it's wayyy better to copyedit a book i really like! it just means i read ahead a bunch, and then go back and read again actually copyediting the second time. that book was a lot of work because the plot was so complicated and i have to map out exactly what happened on what days and make sure all the chronology and logic is correct, but i love doing that. i was supposed to copyedit the third book earlier this year but was too busy when it finally came in :(
Mmm, I was so-so on Darkest Part of the Forest. I enjoyed it -- I love the romance of a mysterious sleeping horned prince in a modern town, and I appreciate the fact that Holly's plot twists manage to surprise me -- but I'm just not as into her faerie books as I was into Curse Workers or even The Coldest Girl in Coldtown. So, fun, worth a read, but not what I'd use to sell you on Holly Black, unless you already really like faerie stories.
Ah, yeah. I actually generally dislike Fae stories (with exceptions, like Seanan McGuire's October Daye books), part of the reason I never really tried Tithe etc. Maybe I'll give Coldtown another shot, though.
SO nice to get the downtime. I was on a really rough rotation when this happened, with a challenging supervisor, and having a week away has been wonderful -- apart from the guilt of inconveniencing my co-interns, who are stuck covering for me. :(
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Also, so with you on The Raven Boys--I just loved those. So much love.
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Just read your update post, and I am thrilled to hear you so happy with work & play. Hugs from afar! :)
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I came out of busy season with an insatiable desire to read. I realized that my exhaustion was due in part to less sleep--though honestly, it wasn't that much less than usual--but a lot of it was that I'm also used to reading 1-2 hours every day, and I read nothing during busy season. I've seriously read like 400,000 words in the few weeks since. I don't consider myself a huge reader (at least not compared to jethrien), I usually watch a fair bit of TV as relaxation, but jesus getting it taken away made me realize that no, I read a lot. Every day. And it's kind of important to my mental equilibrium.
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I'm recovering all right, I think. The pain's manageable if I'm sitting still, I just can't bend or lift very effectively. It all feels kind of surreal -- did it really happen? The steri-strips and Percocet suggest it did, but I'm only half-convinced. Thanks for asking. :)
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Thanks! I'm recovering well, and while I wouldn't have wished for the appendectomy, I definitely appreciate the week I got off work as a result.
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How'd you like Darkest Part of the Forest? I loved the Curse Workers series from Holly Black, but haven't read anything else of hers.
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Mmm, I was so-so on Darkest Part of the Forest. I enjoyed it -- I love the romance of a mysterious sleeping horned prince in a modern town, and I appreciate the fact that Holly's plot twists manage to surprise me -- but I'm just not as into her faerie books as I was into Curse Workers or even The Coldest Girl in Coldtown. So, fun, worth a read, but not what I'd use to sell you on Holly Black, unless you already really like faerie stories.
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