After several consecutive days in which it feels like I’m getting to bed way too late, getting up way too early, and juggling cats all day in between, today has been more odd than most. A memorial service for an ex-brother-in-law (is there an actual term for a brother or sister of an ex-spouse?) and way, way too many hours in LA rush hour traffic, both coming and going, watching innumerable yahoos driving while on the phone, texting, eating, shaving, putting on makeup, or generally doing ANYTHING except driving their car and staying in their own lane.
Trying to get my thoughts back on track this evening, I realized I hadn’t actually sat and read a book, a work of fiction printed on dead trees, in quite a while. I read articles and news and tweets and so on all day long, and I’m constantly looking stuff up and web surfing and reading things about all of the various topics you might see here — but I haven’t just kicked back and read a book for the pleasure of it in some time.
I think I’m going to do that tonight. When I was last reading, I was about a quarter of the way through Mira Grant’s “Blackout.” It’s still sitting here on my desk, staring at me, making me feel guilty every day. Time to get back to the zombie apocalypse.
If you’re following this blog and you’re not a bot (hello, bots!) I’m confident that you’re also a reader. While I go off for some mandatory decompression time with a good book, I’ll ask what you’re reading or what you most recently read? I’m curious.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 
I just started a reread of The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede while I wait on the next Heroes of Olympus book that’s out next week. And I just finished Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson, probably my favorite of his stand alone novels.
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I’m 27% into the last Harry Potter book, been rereading the whole series in French since July or so. Hoping to finish soon, not sure what I’ll pick up after. The last Heroes of Olympus book will be out next week, so maybe that, or something else fun.
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I’m halfway through Jack Templar and the Lord of the Werewolves (#4 in the series). OK, I’m reading it for a blog tour or blast, but I’m really impressed with this series – Michi might like it too.
I have the same problem definition as you. The ex-wife of my brother is still my sister-in-law, isnt she? or maybe my ex-sister-in-law?
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Most of the YA books I hear about are through the authors I follow online. Chuck Wendig’s (of course), and I guess Scalzi’s “Zoe’s Tale” is considered YA. So was Cory Doctrow’s “Little Brother” which I enjoyed a LOT – didn’t find out that it wasn’t aimed at an “adult” demographic until much later.
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I’m generally a non-fiction reader; so my current tomb is Nature’s God by Matthew Stewart. It’s about the radical heathens that founded the USA. Most of the founding fathers were deist; which was code for atheist.
One of the most radical of the lot was Ethan Allen. He wrote – although there is some question to how much was from him – a book called Oracles of Reason. It was referred to as VT’s bible. The revisionist have turned EA into a drunken rabble rouser; but he was quite the anti-religious, men should be free from tyranny troublemaker.,
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Interesting, we got all of the usual “Ethan Allan & The Green Mountain Boys” stories in Vermont, but had never heard about that aspect.
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I’m a bit late to the party, but I’m currently slogging my way through The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick. Alas, it’s not one of his best and has, so far, been fairly disappointing.
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Dick is often slogging fodder, but his stuff keeps making fantastic movies. I heard someone’s picked up “Man In The High Castle” for a movie?
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Again? We’ll see… I think there were a couple more of his books in the pipeline but off the top of my head, I can’t think what they are. I need to get A Scanner Darkly from Netflix. That’s one jacked-up movie LOL
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