Nights in and BOOKS! (yeah, I’m boring)
I love nights in. Especially nights in alone.
It’s sad and boring but very true.
Tonight, Seth is out at a music thing he has to go to, and I’ve decided to have a ‘girls night in’ solo style.
I love doing this, and really don’t get to do it very often, but tonight I am armed with awful chick flicks and tasty food (healthy food, trying to be careful there), a big cozy hoodie and a sleepy, cuddly (and rather disturbingly flatulent. And I mean really, really bad. We’re not talking clear a room bad, we’re talking clear the house bad) cat.
While I can’t recommend cat gas as an ideal addition to the evening, I CAN say that I picked this up on a whim at the supermarket today, and that despite being low fat it’s really very tasty.
I got the mocha truffle flavour. Oh yum.
And, to top the evening off, I have a pile of books waiting for me in my bed, and the electric blanket just waiting to be switched on.
Currently, I’m reading this:
but to me, nothing says luxury like a great big pile of books to read – I tend to read books so fast that I run out of reading material, which often sees me ration my reading so I don’t run out. Knowing I can read and read and then pick up another book and read and read some more is heaven to me, so I also have Phillip K Dick’s ‘Three Stigmata’ (a re-read, but it’s been a while), Marya Hornbacher’s ‘Wasted’ (another re-read. Or re-re-re-read, but I never get sick of it).
Plus, the electric blanket means I can be toasty warm (we live in a house with plenty of ventilation…mostly through unwanted and strange gaps in the floorboards, but hey, there you go. At least it makes sweeping easy when you can just drop the dust through the floor) without having to resort to reading in the bath.
Reading in the bath USED to be my preferred plan of attack, until I found I’d get so wrapped up in the book that I’d not notice the water turn to ice around me, only waking up to the real world when Seth banged on the door saying “You’ve been in there two hours! Are you even still alive?”
I am not a smart person.
However! I have a stack of books and an evening to myself, so all is right with the world! At least until the book stack is read.
Any suggestions for what to read next?
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Yeah read “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins. I read it in one day and so did Deni. It’s an AMAZING book. After that I read “Unwind” by Neal Shusterman, another good one!!
OH MY GOD Amy I hate your new blog…
Lol, I just wrote a massive list of books for you… then clicked leave comment, and it said, oh sorry, you forgot to enter your name, and guess what, you can’t go back and all your info you typed is lost so PFFFFT to you. (I’m paraphrasing here).
Anyhow, here are the few I can remember, but you don’t get my own short review on each now, you can look them up yourself
Ash (a secret history) by Mary Gentle
Kabuki by David Mack (comic books, you can buy them in compilation sets for each “series”, “Circle of Blood”, Skin Deep and Alchemy I think each series is called. Hands down most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen. Check the interwebs there are some sample pages for reading about).
The Shadow Wars series (Shadow moon, shadow dawn, shadow star or something like that. These are sequels to the movie “Willow”).
“Memory and Dream” by Charles de Lint. Not brilliant… but a must read for any visual artist
Bah that’s all I remember. Good luck with it!
We’re just assembling out IKEA library wall so we can get all our books out of boxes. If you ever want to come up for a visit we can do a book swap meet
Oh no! That is a real pain in the arse – I’ll look into it to see if I can change some settings somewhere so that doesn’t happen!!
Just looked up Kabuki – what amazing artwork! Certainly something to add to my list, thankyou! I’ll check out the others too.
I’ve heard of that book Becca, but never really paid a whole lot of attention. I guess I will now – you seem to like a lo of the same books I do, so I’ll certainly be giving that a go! Thankyou!