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[seldnei]

I had this constant headache today. I kept forgetting to take anything for it, and then around 4 I remembered I could take some Advil, and I needed to shower ... and then this little voice said you know, you could be dehydrated, you spent 9 hours traveling yesterday.

One giant Busch Gardens souvenir cup of water and a shower later, and the headache is gone, no Advil needed. Yay water!

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I also have an enormous stack of unread books now, thanks to Half-Price Books in Dayton. I couldn't find anything in Barnes and Noble or Borders, but I literally had to use my book-filled hands as blinders in order to leave Half-Priced Books.

So my reading stack is :

Next Up
Alexandria by Lindsey Davis
The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Just Bought in Ohio
M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman
From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury
Don't Bet on the Prince by Jack Zipes
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Just After Sunset by Stephen King

Had for a Bit
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones
The Riddle of the Traveling Skull by Harry Stephen Keeler
Black Dogs by Ursula Vernon

Couldn't Get Into, But Will Try Again. Probably. Maybe.
Frankenstein vols 1 & 2 by Dean Koontz
Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Nocturnes by John Connolly
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

No Idea. Really.
Daniel X by James Patterson (my father loaned me this, so I'll give it a shot. I haven't read any other Patterson)

And I'm at least a month behind on comics.

I'm currently reading The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne Valente, which is probably the perfect book for me right now--absorbing when I pick it up, but with some natural pauses where I can put it down and actually sleep or do things that need doing. Page turners are over-rated, I think. People always say "I couldn't put it down!" and, yeah, that's cool. But I have a toddler, and what I really want, quite often, is a book that I can put down, somewhere, and then pick back up and be drawn into again.

And for a book with such an intricate, nested structure, I never feel lost when I start reading again. It's a really elegant piece of writing, and the author's imagination is gorgeous. I think sugarcoatedlie would like it. And jkason, possibly.

Comments

[dracoangelica.livejournal.com]

OOOOH! A Tough Guide to Fantasyland!!!

I'm jealous.

Woot for new books. Boo on headaches. I'm glad you survived your vacation!

[stotangirl.livejournal.com]

I know--it was out of print for, like, ever, so I snatched it up as soon as I saw it. They re-issued it in a YA format.

I am glad to have survived vacation, too. :)