Ahem, not a newsflash but...
Mar. 18th, 2007 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vcmwSleep is good. I got 12.5 hours yesterday. Or maybe 13.
That's like, the equivalent of 3 of the 5 days before, added together. It felt so good. And then I was all loguey and didn't do much except dishes/groceries/dinner/homework/working out.
And that was good too. Read a book the proper way. (I don't think a book has really been enjoyed unless it's been read from cover to cover in one long swoosh. For fiction anyway. I can do 3pgs a minute, so I can finish most novels in 2-4 hours, and during summer vacation as a wee thing I used to go through 3 a day that way. Now I'm lucky if I can read a book cover to cover at a go maybe once or twice a month, and I positively jones for it.)
The book was "Already Dead" by Charlie Huston. Charlaine Harris said it would be good, and it was.
Very much a boys' vampire novel, though. I've read this one, the Matheson one (I am Legend), David Sosnowksi's one (Vamped) and the Jim Butcher ones (Harry Dresden Chronicles) and they definitely have a very different take on vampirism than women-written books do. It's noticeable.
On the book pimpage front, I was at a party for a few hours the other day, and ended up writing suggested reading lists for 3 people. One wanted children's fantasy recommendations for a paper, one wanted science fiction recommendations and web comics, and one was curious about black science fiction authors. It's a disease. I swear if I rolled down an alley I'd stand up covered in books and start handed them out to passersby.
That's like, the equivalent of 3 of the 5 days before, added together. It felt so good. And then I was all loguey and didn't do much except dishes/groceries/dinner/homework/working out.
And that was good too. Read a book the proper way. (I don't think a book has really been enjoyed unless it's been read from cover to cover in one long swoosh. For fiction anyway. I can do 3pgs a minute, so I can finish most novels in 2-4 hours, and during summer vacation as a wee thing I used to go through 3 a day that way. Now I'm lucky if I can read a book cover to cover at a go maybe once or twice a month, and I positively jones for it.)
The book was "Already Dead" by Charlie Huston. Charlaine Harris said it would be good, and it was.
Very much a boys' vampire novel, though. I've read this one, the Matheson one (I am Legend), David Sosnowksi's one (Vamped) and the Jim Butcher ones (Harry Dresden Chronicles) and they definitely have a very different take on vampirism than women-written books do. It's noticeable.
On the book pimpage front, I was at a party for a few hours the other day, and ended up writing suggested reading lists for 3 people. One wanted children's fantasy recommendations for a paper, one wanted science fiction recommendations and web comics, and one was curious about black science fiction authors. It's a disease. I swear if I rolled down an alley I'd stand up covered in books and start handed them out to passersby.
