Dear everyone, *cough, cough* the cold virus decided to make a liar of all my ‘I’m fine’ comments, which means you find me seriously miserable and full of cold again. The really bad bit is over (last Wednesday night I went from alright to tender and awful in about ten minutes), my throat is better, but there’s nothing nice about blowing your nose fifty times a day #oversharing. The worst of it is I had some time off sick the first time I was ill and so now I have to go to work unless I can’t stand up/ insert other horrible non-work appropriate things you can think of. These things have not happened (which despite being at work, folding leaflets, feeling like my head might pop I am glad of that) so to the office I go armed with blackcurrant Lemsip until I am better.
I have been working on writing things elsewhere in the last few days, but I haven’t had the inclination to also write reviews. I finished ‘Shipbreaker’ (awesome), ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ (also awesome) and am halfway through Behemoth (guess what, again it is awesome). There’s more I’ll be saying about each title when I review them and each review will not be just ‘I liked it a bunch, squee’ but right now my easy to type in one sentence feeling is that young adult sci-fi adventure where both boys and girls get to go adventuring is a trend it might take a long time to tire of.
Hopefully I’ll be better soon and I’ll get something up on the Nebula contenders for The Booksmuggler’s readalong this weekend. Until then if any of you in the UK fancy a lend of my copy of ‘Shipbreaker’ let me know and I’ll send it on, it’s good, fantasy violent fun with a narrator I wish was getting a sequel.
10 comments:
Stoopid colds. Hope you feel better soon!
Oh no - that is awful. I definitely favour the blackcurrant Lemsip over the lemon one too though, and don't you think it should be called Blacksip?
Oh noes. Sorry you are feeling rubbish - fluey colds are the pits. I strongly recommend Night Nurse! Absolutely agree should immediately re-brand non-lemony lemsip to Blacksip. Might even buy it then as I do hate the lemony one.
So glad you enjoyed Knife of Never Letting Go and, like you, I am never bored of reading adventure stories so will have to add Shipbreaker / Behemoth to my library wishlist. Speaking of which, I will wait until you are feeling better to tell you about the awful thing that happened last week when I walked past a Red Nose day book sale at work...
Odd coincidence: I gave a huge sneeze *just* as I was bringing your blog up on my browser. I'm not sick, just experiencing random (no doubt pollen-related) sneezes lately. Spring colds are awful. Take good care of yourself! And thank you for reminding me of Behemoth; that needs to go on my queue.
Oh, God, I'm hoping so much that colds will pass me by this season. I HATE THEM. I wish you lots of orange juice to heal you! Also, Rhinocort Aqua was like magic last time I had a cold.
Here's some virtual chicken soup for you--
In March the wind blows down the door; it spills my soup and roars for more.
(That was from memory, and occasionally there's a little word slippage.)
Feel better soon!
Poor Jodie! We have all had bugs recently - there's clearly something powerful going about. DO hope you feel better soon - lots of vitamin c and zinc and fluids and comfort, etc.
Sorry about your cold! I hope you're all better now. That sounds no fun at all :(
hope you feel better now, I hate colds too!
and yay for another fan of The knife of never letting go :)
Post a Comment