grrr

[afuna]

I want to watch TV to put me to sleep, but I also cannot bear to listen to any sound right now, and I don't have the concentration to pick up a book.

Grrr, grrr, grrr!

Maybe if I run around and flap my wings I shall get tired and fall asleep *G*

ETA:
Oh no!

I dropped by the bookstore today, and got books. And I was so *insufferably* smug, because I had managed to fill in a couple of series that I had had the later books of, but not the earlier ones. (I have Howl's Moving Castle right now! I have had Castle in the Air for over a year, and been unable to read it because I couldn't get my hands on a copy of the first *G*)

And I got the first two books of the Westmark Trilogy by Lloyd Alexander, because I thought that I needed them to fill in the trilogy. And it turns out I don't have the third book anywhere O_O so now I must find the third book now!

(I. I kind of want to read the first two books, though, just because I loved his other series, the Chronicles of Prydain, so much? So I'm hoping these at least are decent.)

I feel like such a dork *rueful*

Ah well, I did at least get two more books by Garth Nix: The Ragwitch, and Shade's Children. I wanted Keys to the Kingdom, but they only had the fifth and sixth books so I decided not to (and please note again that I was *so* *very* *smug* while doing so, because I was avoiding the trap of another incomplete series on my shelves)

I feel like such a complete and utter dork ;_;

OTOH: books \o/

And hm. Maybe I can read something light, even though my concentration is all shot. I would rather be coding, but in my current state of mind, I would probably do something ridiculous :D

Comments

[branchandroot]

I liked Westmark a lot, but it does suffer from a conflict of priorities. I think Alexander really wanted to write gritty historical fiction about (very loosely) the French Revolution, but he was using the template of heroic youth adventure to do it. And the two kind of clash. So there's a bit of a tug of war between the heroic and very personally focused thread and the gritty historical thread. But I still liked them.

[afuna]

Ahh, hmm. And that kind of thing does sound like it worked better with the more pseudo-medieval/epic atmosphere of the Chronicles of Prydain.

[kerravonsen]

Howl's Moving Castle is much better than Castle in the Air. I'd even suggest you skip Castle in the Air and go straight on to House of Many Ways if you can find it.

[afuna]

Oh! That sparked a memory, and I just found House of Many Ways way over at the back of my bookshelf. Thanks for the info *G* I suspect that otherwise, I wouldn't have managed to connect the three at all.

[azurelunatic]

Booooooks.

[afuna]

Booooks yes. Glorious wonderful books *G_*