Here is where I’ll keeping my daily updates until the weekend comes and I stand an outside chance of getting to post my musings a little bit more frequently. My goals are hanging out here, if you fancy a nosey.
Thoughts from Monday (at 20.18): At about 10.00am, I was convinced that this would be the read-a-thon where I really nailed it. I’d listened to my audiobooks while getting ready instead of the radio, I’d had a bit of quality book time in my car after I’d parked up and before I went into work, I’d brought my lunch and was all ready to get stuck in to posting an update while I ate it and I was almost certain that I’d get away from work at a decent time and would gt time to read this evening. It didn’t quite work out like that – I remembered that I had to go and pick up some dry cleaning and some other bits and pieces over lunch and then had some work that had to get done and then it was somehow 6.00pm and I was still at work 😐 To be fair, I did manage to scarper not long after so that was a bonus and I’ve cooked and eaten a vegetable Thai curry with noodles with Boyfriend and now I’m ready to get settled in to The Girl from the Well before bedtime. Actually, I’m a bit wary of reading it before bed because of all the serial-killer-murdering-ghost stuff but we’ll brave it out and see how it goes…maybe I’ll be so freaked out that I won’t be able to sleep and will get it finished! On the plus side, I’m travelling by train to a meeting for work tomorrow so that’ll give me much more reading time than usual! Onward and upward, friends!
9.22pm: I got started on Parasite on my way home from a meeting this evening and I love it! It pretty much felt like I started it and then somehow I was 106 pages in and back in Leeds. The writing just works perfectly and the excerpts from scientific documents and articles at the beginnings of the chapters are…well, disturbing, actually, but otherwise just brilliant. So now I’m heading off to read some more! What are you all reading? Something awesome, I hope!
Friday: Ok, so I *may* have climbed into bed at 9.00pm to escape the chilliness and read but *may* have gotten too comfy and fallen asleep…
Thoughts from Friday: My listening seems to be going a lot better than my actual reading! Maybe that’s because I don’t really have a choice about driving to work so that hour and a half a day is pretty much banked to begin with. Blackbird House isn’t quite what I was expecting but I am enjoying it, I think. It’s seems to be a lot of short stories about people that all live in the same house over a couple of centuries. They’re all read by different narrators, though, which I like, even if it is a bit random so far. I am in love with Parasite – I may or may not be going out for drinks this evening and if I’m not, I’m grabbing a glass of wine and curling up to read some more. How are we all doing before the weekend comes and we can be free of pesky work demands?