Yes indeed. With the warm weather comes the unavoidable "To do" list. So I've really done nothing but fight my annual war with the weeds, wonder who's going to buy the house next door (and now that I know I want to move), write, level my Druid who is my new favorite character of all time (Rawr I'm a bear!), and look at all my books but not have the time or energy to read one.
Then along came overtime. What with the pool of doom needing financing I threw on my poly-awesome work clothes and sat for 8 hours reading a book.
It was glorious!!!
The Bell at Sealy Head by Patricia McKillip was just what I needed to jump back into reading. (Truth be told reading Steven Erikson's Toll the Hounds took alot out of me. Sometimes that series is just brutal and I need to hold something nice and cuddly afterwards. I'm sure Jupitor is less amused than I am about the whole thing.)
It was like reading a fairy tale without the weirdo stuff. There was talk of books in the book (a sure way to keep me hooked) and most of all there were characters. Not names but actual characters you could tell apart instantly from the text, characters I rooted for and ones who I boo'd at quietly. I wouldn't say the story of a house within a house and worlds trapped within other worlds spoke to the child in me but I was hooked, came home exhausted and stayed up to finish reading it.
Some books I get from the library I love and then ship them back off to the home. Some I stop after a few chapters and just go bleh. Some I stop because I want to buy them and read them again. The Bell at Sealy Head will be purchased because I think when the fall comes and I am once again stuck in my house on a cold rainy November afternoon the people in that little coastal town will help the day and night fly by.
In short I recommend it! Highly! Ooooooo pretty book!
Then along came overtime. What with the pool of doom needing financing I threw on my poly-awesome work clothes and sat for 8 hours reading a book.
It was glorious!!!
The Bell at Sealy Head by Patricia McKillip was just what I needed to jump back into reading. (Truth be told reading Steven Erikson's Toll the Hounds took alot out of me. Sometimes that series is just brutal and I need to hold something nice and cuddly afterwards. I'm sure Jupitor is less amused than I am about the whole thing.)
It was like reading a fairy tale without the weirdo stuff. There was talk of books in the book (a sure way to keep me hooked) and most of all there were characters. Not names but actual characters you could tell apart instantly from the text, characters I rooted for and ones who I boo'd at quietly. I wouldn't say the story of a house within a house and worlds trapped within other worlds spoke to the child in me but I was hooked, came home exhausted and stayed up to finish reading it.
Some books I get from the library I love and then ship them back off to the home. Some I stop after a few chapters and just go bleh. Some I stop because I want to buy them and read them again. The Bell at Sealy Head will be purchased because I think when the fall comes and I am once again stuck in my house on a cold rainy November afternoon the people in that little coastal town will help the day and night fly by.
In short I recommend it! Highly! Ooooooo pretty book!
