In which Sky falls down some stairs.

[cerulean_sky]

• I have been telling myself that I should post here every night for at least two weeks, I swear. And then I get distracted by something, or I put it off for the night telling myself I'll do it the next night... And we all know how that goes. But now I am updating my Kindle and the Boyfriend is working out for the next hour or so, so I might as well buckle down and actually let you all know I'm alive.

• I am. For the record. Alive, that is.

• Speaking of the Boyfriend, we've basically been living together for the last three weeks (he picked me up from the airport the day I got home from NYC and spent the night and then never went home) and it's really lovely. Things are still awesome, he's still awesome and amazing, and I am still happy. So yay! (Though, I forget to do things that I usually do in the solitude of night. Which is mostly journaling stuff. I haven't written in my paper journal for weeks either.)

• Also for the record: the trip home from NYC was fraught and full of annoyances and terribleness. That is all.

• I tripped and fell down some stairs the other (last Thursday) night, and rolled my ankle in the process. It's still a bit swollen and I still can't walk around all day on it, though I don't think I've done more than pull some muscles and bruise myself. Still, it's the worst injury I've done to my ankles in a really long time, and I am deeply, deeply annoyed with myself.

• Kindle is still awesome. I read Deborah Harkness's A Discovery of Witches, which was tons of fun, and I am currently reading an advance copy of the sequel, Shadow of Night, which is awesome. On the other hand, these books are sort of long and dense, so I am not adding a whole lot of numbers/entries to my "Books I've Read This Year" list. I've decided to be ok with this. Next up on the reading list is Holly Black's Black Heart and Jim Butcher's first Dresden Files book. I also think I ought to finish Anne Rice's The Wolf Gift, if only because I started it and I would like to be able to say that I've read an Anne Rice book that's not part of her filthy porno trilogy.

• School will be drawing to a close soon, and I register for next semester's classes tomorrow, and I am super excited because I will have an amazing schedule. Five classes, four of which only meet once a week; two classes on Monday, two classes on Tuesday, one class on Wednesday, one class on Thursday and no classes on Friday; nothing earlier than 9:15am; and three writing classes and two literature classes. It's going to be awesome. Also: three day weekends! Whoohoo!

That's really all I have to say right now. C:

Comments

[mythicgeek]

Whatever you do, don't judge the Dresden files by book 1 or even book 2. Book 3 is where it gets good at at that point you find yourself hooked enough to need to know what happens next. If I didn't have numerous people tell me book 3 is where he learned to write and be interesting with Harry (who can be difficult to like), I would have given up early and then missed out. There are some great characters and plot points later on in the series; it's worth it to get there.

[cerulean_sky]

Other people have mentioned that too. It is not encouraging. :/

[mythicgeek]

All I'm saying is don't call it quits before the end of book 3. If after book 3 you're not hooked, then sure, maybe it's not your cup of tea. But Butcher definitely got off to a slow start and everyone who loves the series, that I know of, universally thinks the first two were very slow. It's as though he didn't really know how to be interesting while setting the stage, so he just set the stage.

Hell I'd almost suggest reading the wiki pages for the first two and then picking up book three.

[cerulean_sky]

I'll give the first two a try before I go to the wiki pages. If nothing else, they are numbers in my "Books I've Read This Year" list.

And I am curious, as I watched part of the series and liked the general principle.

[mythicgeek]

This is true!

Meanwhile I've heard nothing good about the TV series from the fans of the book series.

[cerulean_sky]

I've heard that too, which is also not encouraging. Even though I was iffy on Dresden as a character in the series, I still thought the actor did a pretty good job of it and I liked the idea of a modern day wizard. So maybe that's enough to get me interested in the books. (And I somehow managed to get my hands on the whole series, so I might as well see what the fuss is all about.)

[mythicgeek]

Meanwhile I dislike the casting of the actor for Harry (way too old, at least in the beginning of the series), though I supposed he was well enough cast if you wanted to play up Harry's douche-factor. The modern-day wizard bit is good in both, and that's what drew me too. I also read a couple other modern-day wizard books, including the one I'm in now, which has a female sorcerer as the lead. (And that's why I read the series too. Managed to get them all in e-book format shortly after I got a kindle fire, so I figured why not?)

[cerulean_sky]

I also read Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson series and her Alpha and Omega series, which are about werewolves in modern day (and other assorted magical creatures) and that's really awesome. But on the other hand, I also read the Anita Blake books which are hilariously bad. So it's sort of a toss up in terms of what is going to get me to read books, I think.

Still, I'm definitely going to give the Dresden series a try, because I know a bunch of people who read them and like them.

[mythicgeek]

LOL I actually haven't read any of those, but I'll look into Patricia Brigg. I'm...not touching Anita Blake with a ten-foot pole. I'm just glad for Goodreads because I'm keeping much better track now of what I'm reading, plus I'm reading a ton more now.

Let me know what you think about Dresden!

[cerulean_sky]

I think you would like the Mercy Thompson stuff. Mercy is a feisty coyote skinwalker in living next door to a werewolf alpha. It's awesome and hilarious and great plot and Mercy is definitely one of my favorite female characters.

[mythicgeek]

I definitely need more skinwalkers in my life :)