Somehow I expected this book to be exceedingly massive. People have always spoken of this volume with such awe. It seems a quick read. David tells me it's exceedingly dense. I'm actually looking forward to starting it. Perhaps I will begin with this one.
On second thoughts, perhaps I should start with Piers Morgans The Insider. This looks like a completely ridiculous piece of trash. The private diaries of a scandalous decade....! Oh pur-lease....! It's a shame the libraries have a self service checkout nowadays. I mean, I borrowed this volume along with Stephen Hawking's.
I've decided I will focus on 1 book a day. Then I will switch to another volume and keep changing until I get to the same day on the following week. Then I go back to my first book. I can allow myself approximately 3.5 days on each book. Some books I'm figuring will take less. I'm hoping not many will take more. I'm getting worried, of course. I see myself staying up all night forcing myself to finish the 700+ pagers in precisely 3.5 days. That's just silly though. I'm not that obsessively compulsive a person... am I?
David has just commented about how hard I hit the keys on my laptop whilst typing and has also surmised that this is why my fingers get sore. I don't recall complaining about my fingers getting sore before. My back gets sore, goodness... I think I've complained about nearly everything getting sore but I cannot remember mentioning my fingers before...? Perhaps he is just jealous because I can type over 100 words per minute. Actually, now that I think of it, the only time my fingers get sore is when I don't type regularly. Yet now that I'm thinking about it my fingers are starting to get sore. Dammit! Clearly he's a witch.
It is very quiet in our kitchen tonight, normally we have some background music playing so maybe this is why it is sounding like I am hitting the keys very hard.... and there I go again, obsessing about something that David just mentioned in passing. . Clearly it's time for bed. Which is a good thing, because I really have to finish The Hollow Hills before the stroke of midnight. Only 100 pages left to go....
.......and then it's onto an item from the list!
Andrea says that I always hit the keys really hard too...so much so that she tries to avoid letting me use her computer as much as she can. She thinks that I'm going to break it.
ReplyDeleteIf you find that you are running behind and need some books that will force you to buy some days, try checking out Charles Stross' "The Atrocity Archives," the first volume of his Laundry series. There are six or seven total in the book, and when I read them, I think I went through one per day.
Och Mr Gross, I definitely need to read this one: "spycraft, alternative universes, dimension-hopping nazis, Middle Eastern terrorists, damsels in distress, ancient Lovecraftian horror and the end of the world." Sounds like my kind of read :-)
DeleteJust another note. While I do believe that a certain kind of union between two people elides certain elements of their individuality and makes their respective I's into a corporate "we," I'm not sure how blogspot has decided that I am Andrea and David Gross, and not just David Gross...
ReplyDeleteHe has complained about sore fingers before and the harsh typing is linked to the posture and all the other pains. And I am certainly not jealous of his typing speed. I do quite well for a self taught man. In fact it is something I often praise him for.
ReplyDeleteDaniel needs to understand that the loud incessant noise another person makes is not as pleasant to the listener and may even be silent to the creator.
And yes he is rather CDO but I love him anyway even when such CDO behaviours as this one sees him bury himself in his own world with little room for others. :)
We see you and Andrea as separate beings Mr. Gross regardless of what the computer says.
Truly he isn't jealous of my typing speed, this is my quirky attempt at humour - although why I bother I'm not that certain, nobody but myself finds it funny!!
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