As I come in from the drizzle I realise that it has been some time since I actually wrote an entry, in this or any blog. My life has, of late, been filled with all things work. I even had to give up Facebook for a while there. Sadly, I also had to give up reading.
I'm not sure if the "work project", as we'll call it, actually allows me to postpone the timing of this little reading project or whether I should just cancel the whole thing and just start reading any old book that crosses my path. Either way, I probably won't stop blogging about it. I will try to read 100 books though, before April next year. I think it's possible, especially now as the darkness descends upon us. Winter is coming, and it's probably time to finish those George R R Martin books (now hereby decreed added to "the list" because of necessity - the televised series has actually passed the place I got up to in the book!).
I've found another addendum to the list, a regular one that is give by our local library in Watford. I love this place, it's a pretty darn fine library to have on your doorstep and one of the positives about moving house is that we'll probably move closer to it. I've always wanted to be close enough to a large enough selection of books. Anyway, I've decided that any item that is marked as a "hot pick" is allowed on the list automatically. These are books that are (a) popular (b) reasonably short and (c) only allowed a 1 week loan. I have technically found a way of getting around this problem (by using the libraries automated return system one can simply re-borrow the book approximately 2 seconds after returning it) but I've also found another way of getting around this short loan period which is just to read the books very quickly. As quickly as possible.
Last week I borrowed Ian Banks' latest (and last, very sad to have to say) book - it really was fantastic and I will be sure to write a review about this beauty before long.
This week I borrowed a couple of books and I'm now well into the second one, so maybe next week I'll go for three of them and see if I can manage that for a few weeks. I've kind of lost count of how many books I've read so far, I'm sure a few will come back me, I know I didn't review all of the ones that I had read before I stopped and started spending every spare moment working (or simply relaxing and spending some time with our boy Zack, whose year with us is coming to an end now), but I wouldn't be surprised if I've still got about 80 books to read in just under six months if I'm to read 100 as I had originally planned to.
Anyway, it's late, I need to sleep because I'm about to change my shift again and start to work normal hours so my mornings won't be sleep filled but caffeine filled instead. I'll get to that review shortly.... Neil Gaiman.... yeah.... that was probably the one that broke the ice. A "hot pick" at the library - David spotted it as I was off paying my late fees at the library for all the books that I'd stopped reading because work was taking up all of my time. He read it in a day and I took about three but we managed to return the following week without need for a sneaky re-borrow.
But I digress again. It's late, I need to sleep. It was good though, that Gaiman book. REAL good - nay, pretty much excellent.
More on that later.
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