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beansideYup, still here. Anxiety is still up. Still afraid to hope.
I'm so tired today. I know a lot of it is just stress, but I feel like I could go back to bed for hours. Ah well, more coffee.
Today shall be Great British Bake Off, which is always soothing. I'd say another episode of the Witcher, but I don't know that I can focus on plot today.
I picked up the second book in Rachel Caine's Great Library series, which was also $1.99. I know I said I was reading it again, but I don't know if I really recced it. It's set in a world where the Great Library of Alexandra never burned, and the Library has become a power unto itself. Knowledge is everything, and books are available to all via "mirroring." which is a lot like downloading it to a tablet. Physical books are not allowed, which of course means there's a black market operation for them. We follow Jess Brightwell, son of a well off book smuggler as his father sends him to be a Library student, in the hopes that he'll be well placed to help the family. It has cannon POC, including a Muslim student who is more than the sum of her religion, and a cannon gay couple. The series builds in scope and tension, and the final book had a satisfying ending. I listened to it on Audible first, and the narrator has a wonderful voice.
Now off for a day of doomscrolling.
I'm so tired today. I know a lot of it is just stress, but I feel like I could go back to bed for hours. Ah well, more coffee.
Today shall be Great British Bake Off, which is always soothing. I'd say another episode of the Witcher, but I don't know that I can focus on plot today.
I picked up the second book in Rachel Caine's Great Library series, which was also $1.99. I know I said I was reading it again, but I don't know if I really recced it. It's set in a world where the Great Library of Alexandra never burned, and the Library has become a power unto itself. Knowledge is everything, and books are available to all via "mirroring." which is a lot like downloading it to a tablet. Physical books are not allowed, which of course means there's a black market operation for them. We follow Jess Brightwell, son of a well off book smuggler as his father sends him to be a Library student, in the hopes that he'll be well placed to help the family. It has cannon POC, including a Muslim student who is more than the sum of her religion, and a cannon gay couple. The series builds in scope and tension, and the final book had a satisfying ending. I listened to it on Audible first, and the narrator has a wonderful voice.
Now off for a day of doomscrolling.
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Date: 2020-11-06 05:12 pm (UTC)Are you familiar with The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pullman?