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May. 29th, 2019 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. It's finally raining. Or rather pouring. The sky opened up and let loose. It's thundering in the background -- either that or someone is stomping about above me...I'm thinking it actually might be the latter.
And my sick sinus headache from hell has finally abated. (Damn barometric pressure has been killing me lately.) I've been struggling with it all day long. Trying to keep it from becoming a migraine or worse a vertigo migraine, which is what untreated sinus headaches from hell will become. To head it off at the pass, used the neti pot in the shower at 6AM, at 6:30 am took two tylenol sinuse + headache tablets, and then two more at 12 noon. Then at 1PM took a clartain. And put some ice on the back of my neck. It was still there, hanging out in the background coming and going...When I got home, I gave up and took an Aleve. And meditated. It's finally, finally gone. Along with a horrible chest cough accompanying it.
I can't decide if I'm getting sick, or if this funky weather is making me sick? It was 70 degrees this morning and now it's 64 degrees. Last night it went from 64 degrees to 80 degrees -- hence the severe thunderstorms. Then down again. That's what it has been doing here lately jumping from about 60 degree to 80 degrees, then back again.
Also, I am allergic to practically everything -- particularly mold, dust and tree pollan (also apparently cockroaches, feathers, cats and dogs...). Yes, I found the cockroaches odd too. I'm thinking maybe I should leave NYC when I retire and find a mountain cabin somewhere. Of course then I'd need to drive, and there'd most likely be spiders...so maybe not.
Anyhow, as you can well imagine -- headache made me more irritable than usual. But it is blessedly gone now -- and I am so grateful!
2. Reading Meme...
I am halfway through Where'd You Go, Bernadette, which has been adapted into a movie directed by Linklater, starring Cate Blanchette, Kristin Wigg, Billy Crudup and Laurence Fishbourne. The book is better than expected. It's a feminist satire on well our society -- specifically Seattle, Microsoft, and the suburbs. Told in an interesting and rather innovative style, and reads a bit like a puzzle. The narrative structure is fascinating to me -- because it is the narrator (Bernadett's daughter) trying to understand what happened with her mother by riffling through all the correspondence, news clippings, emails, etc regarding her mother.
So you have to work a bit -- the writer doesn't really tell you what is happening in a straight forward manner, yet you figure it out. I'm not sure how they've made a movie out of this -- 85% of the appeal of the novel is the narrative structure.
Anyhow, I've also bought more books on the Kindle. I know, I need to stop. Most have been gifts courtesy of my mother -- she gave me a gift certificate to Amazon for my birthday -- which resulted in four Kindle books, a foldable and travel worthy yoga mat, and a yoga carry case. Mainly because I've decided to take yoga classes and cart the mats around with me like everyone else. Also decided to maybe go on yoga and wellness trips. Yoga is the only exercise I've found that helps my back and sciatic nerve. When I do it. That is.
Other books?
* Where The Crawdads Sing. Ordered from Library, but the waiting list is long. So gave up and got it as a birthday gift.
* The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - it was a Kindle Daily Deal. Got it for $1.99 (now it's 8.99...which is why I keep buying books - I can't pass up a good deal.)
* The Widows of Malabra Hill -- sort of fell into the same category --- the Kindle Daily deal had been for $1.99
* Rogue by Night by Kelly Bowen -- was a good price for pre-order. Also I loved the review on Smart Bitches.
And my sick sinus headache from hell has finally abated. (Damn barometric pressure has been killing me lately.) I've been struggling with it all day long. Trying to keep it from becoming a migraine or worse a vertigo migraine, which is what untreated sinus headaches from hell will become. To head it off at the pass, used the neti pot in the shower at 6AM, at 6:30 am took two tylenol sinuse + headache tablets, and then two more at 12 noon. Then at 1PM took a clartain. And put some ice on the back of my neck. It was still there, hanging out in the background coming and going...When I got home, I gave up and took an Aleve. And meditated. It's finally, finally gone. Along with a horrible chest cough accompanying it.
I can't decide if I'm getting sick, or if this funky weather is making me sick? It was 70 degrees this morning and now it's 64 degrees. Last night it went from 64 degrees to 80 degrees -- hence the severe thunderstorms. Then down again. That's what it has been doing here lately jumping from about 60 degree to 80 degrees, then back again.
Also, I am allergic to practically everything -- particularly mold, dust and tree pollan (also apparently cockroaches, feathers, cats and dogs...). Yes, I found the cockroaches odd too. I'm thinking maybe I should leave NYC when I retire and find a mountain cabin somewhere. Of course then I'd need to drive, and there'd most likely be spiders...so maybe not.
Anyhow, as you can well imagine -- headache made me more irritable than usual. But it is blessedly gone now -- and I am so grateful!
2. Reading Meme...
I am halfway through Where'd You Go, Bernadette, which has been adapted into a movie directed by Linklater, starring Cate Blanchette, Kristin Wigg, Billy Crudup and Laurence Fishbourne. The book is better than expected. It's a feminist satire on well our society -- specifically Seattle, Microsoft, and the suburbs. Told in an interesting and rather innovative style, and reads a bit like a puzzle. The narrative structure is fascinating to me -- because it is the narrator (Bernadett's daughter) trying to understand what happened with her mother by riffling through all the correspondence, news clippings, emails, etc regarding her mother.
So you have to work a bit -- the writer doesn't really tell you what is happening in a straight forward manner, yet you figure it out. I'm not sure how they've made a movie out of this -- 85% of the appeal of the novel is the narrative structure.
Anyhow, I've also bought more books on the Kindle. I know, I need to stop. Most have been gifts courtesy of my mother -- she gave me a gift certificate to Amazon for my birthday -- which resulted in four Kindle books, a foldable and travel worthy yoga mat, and a yoga carry case. Mainly because I've decided to take yoga classes and cart the mats around with me like everyone else. Also decided to maybe go on yoga and wellness trips. Yoga is the only exercise I've found that helps my back and sciatic nerve. When I do it. That is.
Other books?
* Where The Crawdads Sing. Ordered from Library, but the waiting list is long. So gave up and got it as a birthday gift.
* The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon - it was a Kindle Daily Deal. Got it for $1.99 (now it's 8.99...which is why I keep buying books - I can't pass up a good deal.)
* The Widows of Malabra Hill -- sort of fell into the same category --- the Kindle Daily deal had been for $1.99
* Rogue by Night by Kelly Bowen -- was a good price for pre-order. Also I loved the review on Smart Bitches.
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Date: 2019-05-30 12:05 am (UTC)I'm reading a new novella in the Avery Cates series by Jeffrey Somers. I love that series.
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Date: 2019-05-30 12:41 am (UTC)Yes, the headache is gone now. Very happy. When they dip into vertigo...it's when I just begin to think -- kill me now.
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Date: 2019-05-30 02:40 am (UTC)WE ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE is a great urban fantasy, and he has a bunch of novellas based on the book that are e-books. Avery Cates is in THE ELECTRIC CHURCH, THE DIGITAL PLAGUE, and THE ETERNAL PRISON. Then there are two series of novellas. The first series is collected in THE SHATTERED GEARS: Omnibus, and there's a new one that just started (I forget the overall name), but the first novella is THE NEW WORLD.
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