Confessions...

[shadowkat]

Okay I should be working on my novel, but am stuck. Again. Also the novel I'm reading is calling to me - part of me really just wants to sink into my couch with a nice big milkshake and read all day. This George RR Martin book I'm reading? Delicious book. Reading it is a bit like ordering a huge ice cream sundae for your brain. One just wants to fall into it. Haven't read a book I wanted to literally escape inside of since the Lymond Chronicles. Although Hyperion came close. Oh and having a book store beneath my work place is a dangerous thing. Yesterday at lunch, I bought another book that I'd begun to lust after. Wales thinks I should try the library, which is also nearby, as in across the street. But libraries take more time, also the books are dusty, I have a limited time to read them before I have to return them, and well I have to give them back when I'm finished with them. Also I love my books to death. I lug them about with me when I travel, so they get wet or rumpled at times.
As a child I remember actually sleeping with a stack of them. I think I thought that by sleeping with them, I could sink into them by osmosis or that they'd keep me safe somehow.

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[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I'll have to get the Martin books then! I'm halfway through Dunnett's Disorderly Knights and it is truly a delicious series.

The Martin books are easier to read than Dunnett.
Much less dense. Sort of like eating an ice cream sundae as opposed to a flourless chocolate cake.
Which is a good thing because they are also much longer. Game of Thrones - the shortest volume is about 896 pages (and it's a small paperback with small print). Clash of Kings - 936 pages. And Storm of Swords a little over a thousand. That's a lot of committment for one story.

On the other hand - it's a quick read. Moving pretty rapidly. Great characters and great writing. The writer - wrote the series Beauty and The Beast and a few of the Twilight Zone episodes.

The tale is dark and gritty, has aspects of supernatural and lots of sword play and court politics. Reminds me a bit of Dunnett, except the language isn't quite as dense, and there's magic.

'Kat it's too darn hot to be creative I say!

Very true. I ran errands today and almost melted.
Did work a few plot points out in my head while waiting in line to get movie tickets. But when I came home - I just didn't feel the urge to write them down, instead I ate a nectarine and read three chapters of the Martin book. It is a delicious book.
Nice and cool - like eating ice cream on a hot day.