![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Books I have been trying to read recently:
# Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher - this is a book about suicide. Mainly told from the POV of a boy, who idolises a girl, who is the one who took her life. It didn't make me as mad as I thought it might, but I expected to feel sympathy for the dead girl, but didn't, because she came across as a selfish, vindictive brat. I gave up after about a hundred pages (if that).
# Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase - I was listening to this on audiobook with my mum, and I actually enjoyed it. I say this, because I never would have picked it to listen to.
# Guilt Trip by Judith Cutler - another audiobook with mum. Didn't like this one (because, aside from anything else, the narrator seemed determined to read it at breakneck speed, which I didn't like). I felt like I was missing a lot, but there are three (?) books about the same character prior to this which I haven't read.
# Boy Meets Boy by David Leviathan - I lasted about ten pages before I threw this on the floor (which is why I didn't add it to my Goodreads). I didn't like the tone it was written in, and I didn't like some of the language used.
# I am now reading Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa. I have nothing to say about it yet, as I'm only sixty pages in, but I am enjoying it. I picked it up because the way I feel sometimes resonates with Mira, who is one of the main characters (it says on the back that some days she feels so shit she can't get out of bed and yup. I know that feel).
Most of the reviews on Goodreads seem to feel cheated that they were promised a bisexual love triangle, and they didn't get it (which is not a thing I would object to reading about - though I'd feel better if it were resolved by polyamory rather than being, uh, triangular). Which. The blurbs on the book must be different in the US, because I was promised none of that. I wanted to read it because of Mira, and because of Jeremy (who is an awkward art nerd, which I feel on a GRAND SCALE, and also it's not treated like he's some quirky, weird dude, which is REFRESHING, let me tell you).
Mostly, I'm expecting nothing from this book.
~
ENIGMA CAME IN THE POST THE OTHER DAY!!
It was a lot later than the email from the seller promised me, but it did come within the time frame specified by eBay, so I have no complaints (I guess). I had a flick through it, but didn't read it, and it is mostly as I remember.
I'm really looking forward to re-reading it, so I hope it lives up to my memories.
~
I got a big (30, as opposed to 14) pack of allergy tablets. They are the drowsy type (cetirizine), rather than the non-drowsy (loratidine, or however you spell it), which is what I usually get. The internet and the tablets claim they are not drowsy, but a glance at fucking_meds says otherwise.
These were the only ones available as a big pack, which is why I'm trying them. However, I also learnt on fucking_meds that you can build up a tolerance to loratidine, which I was starting to suspect anyway, as it was doing nothing for my hayfever. So if these work for me, that will be amazing.
(I know you can build up a tolerance to anything - but I don't take allergy meds apart from when I have hayfever, so I didn't think I'd have a tolerance to them).
~
I found a website I didn't even know I'd bookmarked, which generates a random melody shape for you. It can't play it for you, so I put into Musescore, and then found myself turning it into a tune.
I'm not finished with it yet - I think it needs some more fiddling with (like the end of it being less abrupt), but I think it is a viable piece of music? I hope it is, anyway.
# Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher - this is a book about suicide. Mainly told from the POV of a boy, who idolises a girl, who is the one who took her life. It didn't make me as mad as I thought it might, but I expected to feel sympathy for the dead girl, but didn't, because she came across as a selfish, vindictive brat. I gave up after about a hundred pages (if that).
# Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase - I was listening to this on audiobook with my mum, and I actually enjoyed it. I say this, because I never would have picked it to listen to.
# Guilt Trip by Judith Cutler - another audiobook with mum. Didn't like this one (because, aside from anything else, the narrator seemed determined to read it at breakneck speed, which I didn't like). I felt like I was missing a lot, but there are three (?) books about the same character prior to this which I haven't read.
# Boy Meets Boy by David Leviathan - I lasted about ten pages before I threw this on the floor (which is why I didn't add it to my Goodreads). I didn't like the tone it was written in, and I didn't like some of the language used.
# I am now reading Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa. I have nothing to say about it yet, as I'm only sixty pages in, but I am enjoying it. I picked it up because the way I feel sometimes resonates with Mira, who is one of the main characters (it says on the back that some days she feels so shit she can't get out of bed and yup. I know that feel).
Most of the reviews on Goodreads seem to feel cheated that they were promised a bisexual love triangle, and they didn't get it (which is not a thing I would object to reading about - though I'd feel better if it were resolved by polyamory rather than being, uh, triangular). Which. The blurbs on the book must be different in the US, because I was promised none of that. I wanted to read it because of Mira, and because of Jeremy (who is an awkward art nerd, which I feel on a GRAND SCALE, and also it's not treated like he's some quirky, weird dude, which is REFRESHING, let me tell you).
Mostly, I'm expecting nothing from this book.
~
ENIGMA CAME IN THE POST THE OTHER DAY!!
It was a lot later than the email from the seller promised me, but it did come within the time frame specified by eBay, so I have no complaints (I guess). I had a flick through it, but didn't read it, and it is mostly as I remember.
I'm really looking forward to re-reading it, so I hope it lives up to my memories.
~
I got a big (30, as opposed to 14) pack of allergy tablets. They are the drowsy type (cetirizine), rather than the non-drowsy (loratidine, or however you spell it), which is what I usually get. The internet and the tablets claim they are not drowsy, but a glance at fucking_meds says otherwise.
These were the only ones available as a big pack, which is why I'm trying them. However, I also learnt on fucking_meds that you can build up a tolerance to loratidine, which I was starting to suspect anyway, as it was doing nothing for my hayfever. So if these work for me, that will be amazing.
(I know you can build up a tolerance to anything - but I don't take allergy meds apart from when I have hayfever, so I didn't think I'd have a tolerance to them).
~
I found a website I didn't even know I'd bookmarked, which generates a random melody shape for you. It can't play it for you, so I put into Musescore, and then found myself turning it into a tune.
I'm not finished with it yet - I think it needs some more fiddling with (like the end of it being less abrupt), but I think it is a viable piece of music? I hope it is, anyway.