Feeling really low today and didn’t get what I wanted to do done, but I did get paid earlier than usual which was good. But more importantly, today I finished reading Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights today, just whistled through the second half, spent the whole afternoon in bed reading it because, well, I didn’t feel like doing anything else. Plus my medication has been making me feel really nauseous which has been no fun and has meant that I can’t have anything for supper.
Well, I thoroughly enjoyed Northern Lights, it’s way better than Harry Potter (that might be a contentious issue…) and wish I had the second book already so I could start reading it immediately after I finished the first one. It must be pretty good for me to have read it so voraciously and to want to continue reading the second one straight after. I didn’t exactly feel that way about Christopher Paolini’s Eragon though I do want to read the sequel Eldest and see what that’s all about.
I also got a book the other day from my housemate’s girlfriend entitled Yoga For Cats. It’s pretty funny and it does genuinely have (cartoon) cats doing actual yoga poses! They even have the Sanskrit names for them which I thought was pretty impressive.
Now what to read next? Either the next Jasper Fforde novel or one I’ve borrowed from my housemate which he has neglected to read. Or Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf? But I’m already reading Sylvia Plath’s collected poetry, another book of poetry might be hard going…always so hard to decide what to read! Actually, I was hoping to read yet another fragrance diary entry of The Fragrant Elf’s but alas she hasn’t posted another entry just yet.
Violent_Kitten | 26-Jan-08 at 12:54 pm | Permalink
Philip Pullman…is he of Golden Compass? I’m too lazy to open up another page to Google him! I think I saw his books the other day and was intrigued. I STILL haven’t finished that perfume travel book though and have my Walter Moers books next up! Am hopeless. I just stopped reading again for some reason. Must get back into it, stop doing so much perfumey stuff (well, not stop too much), my to do lists (and not doing them) and searching for Tokidoki bags!
I saw that Yoga For Cats book I think! I didn’t like the cartoons though, the cat was an odd shape and put me off. Yeah, I’m weird!
Grace Notes @ Snarkattack | 26-Jan-08 at 2:52 pm | Permalink
That’s the Philip Pullman! In America they call Northern Lights The Golden Compass for some odd reason.
I thought you would have gobbled up that fragrance travel book, like I did, hehe! I go through stages of not reading too, so I wouldn’t worry too much, I think it happens to us all.
I got the Yoga For Cats book as a present from my housemate’s girlfriend because she knows I adore cats which was sweet I thought. I can’t believe they actually had the cats doing the actual yoga poses, I thought it was impressive alone on that front!