Last night I did read

I’ve been coming home and going to bed for a couple of hours, then getting up and coming down for something to eat. I’ve made it through the week because of this, and next week I’m off every day except Tuesday, so I should be able to recharge then.

Last night I read books. I read

Priestess of the White (Age of the Five) which is a jolly good yarn, reminds me of Raymond Feist this one, though there isn’t as much characterisation, or quite as much anything (his books do run to dense, don’t they?). Well worth a read, I’ve read her first trilogy too, think I’ve reviewed on here previously. Came downstairs when I was done and requested the next two – I do like free reservations on the library website 🙂

Then I found a pile of books next to the bed that I was planning on prereading before dropping off in children’s rooms. (And yes, I do consider myself to have two reading children now – Small can’t really be stopped, and it’s fab to watch him improving every day, or nearly every minute really :grin:) There was Bearstone which I really rather enjoyed – a coming of age drama for a young Indian boy in America, absolutely no idea how plausible it is, but there you go.

Then Gulf. Not one for the easily scared (not that it’s desperately scary in a horror sort of way, but the central idea is one that could give you shivers down your spine), and I did find it quite depressing, but then again it isn’t meant to be cheering I don’t think. Well worth reading though, and will be finding its way on a children’s bookshelf very soon.

And tonight I got a promotional email from some mailing list or other and it was advertising Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart which I really like the look of. And I followed a link on the website that it came from and found The Poetry of Zen (Shambhala Library) which looked rather excellent too. I’m wondering about some kind of meditation or calming techniques for Big – she is extremely quick to extremes of emotion atm, and I feel she could do with some help with control, but I don’t know whether meditation or poetry would work. Breathing doesn’t seem to 🙁 Still, if it didn’t help her, maybe it would help me ignore the screaming?