What I Didn't Read
Lately, I've been picking up books, just to put them back down. I blame part of that on The Discovery of Witches , which I enjoyed greatly (and will review in the near future). The rest I blame on bad books. To be fair, not all of them have been "bad" in the traditional "wish to rip out your eyeballs to save your soul" kind of way, but perhaps unsuitable for the time being: I knew Game of Thrones was too heavy for my brain right now, and I will pick it up after the library is settled. I already read Geek Love at a different time in my life, when I could handle the story of a family of people purposely bred to be born with bizarre, extreme birth defects. I couldn't wait to read about the Unseen University in Unseen Academicals , but I put it away after a few pages. I blame that on a sinus headache. Others, however, were. I must be the last person to read The Hunger Games — well, almost read it. After about 20 pages, I had to stop. The lead ...