Books and naps
I spend a lot of time feeling tired. I think this because I have stopped having afternoon naps, which were once one of my favourite parts of the days. Ah well, I have been sleeping a lot the past few days.
As per usual for Christmas, I got several books. Also as per usual, I have now read most of them.
A month or two ago I bought a book called The Way Of Shadows by Brent Weeks, which was the first in a trilogy. It was very good. Highly recommended if you like assassins and treason and treachery and magic and all that standard fantasy novel stuff, but given a different twist. People die, bad things happen and punches are not pulled. I received the second and third books as a present for Christmas, and have devoured them both already, though admittedly, I am rereading the third one, as it is by far and away the best of the three in my opinion.
I also got Neal Asher’s collection of short stories – The Gabble. The thing that annoys me about anything that Neal Asher writes is that there is never enough of it. His novels are not short, but I always feel they could be longer. I still think he is the one of the greatest tellers of stories and constructors of worlds I have ever come across, but I always wish that certain areas were expanded on. However, these stories felt right. There was enough to them to explain them but not so much that you expected more. Very good. On a total aside, my dog has only ever chewed two books, both of which were written by Neal Asher.
Speaking of dogs, I am going to feed mine now. She has spent all day in the garden running like a loon and is looking decidedly tired. Which is always good!
