Things To End When I am in Charge: Item One - Colds

Dear everyone, *cough, cough* the cold virus decided to make a liar of all my ‘I’m fine’ comments, which means you find me seriously miserable and full of cold again. The really bad bit is over (last Wednesday night I went from alright to tender and awful in about ten minutes), my throat is better, but there’s nothing nice about blowing your nose fifty times a day #oversharing. The worst of it is I had some time off sick the first time I was ill and so now I have to go to work unless I can’t stand up/ insert other horrible non-work appropriate things you can think of. These things have not happened (which despite being at work, folding leaflets, feeling like my head might pop I am glad of that) so to the office I go armed with blackcurrant Lemsip until I am better.

I have been working on writing things elsewhere in the last few days, but I haven’t had the inclination to also write reviews. I finished ‘Shipbreaker’ (awesome), ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ (also awesome) and am halfway through Behemoth (guess what, again it is awesome). There’s more I’ll be saying about each title when I review them and each review will not be just ‘I liked it a bunch, squee’ but right now my easy to type in one sentence feeling is that young adult sci-fi adventure where both boys and girls get to go adventuring is a trend it might take a long time to tire of.

Hopefully I’ll be better soon and I’ll get something up on the Nebula contenders for The Booksmuggler’s readalong this weekend. Until then if any of you in the UK fancy a lend of my copy of ‘Shipbreaker’ let me know and I’ll send it on, it’s good, fantasy violent fun with a narrator I wish was getting a sequel.