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Week almost over--whew!
Apr. 30th, 2010 09:25 amIt was the Week of the Bird, Week of the House Showing, Week of the Termite Inspection, and Week of Roseola--ack! One more showing tomorrow, and then oh please oh please someone rent this house so it will stop! But at least the roseola is nearly over. I guess that's what PMB has had. Starting Saturday night he had three days of high fever (tylenol did nothing) with even some jerky movement in the night that now in retrospect I wonder if it was febrile convulsions, common with this illness. Then when the fever went away, he broke out in a rash. Doctors claim that it's all over then, that the rash doesn't bother them and everything's cheery. Obviously they've never had to live with a kid with roseola! Because something bothers them! Everyone I could find on the internet talked about how extremely irritable their sweet cherub was, and man oh man is that true. But sometime midway through last night the wakiness stopped and PMB settled down to sleep for real--the first time since Saturday--and this morning he woke up with a real smile. So I am so glad!! I don't think I can stay up one night more!
Books--I finished reading Howl's Moving Castle with the girls. It's a great book for reading aloud--I love the banter back and forth between Howl and Sophie. I didn't like the book at all when I read it as a teen, but then I reread it as an adult and now I love it. Funny how that happens. I'm not even sure I know why I didn't like it--maybe I didn't pick up on Howl's sympathetic side? And the ending is a little confusing, too. What was the curse supposed to do, exactly? But overall I like it.
Then I reread Brightly Woven, by Alexandra Bracken, because it reminds me of Howl and I wasn't quite done with reading about adventurous wizards. I really like how the author uses her own background (she's from Arizona) in the story. It makes it feel quite real and fresh.
Now I'm reading Catherine Fisher's Incarceron. It's chilling and dystopian, so if you like that sort of thing, you'll probably like this. Not anywhere near as violent as Hunger Games, but compelling in much the same way. I find that dystopian novels don't fill me much--I want to be in a world when I read, but the world I want to be in usually does not look dystopian!--butevery now and then I can still enjoy one.
What about you? What have you been reading?
Books--I finished reading Howl's Moving Castle with the girls. It's a great book for reading aloud--I love the banter back and forth between Howl and Sophie. I didn't like the book at all when I read it as a teen, but then I reread it as an adult and now I love it. Funny how that happens. I'm not even sure I know why I didn't like it--maybe I didn't pick up on Howl's sympathetic side? And the ending is a little confusing, too. What was the curse supposed to do, exactly? But overall I like it.
Then I reread Brightly Woven, by Alexandra Bracken, because it reminds me of Howl and I wasn't quite done with reading about adventurous wizards. I really like how the author uses her own background (she's from Arizona) in the story. It makes it feel quite real and fresh.
Now I'm reading Catherine Fisher's Incarceron. It's chilling and dystopian, so if you like that sort of thing, you'll probably like this. Not anywhere near as violent as Hunger Games, but compelling in much the same way. I find that dystopian novels don't fill me much--I want to be in a world when I read, but the world I want to be in usually does not look dystopian!--butevery now and then I can still enjoy one.
What about you? What have you been reading?
