I have in my possession A Dance with Dragons.
I was leaving the house on the way to work and saw it there, in its cardboard box and shoved it in the car with me, opening the package while driving as you do when you are crazy, impatient, and crazily impatient. The cover, so beautiful....and so quickly slipped off and out of harm. Good thing too with the first clumsy dropping I preformed in front of my locker as I was trying to put it up after lunch. One hardback corner is now permanently wrinkled, but I knew the book would not go unscathed in my hands.
Which takes me to hardbacks and how easy they make it to be clumsy with their bulky, awkward and heavy form. A page feel like it takes ages to read (though reading in the breakroom with a bunch a chatter surely didn't help) and there is no comfortable way to hold the damn thing other than leaning it against heavier surfaces than itself.
As to the story, I'm only the prologue and a few pages of the first Tyrion chapter in but it is exciting! And any excitement in my day filled with heat and fatigue cause by heat and mess caused by people not doing their jobs, is an excitement well appreciated. Now...I technically have the time to read but I also have the aforementioned great fatigue and the sleepiness that trails closely behind. As much as I want to hand out with the cool kids in Westeros and the Free Cities, it will have to wait for when I am less heat exhausted.
I was leaving the house on the way to work and saw it there, in its cardboard box and shoved it in the car with me, opening the package while driving as you do when you are crazy, impatient, and crazily impatient. The cover, so beautiful....and so quickly slipped off and out of harm. Good thing too with the first clumsy dropping I preformed in front of my locker as I was trying to put it up after lunch. One hardback corner is now permanently wrinkled, but I knew the book would not go unscathed in my hands.
Which takes me to hardbacks and how easy they make it to be clumsy with their bulky, awkward and heavy form. A page feel like it takes ages to read (though reading in the breakroom with a bunch a chatter surely didn't help) and there is no comfortable way to hold the damn thing other than leaning it against heavier surfaces than itself.
As to the story, I'm only the prologue and a few pages of the first Tyrion chapter in but it is exciting! And any excitement in my day filled with heat and fatigue cause by heat and mess caused by people not doing their jobs, is an excitement well appreciated. Now...I technically have the time to read but I also have the aforementioned great fatigue and the sleepiness that trails closely behind. As much as I want to hand out with the cool kids in Westeros and the Free Cities, it will have to wait for when I am less heat exhausted.
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