bookrastination

Took a little procrastinatory moment to almost-finish cataloging my fiction books--I hadn't yet done my shelf of favourite authors. (I just haven't done Heyer yet.)

So far I have about 370 "already read" books added to weread on facebook. A mixture of the books I've read and still own, and those I can remember reading--which I add to sporadically, as titles come back to me. I envy those growing up in this electronic age, who can catalog every book they've ever read as they grow up! How wonderful that would be, to remember every library book you took out as a child, every little collection you owned, etc. SIGH.

Here's my list of Favourites on weread. To be a fave, it doesn't have to be the greatest book in terms of Ahtistic Mewit. In fact, it's hard for me to mark just any great literary read as a fave, because if the book was also sad, chances are I'll never re-read it. But there's a few, like A Fine Balance. I probably won't ever reread it, but it was so beautiful, I cared about the characters so much, and I remember so many little details--it definitely has to qualify as one of my fave books ever. But often books like that earn 4-stars, or 5-stars but not a "fave."

On the other hand, books that were funny usually make The Fave List. Even if every Wooster story is basically the same, I know I'll always return to these stories and get great enjoyment out of them. These are the books that make me want to write.

To write... if I can ever get out of this mire of music business research.

I also have an account at goodbooks, but I'm only adding books to it as I currently read them--I joined so as to chitchat with other staff members on what we're reading.

writing humdrumconundrum

How to write about fictional inventors? Let's say you want to write about a character who revolutionizes an industry (the - ahem - music industry, for example, which I'm writing about, and which is imploding)... how do you invent the revolutionizing thing when you, yourself, are not actually genius enough to predict or come up with Thing That Needs Revolutionizing?

Luckily, as a humour writer, I will probably fight my way out of this paper bag by doing something silly. But in the research/thinking phase it's hurting my brain like hell, which means I'm procrastinating a lot.

I usually enjoy researching, but on a personal level I'm not sure I care all that much how this music thing is going to turn out. I consume music, but I don't make it. I'm happy to sit back and see what happens. But now I can't! I can't just SBASWH because I'm writing this damn book. Or rather, I'd like to be writing this damn book, but I can't until I get a breakthrough.

Frikkety frak.

It's 6 AM I'd better go to bed. Frakkety frakky frak frak frak.

I feel like Don Music from Sesame Street.

Sherry Bones

This is my oldy cat. Named after Friday's Child: Lord Sherringham. Or Sherry. Or Bones. Or Indiana Bones when he's feeling adventurous.

Now that he's so oldy he just likes to sleep...

Have cuddles.

Play.

And eat (here he guards the softies.)

Admittedly... these are the things he's always loved to do. He just does them in a different proportion.

Things Sherry likes:
- softies over crunchies
- toys that jump and fly about
- a good run after he uses the facilities
- freshly cleaned pillow cases (Apparently. Today I tossed two clean pillow cases on the bed, and he went straight to them and slept there all day.)
- scratches and fur-pulls from the armpits upwards
- carbs (but he can't tolerate them--so he's a cat with long bumhair, who gets diarrhea once a week)

Things Sherry hates:
- Haley bugging him
- pets anywhere below the armpits
- bathing himself
- the weekly bath to clean his bum
- when other cats come home from the vet smelling Wrong

mixtape

Well, I changed my song again. I finally decided on Nina Simone's "Ain't Got No/I Got Life" for the playlist of favourite songs of the employees in my department. This song fits the bill even better than my previous choices--it's sung by a woman, it's a song I'll love forevah, but it's also a song that represents me philosophically.

And here is the playlist (I didn't realize you could embed a whole playlist!) it's pretty interesting. I've got a couple new faves now.



[PS - Please no negative comments, should you choose to view The List. I doubt a single one of my employees reads this blog, but in case someone does... sharing favourite songs is actually a sort of vulnerable thing to do.]