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Book Weekend
Sep. 8th, 2020 01:34 amMatt finished securing the last of the book cases to the wall, and unloading all the books from boxes onto the shelves. Then this weekend I went down and rearranged a whole bunch, trying to arrange things by category because there's so many of them, I didn't know any other real good way to do it, other than to do my best to genre categorize and then to try and keep authors together. We culled another full box of books while we were doing all this too. Some were old ARCs from my actual review days and some were ones that have sense been tainted by the author, or by time and changing impressions. Then there was a host of my old coding books that are so out of fashion there's no point in keeping them around.
I tried my best to take a panoramic shot to include all the book cases.
I'm pretty happy with the way it all looks now, even if we do have a couple of random sections of "it takes too much effort to fit these elsewhere" shelves. That and I did discover that there are several of my books missing - specifically my Kate Forsyth series. I have books two and three of one series and no books from another series and I cannot for the life of me think what I must've done with them. Normally if I loan out a book I know who exactly took it but these, I can't remember and I don't feel like I would've culled them to be sold or donated. So I'm at a loss. We did unearth several books from another room and I think there's still some closet shelf books hidden somewhere. So I might reach out to a few people to see if they have them, but spend an evening digging through the two spare closets too just in case.
I also spent my extended weekend with a migraine, a pretty bad one after several weeks of having none at all. The rescue med did take the edge off, but didn't keep and every time I laid down or tried to sleep, it was just so much worse.
When I was awake and feeling less awful, I kept playing Uncharted 4, which I bought myself for my birthday with some gifted money. I knew I'd probably finish that sooner than if I started with the Horizon Zero Dawn complete collection, which proved true. I finished Uncharted 4 early this afternoon and I'm really happy with how it turned out and how they ended the series. I know there's no definitive answers about if they'll ever do a fifth game about Nathan Drake and I'm kind of okay if they don't. I know there's a "Lost Legacy" game with two of the female characters off adventuring together and I'll check that out eventually because I've heard good things. I love how those games play and it made me a little nostalgic for the Tomb Raider games which I feel like are a little bit better in terms of variety in game play.
I'm also slowly making process in Harrow the Ninth. It's a slower, tougher read for me, this book. I'm less engaged with the main character and with the storytelling technique in this one. So it's definitely taking me far longer to read it than I read Gideon. I have picked up The Babysitter's Coven by Kate Williams as an ebook. It's and easy YA read and easier to transport around the house, so I've been switching back and forth.
I tried my best to take a panoramic shot to include all the book cases.
I'm pretty happy with the way it all looks now, even if we do have a couple of random sections of "it takes too much effort to fit these elsewhere" shelves. That and I did discover that there are several of my books missing - specifically my Kate Forsyth series. I have books two and three of one series and no books from another series and I cannot for the life of me think what I must've done with them. Normally if I loan out a book I know who exactly took it but these, I can't remember and I don't feel like I would've culled them to be sold or donated. So I'm at a loss. We did unearth several books from another room and I think there's still some closet shelf books hidden somewhere. So I might reach out to a few people to see if they have them, but spend an evening digging through the two spare closets too just in case.
I also spent my extended weekend with a migraine, a pretty bad one after several weeks of having none at all. The rescue med did take the edge off, but didn't keep and every time I laid down or tried to sleep, it was just so much worse.
When I was awake and feeling less awful, I kept playing Uncharted 4, which I bought myself for my birthday with some gifted money. I knew I'd probably finish that sooner than if I started with the Horizon Zero Dawn complete collection, which proved true. I finished Uncharted 4 early this afternoon and I'm really happy with how it turned out and how they ended the series. I know there's no definitive answers about if they'll ever do a fifth game about Nathan Drake and I'm kind of okay if they don't. I know there's a "Lost Legacy" game with two of the female characters off adventuring together and I'll check that out eventually because I've heard good things. I love how those games play and it made me a little nostalgic for the Tomb Raider games which I feel like are a little bit better in terms of variety in game play.
I'm also slowly making process in Harrow the Ninth. It's a slower, tougher read for me, this book. I'm less engaged with the main character and with the storytelling technique in this one. So it's definitely taking me far longer to read it than I read Gideon. I have picked up The Babysitter's Coven by Kate Williams as an ebook. It's and easy YA read and easier to transport around the house, so I've been switching back and forth.
