Just had another truly terrible night of sleep. For the last four or five days I have been clenching my jaw so tightly during the night that I am afraid it's going to break, and jaw-ache itself becomes a stress factor, but I can't fall asleep with the mouthguard in, so it's really a catch-22!
I must confess that as hard as I'm working, I still have had time to read a few novels around the edges. Three good ones, in fact: Taylor Stevens' excellent The Innocent, follow-up to last year's superb debut The Informationist (let us just start calling her "the female Lee Child"!); a truly delightful novel by Daniel O'Malley, The Rook (it's reminiscent of Diana Wynne Jones somehow but also quite a bit like Charlie Stross's Laundry books or the Dresden Files - really genuinely charming and funny, I was hugely impressed); and a recommendation from Jo Walton, Sharon Shinn's Summers at Castle Auburn.
Closing tabs:
How long does it take to find an agent?
Wikis in the classroom.
A competition in honor of Helen Hill.
I can't wait to read Francis Spufford's new book!
Irresistible juveniles.
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I'd never heard of Spufford but I've never seen a more enticing title than that of his "ice" book.
ReplyDeleteSame for me: I think Dwight Garner just succeeded in selling me three books in one review.
ReplyDeleteI had the jaw-clenching thing a few years ago, and it's not fun at all. I found the mouthguard did eventually sort things out, though I did sometimes wake up with aching teeth and have to take it out.
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