a good book
Jul. 16th, 2023 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherI read a book!
Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore was a relatively easy read: short chapters, slightly larger text (YA), an adventure tale that keeps the pages turning. It's in a series that I like, the Graceling Realm. (In this series, the middle book is Bitterblue which is one of my favorite books ever.)
The author did an artist's residency on a ship that went to the arctic circle, and her experiences inform this story of people on a tall ship sailing among ice bergs. There are also telepathic foxes! This tale focuses on the queen's spy, Hava, who is also her half-sister.
It felt good to read, though maybe I overdid it a bit with this concentration-heavy activity.
More smoke today. The smell/taste thing seems a bit better today, and I do have faith that eventually it will resolve, but it's been distressing. What seems to have helped: Changing my bed sheets, spraying fabrics down with alcohol, washing nearly everything. I turned off, and left off, the bedroom AC unit which is dirty and is beyond my ability to clean--looks like you have to take the whole thing apart, and it's heavy and difficult. Good design should include the concept of cleaning, oh my god, who designs these things.
A bit of whimsy: A couple of times this summer, I've seen this man walking down my street wearing a little red peaked cap, the kind you see on troll figurines.
Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore was a relatively easy read: short chapters, slightly larger text (YA), an adventure tale that keeps the pages turning. It's in a series that I like, the Graceling Realm. (In this series, the middle book is Bitterblue which is one of my favorite books ever.)
The author did an artist's residency on a ship that went to the arctic circle, and her experiences inform this story of people on a tall ship sailing among ice bergs. There are also telepathic foxes! This tale focuses on the queen's spy, Hava, who is also her half-sister.
It felt good to read, though maybe I overdid it a bit with this concentration-heavy activity.
More smoke today. The smell/taste thing seems a bit better today, and I do have faith that eventually it will resolve, but it's been distressing. What seems to have helped: Changing my bed sheets, spraying fabrics down with alcohol, washing nearly everything. I turned off, and left off, the bedroom AC unit which is dirty and is beyond my ability to clean--looks like you have to take the whole thing apart, and it's heavy and difficult. Good design should include the concept of cleaning, oh my god, who designs these things.
A bit of whimsy: A couple of times this summer, I've seen this man walking down my street wearing a little red peaked cap, the kind you see on troll figurines.
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Date: 2023-07-17 02:15 am (UTC)Nice.
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Date: 2023-07-17 04:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-17 11:42 am (UTC)Does the AC belong to you or your landlord?
If it's yours, we could look for a place that will do cleaning/maintenance- willing to chip in for your wellbeing.
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Date: 2023-07-17 03:01 pm (UTC)I think the wool rugs in my bedroom (which I got free from a friend) might smell of something, but I can only smell it when the humidity is high and the air conditioning is not on, so I haven't done anything to them yet beyond sprinkling with baking soda and vacuuming it up. IT's the time of year in Philadelphia when I leave my bedroom AC on.
Congratulations
Date: 2023-07-17 03:09 pm (UTC)on reading print -- that's a huge accomplishment. For months the idea of reading was beyond you.
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