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selenayToday I have been mostly feeling crappy. I had a fantastic night out last night with The Girls, eating Thai food and celebrating a friend's birthday. Really, really good night.
Except...
The chairs in the restaurant were pretty uncomfortable and by the time I got home my back was killing me. I went to bed, foolishly not taking any painkillers, and didn't sleep at all well thanks to the back pain. Even when I did get to sleep, I dreamt about the back pain. Bleh. So I spent most of the day feeling thoroughly zoned out and my back hadn't eased up at all either. My daily painkillers don't get rid of all the pain anyway on a good day, but the breakthrough pain today definitely wasn't good. I've been taking extra stuff to control it all day but that's left me feeling rather shaky and icky in addition to the zoned out from lack of sleep effect.
Hence, mostly crappy.
I plan on having an early night and then going out for coffee with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
historyterry tomorrow. It's going to be a quiet weekend, which is exactly what I need.
In less whiney stuffy, why didn't I know that Peter Jackson has optionednaominovik's Temeraire books? Damn, those are movies I'll be looking forward to tons if they get to screen. If anyone on my f-list hasn't read the books already, go and find them because they are fabulous.
Speaking of books...a colleague at work, on asking me how my sci-fi con went, said that he's never read any sci-fi and could I lend him one so that he can try it out? Except 85% of my SF&F books are on the F side rather than the SF. Does anyone have some good suggestions for good SF books for beginners that I can either lend (if I have or can track down a copy) or recommend to him?
Sadly, I don't have a copy of Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold, which is what I initially thought of when he asked (it was where I started with LMB and she's become one of my favourite SF authors). Also, the only Asimov that I own is Nemesis - it's my father who owns all the Robot books. Neuromancer may not be the best choice for a first-time SF reader. And I'm starting to run short of SF that I actually own - most of my SF comes from the library and most of my book purchases are fantasy.
All suggestions would definitely be welcome.
And I plan to type up that book list from Redemption this weekend to go on the LJ comm.
Except...
The chairs in the restaurant were pretty uncomfortable and by the time I got home my back was killing me. I went to bed, foolishly not taking any painkillers, and didn't sleep at all well thanks to the back pain. Even when I did get to sleep, I dreamt about the back pain. Bleh. So I spent most of the day feeling thoroughly zoned out and my back hadn't eased up at all either. My daily painkillers don't get rid of all the pain anyway on a good day, but the breakthrough pain today definitely wasn't good. I've been taking extra stuff to control it all day but that's left me feeling rather shaky and icky in addition to the zoned out from lack of sleep effect.
Hence, mostly crappy.
I plan on having an early night and then going out for coffee with
historyterry tomorrow. It's going to be a quiet weekend, which is exactly what I need.In less whiney stuffy, why didn't I know that Peter Jackson has optioned
naominovik's Temeraire books? Damn, those are movies I'll be looking forward to tons if they get to screen. If anyone on my f-list hasn't read the books already, go and find them because they are fabulous.Speaking of books...a colleague at work, on asking me how my sci-fi con went, said that he's never read any sci-fi and could I lend him one so that he can try it out? Except 85% of my SF&F books are on the F side rather than the SF. Does anyone have some good suggestions for good SF books for beginners that I can either lend (if I have or can track down a copy) or recommend to him?
Sadly, I don't have a copy of Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold, which is what I initially thought of when he asked (it was where I started with LMB and she's become one of my favourite SF authors). Also, the only Asimov that I own is Nemesis - it's my father who owns all the Robot books. Neuromancer may not be the best choice for a first-time SF reader. And I'm starting to run short of SF that I actually own - most of my SF comes from the library and most of my book purchases are fantasy.
All suggestions would definitely be welcome.
And I plan to type up that book list from Redemption this weekend to go on the LJ comm.
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Date: 2007-03-10 06:19 pm (UTC)I've never actually read the Stainless Steel Rat despite my father having all the Harry Harrison books somewhere in this house. So I've been down to the local secondhand bookshop and picked up a copy, except I'm now going to have to read it before I pass it on to my colleague!