A whole blog post about what I am not reading

I'm going to give you a little pro-tip. If you go to bed too late a couple of nights in a row because you are trying to finish a library book that is becoming increasingly overdue at the library, you will not have a whole lot of energy during the day as a result. Shocking, I know. I finished the book yesterday, got to bed at a much more reasonable time, and (surprisingly) had quite a bit more energy than the two days previous. I'm 56 and still find this little bit of information somewhat surprising. Well, if not surprising, then inconvenient. Evenings are my designated reading time after all.

I am now between fiction books again at the moment, so getting to bed at a decent hour should be fairly easy. I have had a horrible time this year finding fiction that I feel like reading. I have plenty of books on my list that would probably be interesting, but they just don't strike my fancy at this moment. I started Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel a while bit, read the first 80 pages or so, had another book appear that I wanted to read more, so set Wolf Hall aside. Then, after her death in September I heard an interview with her which was being rebroadcast and I thought I should pick the book back up again. Obviously since this is now mid-November, I did not rush to do this. 

But yet the book sits there on my stack next to the bed and I'm starting to feel a bit annoyed by seeing it there. I don't want to give up on it, so I think I'm just going to have to read it. I actually enjoyed the bit I've already read, so that's not a bad thing. But I've let the book sit there with a bookmark for about half a year and I'm afraid that it is going to be a bit of a slog to remember exactly what was going on and who all the people are (and there are a lot of people, it is the kind of book which needs family trees in the front as well a lists of characters). If I can get over this, then I can move ahead. 

And if I enjoy it as much as I think I eventually will, there will probably be several more late nights in my future as I finish it.


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