Spin Cycle: Relax

Earlier tonight (yesterday), before watching NCIS (ah, Cote de Pablo) and Fringe (John Noble kills me) (no more parenthesis, promise)(Ok, I can't really make that promise since I'm mostly winging this and I'm not sure where it's heading) I was over at Unmitigated reading Middle Aged Woman's post on what she's reading. I started to leave a comment about what I was reading but then I couldn't remember the correct name of one of the books and had to go upstairs to write them all down. Then I though, what the hell, I can make a post out of this myself. And then I thought, hey lazy ass, you still haven't done Spin Cycle yet this week (surprise, surprise...oops) two birds with one stone!

This week's Spin is about relaxing, and reading helps me relax. Unless, of course, whatever I'm reading is really REALLY good and I have to read just a few more paragraphs or at least until the end of this section (and here we are again, but I had to mention that I just ran upstairs to ask Supreme Leader for the word to describe a portion of a chapter that tells part of the story but isn't the entirety of the chapter, just a sub story to the chapter but I couldn't think of the name and she totally didn't help at all, just looked at me like I was insane and why am I bothering her during Eli Stone and she's not sure it even has a name but COME ON it has to have a name, doesn't it? Do you know what I'm talking about? Please?)...where was I? Oh ya, so reading relaxes me before bed, unless it's a really good book and I only put it down when my eyes start bleeding or I notice the room is getting brighter.

Wow. Why don't we start fresh down here. Remember reading before kids? Oh, those golden days. No offense to my little angels, but I miss that. Being able to pick up a book any time of day and read it without distraction. Without having to break up a fight, feed someone, kiss something that's hurt, find out why it's so quiet, hand out punishment for why it was so quiet, help battle Imperial Japan/Nazi Germany/the Dark Side/all Super Mario's enemies, take someone to school, bring someone home from school and put somebody on the potty before he pees on the carpet again because even though Elmo has told him that whenever he feels like he needs to go he should stop whatever he's doing and go he still doesn't because, by god, he might miss...well, SOMETHING, dammit! Remember that? So the last thing I do before turning out the light and kissing Supreme Leader is take this little tiny piece of the day that is mine and lose myself in a book. That's my relaxation.

Right now I'm reading Stephen Erikson's Toll of the Hounds which is the 8th book in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series.



If you like fantasy, he is an amazing author, and not just because he's Canadian. The first book in the series is called Gardens of the Moon.

I'm reading four other books at the moment as well, but I've put all of them on hold while I work on Toll of the Hounds. On Hold:

The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon.

The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

I've also got The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie on the bed stand, but I haven't opened it yet. And yes, long time readers, this was the same book Liam peed on.

And now it's after 11pm and I've still barely read any blogs from yesterday and I should be upstairs READING A BOOK! Deep breath... relax...