Finished “City in Ruins”.

Did not end how I thought it would, so pleasantly surprised. Enjoyed the trilogy a good deal. Now I can try to finish  “The Left Hand of Darkness” and then I can immediately jump into the new James SA Corey book due out later this week. I’m chugging along now. Got a good rhythm going. I was hesitant to finish “City in Ruins” because I was dreading a less than stellar ending, but fear not! It isn’t. And now that I am deeper into The Left Hand it is making more sense to me. It felt like I had missed a book one, but that’s just how it is written I suppose. Not all questions get answered, at least initially.

Will I make my 12 books over twelve months challenge again this year? Not sure, but I think I’m up to book 8 or 9 so far, so not far off if I keep chugging along. I don’t mean to keep buying new books, as I was trying to get through my TBR pile on my book shelves. To save money, and to actually read all the books I’m storing at home, which take up space. Valuable space in such a small home at that. I hot rid of quite a few books last year, and was looking to do so again, but I didn’t read as much of my back log as I had hoped that I might. 2 or 3 only, so far. I’m kind of scared to go count just how many I have on hand that I have not yet read a word of. The total number is going to be fairly high. Like 20-30 books or more potentially. Although I think I donated a few series that I just knew I would never bother to read based on how much I disliked what I’d read of their first book(s). Sometimes you just know. You know?

We have rain today, much needed rain at that. The last two or three days have been blisteringly hot. My room smells vaguely of burning white. So that isn’t good. I thought it was my small portable fan, so I unplugged that and ran just the ceiling fan. But this morning the room smells again, so it’s the ceiling fan that is the culprit. Unless there’s an issue in one of the walls, or sockets. Try sleeping with that knowledge creeping in your head. Yeah! Exactly.

Though it could be the lingering off gassing from the sinking my dog took 3 weeks ago, missed with his body oils, as he (the puppy) sleeps in my room to stop him interfering with the bunny rabbit at night. So maybe I’m just paranoid is all. But I know that smell. I’ve cooked off enough tools and electric motors to know that stench well.