Beware! Jo Walton is setting out lures!

Two very short chapters in, and I can already tell that Jo Walton’s What Makes This Book So Great is going to be an expensive book. That has nothing to do with its own cover price, which is about normal for a new release; no, it’s on account of all the other books Jo is going to make me want to buy. At least, if they’re on Kindle (and the first one that I looked up is); I seem to be better able to resist buying physical books, that will make me pay and wait for delivery.

I think I’m going to have to make a rule: anything I see in this book and want will have to be wish-listed (I have a list specifically for Kindle books I don’t want to buy right away, either because I think the price will fall or I’ve been buying too many books). That way I can decided among the full list at the end, instead of being lured to empty out my bank account one book at a time.

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.

I don’t have a good feeling about this

Just got off the phone with Mom. Dad’s in the hospital, for no real reason anyone can tell – he went *up* the stairs to find Mom to tell her he felt like he was going to fall. They’re keeping him for observation, because when you have that many things wrong even odd weird symptoms that seem minor can be problematic. (I won’t give the entire list, but suffice it to say he’s on fifteen different meds and had radiation for lung cancer not too long ago. It was successful, but draining.) He’s been in bad health for a long time now – decades – and you get used to assuming it can go on for a long time, but the thing that really threw me just now was when Mom have him the phone to talk to me – the last time I heard someone sound that bad was the *last* time I talked to my uncle (who died of cancer in 2009). All Dad said was “Always remember I love you,” which is approximately the second time he’s ever said those last three words ever, the first being a couple weeks ago.

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.