Even in Spring break Mondays are bad days. First off it rains and it’s so cold in the house, since we did the smartest thing ever, aka remove the coal burning stove we used for the winter, thus getting a bath I impossible unless your cold tolerance is extreme. Bad part is that we need it since, today we spent around 7 hours taking down the old wallpapers from the walls. Mission “Spring Cleaning” was supposed to be easy enough. Unfortunately it was not and now my back hurts like every other part of my body.
I am pretty pissed at my dad, since the lazy man spent these 7 hours in the other part of the house and did absolutely nothing! Yes, he did absolutely nothing. I repeat nothing apart from resting himself, because he was oh-so-tired to the brink of exhaustion, since he prepared lunch. I proposed to my mom to give him as a late birthday gift an apron saying “The woman in the House” since my mom wears pants way more often anyways. Every day I ask myself the question “Will I become like this, when I get old?”. Quite frankly it’s worse than the scariest zombie horror movie.
Anyways in between rooms we managed to organize all the books we owned, my mother and me, and due to all the new books and other items we have collected recently we had to say bye to a great part of those books. My mother has over 300 titles in her personal library, most of them in Russian, so with a heavy heart she has to donate a lot, near 100 of those to the city library. My books ran up to nearly 70, which are not as much as I would like to have, but I have read more than 70 I assure you! So because of the whole review blogging I am saying bye to exactly the half. It’s painful! So painful! The good part is that they are going to a friend of mine, who
enjoys fantasy, so the thought that they will be loves is soothing.
Good news for today is that I contacted Solaris and received an e-mail today regarding my request to review for them. The answer is affirmative, so soon I will have books to read. Yum! Thanks to Dolce Bellezza I will be receiving a very early birthday present in the form of “Inkheart” and I am pleased to know that John Joseph Adams will send me his anthology “Wastelands”. On a side note I will be guest blogging at The Book Swede so Chris will be sending me more books. All in all, I won’t be bored soon.
Today I hosted my interview with Kristopher Reisz over at Temple Library Reviews and for my LJ people, always wanting to know more, the treat is in the usual places HERE and THERE. Sadly though, I failed to write my review of “Taste of Night” by Vicki Pettersson. Well there is always tomorrow for that as well.
{PS: Amazing art is provided from the deviant art gallery of Jessica Oyhenart aka tattereddreams}