Fictitious Fridays: Falling In Love Again

I could site lots of reasons for why this blog fell into a lull yet again and all of them would be true. I got really wrapped up in my internships this summer and had very little energy left for anything else, I was constantly encased in crippling worry over whether I would have money for rent and food (don't worry, I didn't starve), my relationships with both the people around me and my spirituality were crumbling... Overall, I did some great things this summer, I worked harder than I have in a long time and it paid off (for some idea of what I've been doing you can check out this project I worked on ^ ^). But, summers are never really good for me, no matter how many fun things I do. Maybe I have reverse SADs or something? Anywho, getting off topic, the real reason I let this blog dangle is, I'd fallen out of love with reading.

You've WHAT?!?!?

Think about it, I spend all school year being forced to read and read and read. Some of the material is great and I love and some of it gives me the same queasy feeling I get when there's a torture scene and someone pulls out pliers. *shiver*

"We can do this the easy way or we can do this the Milton way..."

It got to the point where I was only reading to finish a book, regardless of enjoyment factor, because I was always on a deadline! This mentality crept into my recreational reading and made it feel more like work than fun. So I stopped reading for a few months. I focused on my jobs, I started a role play, I got back into TCG's again, and I let my brain rest a bit.

What happened next was mostly due to Felicia Day! Felicia (who is what I want to be when I grow  up) has a vlog called The Flog which I absolutely adore. She has a segment that starts the show called Fave 5 (but now Fave 3 *sadface*) where she talks about some of her favorite things. One of those things was The Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine. Now, Felicia also has a book club that she runs called Vaginal Fantasy (awesome name right?) which is all centered around Fantasy Romance book, not a topic I have ever been interested in. However, Felicia is so cute and bubbly and charismatic, how could I say no?

Oh please no! No, make it stop! I'm too young! >.<

So, here's one thing you should know. I hate gratuitous sex in books. If I'm reading along and everything is great and then all of a sudden, people start taking off their clothes, I'm gone. It completely loses me. Maybe that's why I tend to stick more to YA because if there is sex (and it's rare) there is no throbbing, no quivering, no source of manly power, or any of that BS. So, I have no idea why I decided to pick up Ill Wind.

But I loved it! I felt my love of reading come back as I read it. I never checked how many pages were left, I didn't force myself to read just another 10 pages, and I felt that ache you get when you have to put down a book just as you're getting into it and you can't stop thinking about it ALL DAY! I'm not going to lie and say it was the best book I've ever read but it was fun and well written and engaging and I am so grateful to it for helping me find my love again. I'm almost finished so look out for another article coming soon.

P.S. Just in case you think I'm suddenly into really dirty books, no. There was only one sex scene in this book and was surprisingly very tame. I was so thankful for that, you have no idea how nervous I was about this.