Bout of Books 7.0: Saturday and Sunday

Books I've read from:  

Inferno by Dan Brown 

Bloody Valentine by Melissa de la Cruz

Pages read today:

  409 pages from Inferno 

147 from Bloody Valentine

Books finished today:

2 

Running total:

  1095 pages, 5 books   

Today #insixwords: 

Why does May hate me so?

So the full-fledged wrath of Measles hit me yesterday and I've pretty much been in bed ever since. I feel pretty appalling, but I can at least think clearly so I've been able to read and churn out this post.

Not only that, but I got a review out too! I know, I know, but do try and with-hold your applause for a few moments. I finished Inferno at lunchtime today and wanted to talk about it so badly that I bypassed all my other outstanding reviews (of which there are many) and typed it up straight away. Read it here - it's actually pretty damn good. I was more than a little impressed. The novel, I mean, not my review.

Clearly I'm not going to reach my target of five reviews, but in my defence it's been a pretty crap week. I have exceeded my reading goal of finishing three books though, and I'm well into my fourth so it's not a complete loss.

I may have gotten distracted by Eurovision last night. I've never seen it before, but clearly I've been missing out! I was flicking back and forth for a few songs, but then Greece came on and I was hooked. They so should have won. Apparently there's a Thing that I had no idea about - that the UK is usually in the bottom three and most countries vote in their own little cliques. God, you could write a fascinating dissertation on it.

 

Of course it helped that Ellie and Hannah amused me nearly the entire way through and Graham Norton's little snide comments were almost better than the thing itself. Gotta love the British interjections of sarcasm :)

EDIT: I don't know what I've done to the month of May to make it fuck me over so much, but there are literally no areas of my life left for it to ruin.

My Dad was carted off in an ambulance a few hours ago and I have nobody to talk about it to, as my go-to person broke up with me last week. Ditto a few days ago when I contracted measles and all my pupillage applications were invalidated. What am I meant to do!?

EVEN LATER: So my Dad is being kept over night, but it stable. He's on a respirator, but he should be able to breathe on his own.

Thank you for the text messages and Tweets, everyone. I thought I didn't have a support system, but I very clearly do. And now I'm tearing up again, but the point is that I love you all.