I'm lazy.

I had planned to go to bed early and go to the farmer's market this morning.

Instead I stayed up all night and read the first book of Percy Jackson's canon The Lightning Thief. I really liked it modern take on the gods and one way they might have changed if they were still around now. Percy, Annabeth and Grover are wonderful, as is Chiron who reminds me of all the good bits of Dumbledore and I would so love to have had him as a Latin teacher. This is a book I recommend to anyone who likes myths, but also who likes a good adventure story.

I'm kind of amused that I just realized it had a label on the spine calling it a Guy's Read, oh American sorting system, a good book is a good book. So now I'm off to town to get a rather late lunch, buy something to bake for dessert tonight after I finish watching rowing, my New Zealanders are really good at it so I have to cheer them on.

Small Grumble

If I didn't know better, I'd think someone didn't want me to finish The Dalemark Quartet. It turns out that I'd remembered wrong and none of the libraries in all of Delaware have the last book. So I'm going to read the first three and see what to do from there.

Though the Lewes library does have the first three Percy Jackson books. Amazon has the fourth but either in buying it with the third or such.

Honestly if I had the money, I'd buy the whole series since I really like it and keep finding characters that I enjoy a lot just need a job first. Maybe I'll get it when I get a birthday present for my father, we'll see.

Also Milliways has inspired me to want to research something, the Joker's entrance affected Will a lot and I went to look for books on Fools and Jesters and found one that looks really interesting. At one time I considered doing medieval studies, mainly due to Will and Cadfael and the idea of Fools has always fascinated me.

I keep thinking about one of my favorite Ngaio Marsh mysteries called Death of a Fool about a murder that happens during a Mummer's/Morris Dance. I need to find it and reread it because I'm taking some inspiration from Ngaio Marsh's research plus my own scant knowledge for what the Joker would mean to Will which is different than to a modern person. Right, now to stop spamming friend's list with long thoughts on books just need access to a better library, used bookstore or just money.