Happy Monday!

Has a book every just put you in a good mood? I don’t mean a feel good story or a happily ever after, but something so well written that you can’t help but smile and just keep turning the page? Yeah it doesn’t happen that often to me either but oh boy have I found something that is making me happy. The Devils by Joe Abercrombie is truly making me smile right now. Now the book does not come out until May 2025 but you need to be putting this on your TBR list if you like dark fantasy. I will say, and I will get into this in my review once I am finished, is that the first 50 pages were tough to get into. All the world building blah blah blah was a lot for me to take in all at once. Have you ever had that happen to you? Where the beginning of a new fantasy novel was just so dense with world building that you also DNF’ed it but you gave it another 20 pages and then suddenly the book hits its strive and you couldn’t put it down? I’ll leave a space towards the bottom for you to answer that 🙂

So I has no idea what to write for this post today, I am not the most thoughtful and introspective person, nor do I typically have opinions that I want to write down. So I struggle with figuring out was type of content I want to write which ends up in me writing nothing. Typical. There is just something with my mind and writing that just does not connect. I can speak an idea and talk about anything for any amount of time and if I have some creative vision I can tell Nick every single detail. However, you want me to write it down, I become like a shy 2nd grader and just want to hide behind my mom. But I wanted to write something today and so here I go.

Okay, let me tell you what just happened and why I think I struggle with writing so much. As I was writing the above paragraph Willow, my youngest cat, came up to my chair in my office space and started to pester me. Reaching up and touching me, while meowing. It is very cute and I love her but she would not leave me alone. So I got up and followed her downstairs into the bathroom, this is where we feed her (I don’t know but that is where she chose to eat) and she hopped op onto the toilet. I spent some time with her, gave her some kibble and then I went into the kitchen, poured myself another cup of coffee, decided I wanted a drink from my Ninja Thirsti, and also that I wanted to make more ice. So I filled a cup to fill the ice maker, plugged in the Thirsti and made myself a drink, having to go into the freezer to get already made ice. At one point I had to stop what I was doing to remember that I was in the middle of writing this post, and I almost went back upstairs leaving my drinks in the kitchen. Also I thought of how its Monday, I do not have rehearsal, Nick has school tonight and I haven’t hung out with my best friend over video games in a while. So this was a perfect example. I just cannot sit down long enough to write something of merit and my brain thinks of a million different things so it is hard to narrow it down.

So what else can I say? I mean it just happened again… I got a work email that derailed me for over an hour.

I do not have a lot more to say. I just wanted to post something and get used to this.