it’s funny, i don’t feel like i read fast. sometimes i don’t feel like i can read fast enough when i get totally engrossed in something. and yet when i look up and make eye contact with those nearest to me, they are often shaking their heads in bemused wonder. *shrugs*

so yeah, finished all 608 pages of ‘new moon’ in a bout 14 hours. wrapped it up last night at 3:30 am because, as usual, i couldn’t stop reading it. thus far i can say i liked it a little more than i did ‘twilight’. and no, i’m not looking for literary genius here, just a good yarn. these books are like popcorn. not necessarily good for you and you can’t eat just one. i’ll read a couple other things and get the third book sometime in mid july. the last book is out august 2nd and i’d like to be caught up for the big event.

next up is ’splinter of the mind’s eye’ which i still can’t believe i’ve never read. actually didn’t own a copy until last weekend when we took a trip to our local, awesome, and most-extremely-dangerous-to-the-wallet bookstore. after that i’m not sure what i’ll hit next. i’m thinking ‘the long tomorrow’ by leigh brackett (she of the original empire strikes back script) and then after that i’m really not sure. there may be a few other star wars novels in my future, possibly ‘cestus deception’ as it’s all clone wars related and stuff. i think i’d like to go back and reread (or at least skim as i think i’ve read ‘courtship’ enough times to recite the thing) all my old hardcovers and the x-wing books at some point. i loved those wedge books. those and the jedi academy trilogy were some of my favorites of the series. hmm. and there are the comics as well. perhaps i’ll start by seeing where i stand with my list and start interspercing some of these in with my other reading.

otherwise things are well in my little world. the peaceful feeling on the surface is still accompanied by the rumbling unrest beneath the waves. the best analogy i can come up with for this feeling is that i’m out past the breakers, treading water on a quiet sea, but there is a herd of whales moving deep down below my feet, shifting the current. i keep bobbing along on top and waiting for them to surface so i can see what they look like.

my energy is quiet at the moment and i just seem to need a break from the active creative stuff. doesn’t mean i’m not going to have some kind of forward motion, though, as i’ve a ton of tutorial vids to watch. i think that’s how i’ll be spending my afternoon. ooooh, shiny.