Dear library books (Anna Dressed in Blood, Lockwood and Co. The
Screaming Staircase, Emily the Strange: The Lost Days, etc.),
I am terribly sorry to inform
you that my box set of the Modern Faerie
Tales series by Holly Black arrived in the mail yesterday. Since I've been waiting not-so-patiently for
these books to get to my mail box, I will be reading all of them. The only times I will stop reading them will
be to do pointless things like sleep, eat, and drive places. (Because if I read
in the car I get sick to my stomach. I
wish I had the audio-books.) One of my
goals for this year is to read all of Holly Black's books, so, since none of
you are written by Holly Black, I'm not going to read you yet.
Another reason why I'm reading Tithe, instead of you, is because of one
very simple reason: It's fantasy. I read fantasy even more than I eat
chocolate, and that's saying something. Yes,
most of you have ghosts and one of you has feral black cats and amnesia, but I
would rather read about elves with bluey-silvery hair which sprang from Holly
Black's imagination. I didn't even
insist on plugging my iPod into my radio to listen to music (my normal reading
situation) when I was reading Tithe
last night. I read until well past
midnight (nothing weird there). Yes, I did
surrender to sleep until I had to get up and do something, but dreams of elves
and magic and white cats filled my head while I slept.
I really am sorry. Really.
But you know how I am when I get new books about faeries. These books
are even better than normal books about faeries because these books are by
Holly Black! What did you think I would
do!?!?
I can't say enough that I'm
terribly sorry, but, in a way, I'm not sorry at all. I'll really try to finish reading one or more
of you, but if I can't finish Tithe
fast enough (which I can, but if I get the flu or something and sit on the
couch like a slug for a few days-just like on Christmas, happy day-I might not
be able to read because I'll be sleeping like a slug. But even if I have to sleep, I'm going to
literally hold my eyes open and read.) I might have to return you to the
library unread, but at least you will have lots of other books to keep you
company.
I really am sorry, sort
of... Okay, I'm not as sorry as I keep
saying I am, but I will read you at some point... I think.
Blueshoe
P.S. Dear Spellcheck
Bluey is a word, no matter what
you think. Also, all of your suggestions
for what I might want to write instead of bluey are terrible. What would bluesy hair be anyway?
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