I'm wavering on whether to give Leviathan Wakes a go too, and for the exact same reason. Don't want to spoil myself, but it'll presumably be a good eight or ten months before the show is back, that's soooo long… *fidgets*

Black Swan Green is still my favourite David Mitchell, I think, although that may have something to do with a vague nostalgia for the UK of my childhood. (Caveat being that I don't remember much about BSG other than that I really enjoyed reading it.)

Oh, that does rather add insult to injury. Hope you're rid of the lurgy soon.

Similar thing here. Where I live, there's absolutely no need to drive, most places I'd want to go are walkable, and when not, we have great public transport. But where my mother lives, there's no public transport at all, which is a problem during visits now, so I have no idea how that's going to work as she gets older…

It's been said already, but… yikes!

Me three. Mine's all of a sudden gone from slight cough to "Getting out of bed? Are you sure this is *HONK* dnecessary? Or even poddible?", probably because I left the house yesterday. Being a shut-in is where it's at, people. *small coughing fit*

Congratulations! I'm 45 and still dithering over whether to bother learning.

Finished Hell's Horizon by Darren Shan, which was pretty good in an entertaining, but not particularly remarkable way. It's largely a standalone novel, but towards the end I realised that if I could properly remember what happened in the first part of the trilogy I'd be enjoying this a fair bit more, as the two…

Having rarely used it before, holy crap is that bad. But hey, I found the article in the end:

I don't watch iZombie (haven't got round to it), but she's excellent and fairly terrifying on The Magicians.

I am slightly dismayed that I'm going to have to give this a go now, but… Kacey Rohl.

It is some consolation, actually, and "crushingly tedious" sounds about right. Though again, I'm sure it's all of great interest to people who are into that period of American history.

Will Graham has terrifying nightmares. About dead people talking to him, strange antlered creatures stalking him, and ice cream cones licking televisions. Hannibal was just never able to do much with that last one.

Why do you keep trying to give me things you know I'm scared of? WHY?

I… I gave up on Burr. I'm not proud of it, and I left a bookmark in it as a sort of pretense that I may go back to it, but things have been a bit rough lately and I just felt like I needed to be reading something I was enjoying, rather than something that was probably good but just not for me.

I've liked all his previous books except The Mirage, which I have but have never yet felt like reading - the premise seems like it would get irritating, fast. Lovecraft Country sounds more like my kind of thing, though.

That final section of The Bone Clocks is incredibly powerful. I don't have kids, but it did get me worrying about our future in a way I rarely do.

There's a new Matt Ruff novel? To Amazon!

Sexual tension would be a big step up from the bland void of whatever's going on with those two.

Please, please no. I'm not sure even my misguided affection for this show could make me sit through 22, or 13, episodes of Robbie Amell trying to look intelligent, or at least alive.