Hey everyone, this is Miz Moffatt from Across
the Litoverse,
and welcome to another Friday Reads,
now featuring a RAGING SINUS COLD!
YAAAY.
I am having a rough year when it comes to
my health.
Regular viewers might recall that I had a post-convention
cold in September,
and I have yet another post-convention cold
right now.
This time around, our flight was delayed, so we didn’t arrive until 3:30 AM in Winnipeg—
and then we had to be at the convention centre by noon to start set-up.
It sucked.
A lot.
As you can imagine, I’ll be laying low this
weekend,
and I’ve got my sights on a few books
in the meantime.
First up, I have Warcross by Marie Lu.
I’m at the halfway point of this book,
and I’m liking it so far.
I’m finding the story itself feels like
a standard YA novel—
a girl is plucked from obscurity,
she’s unaware of her special abilities and
needs to save the world,
and there’s a powerful boy who might have the
hots for her,
and she simultaneously hates him and lusts
after him.
You know, as you do.
That being said, I do like the tech in Warcross.
I’ve read a fair number of books about immersive
technology,
and I like that fact that people in this world can use that tech to modify the world around them,
and that it’s not just limited to the game
world.
It’s been a quick read so far, and entertaining,
so no complaints there.
I also started reading Side Hustle by Chris
Guillebeau at long last.
I don’t often read business books,
so I’m not as familiar with their style,
but it feels like this one could have been
shorter.
There’s a LOT of repetition  posing
as summaries—
I wonder if a book like this would benefit
from being under 200 pages.
I know business books are meant to be easily
digested
and boiled down to salient points
(given business folks are pressed for time),
but this one gets oddly wordy at points?
That being said, I like how Guillebeau gives
you the small steps you need to accomplish
before launching a side hustle.
He’s also clearly a fan of lists, and I
am too,
so that's a good fit on that front.
But yeah, I’m curious to know how the rest
of this book plays out too!
And last, I do need to start a re-read of Fahrenheit
451 by Ray Bradbury.
I bet you’re jealous of my retro cover, ah
yeah.
The only acceptable movie cover.
I've read this book many times, and my book
club picked it for our November meeting—
and really, any excuse to re-read Fahrenheit 451
is welcome by me.
And now, I believe I will go lie down somewhere
and think healthy thoughts.
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On that–okay, wah…
Wah, I blinked!
Weirdly!
