Last night's book

I've been binging on reading a bit, since it had been such a long time since I've read anything. Last night I picked up Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald. I intended to put the book down after a couple of chapters, since it was already after eleven pm. Every chapter I finished, I told myself "just one more". As you will already have guessed, I stayed up and read the whole thing.

It's a dark and engrossing story set in a bleak place at a very bleak time. Each chapter seemed to reveal something new about the family, until by the end of the book almost nothing was as it had seemed in the beginning. I'm still mulling it over.

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I was looking forward to seeing Christine tonight: she called yesterday to ask me for help with her Palm Pilot (it didn't want to communicate with the PC), and I said I'd come over and look into it. She just called to say that Kirk has fixed the problem, and she's really too busy to just hang out and talk. So I have decided to stay away from the computer tonight until late, and go out shopping and to see Lord of the Rings again. I want to see the Two Towers trailer.

I am going to try to wean myself from Wednesday night gaming permanently. I had so much more time to accomplish things when I was not playing three nights a week. I feel like all my free time (and some that really isn't very free) is going to gaming. While I really love it, I just can't afford to tie myself up so much.