Raw Data:
Novels - 9 ↓
Short Stories - 0 -
Manga/Graphic Novels - 0 -
Comics - 1 -
Average Rating - 2.85 ↓
Pages - 3385 ↑
Words - 1250K ↑
The Bad:
Resolve of Immortal Flesh - 2star dnf of plain old fashioned bad writing
Rise of the Warrior Cop - 1star dnf of a lying scumbag drug junkie
Tower Lord - 1star dnf of moral perversion
The Good:
Stone of Farewell - 5stars of Fantasy Done Right
Tower of Silence - 4stars of Fantasy (almost) Done Right
Miscellaneous Posts:
- Daylight Saving - But Who Will Save Us?
- Island Sanctuary - MTG 4E
- Currently Reading: Joshua
- By Mine Own Right Arm...
- Ivory Cup - MTG 4E
- Ivory Tower - MTG 4E
- SciFiMonth Friday Fives: Strange New Worlds
- 12 Years and Counting
- Jade Monolith - MTG 4E
- Happy Thanksgiving 2025
Personal:
Oh hurray, another guy has started at my work place. I am calling him Short Guy, because he's only 5'4", which means he's my height, which is great for working. He has previous Land Survey experience and is in his late 20's, so those are both big checks in his favor. After my last disastrous experience with the Tattle Tale Guy who told my boss everything I said to him, I am reserving judgement AND keeping my lip buttoned up a lot tighter. Short Guy doesn't seem like a whiny complainer Gen Z'er, but fool me once. I remain hopeful though. But just in case you think it is ALL peaches and roses, he talks. We had a job 75 minutes away from the office one week. He talked the entire time there AND the entire time back. Non-stop verbal diarrhea about everything. All I had to do was say the occasional "uh uh, yep, oh that's interesting" and he just kept on going. How is it physically possible to even talk that much? I am hoping that my natural close mouthedness will rub off on him, once he runs out of original things to say. My fear is that he'll turn into one of those people who tell the same stories time after time because they just have to have words coming out of their mouths. I'll know for sure by New Years either way.
The Time Change at the beginning of the month took me a week to adjust to. I kept waking up at 4am and my body wanted to fall asleep by 8pm. It was not a fun week. Thankfully, once "I" got the message, things settled right down into the new time routine.
Partway through the month I came down with the flu, possibly covid. Either way, it was fever, headache, sore throat, muscle and joint pain and enough snot to make even Slimer go "ewwwww". I was out of work for 3 days because all I could do was lie on the couch, taking pain reliever and drinking hot tea. Once the fever and aches went away, I had to deal with a lingering cough. That sucker kept waking me up during the night every 30-90minutes. It was a 2 week process from start to finish and just tore me down to the foundations.
This past Thursday was Thanksgiving, and since I also had Friday off, meant I had a four day weekend this weekend. I really needed it just to finish up my recovery from being sick.
Went out to a Mexican/American place for Date Night with Mrs B. Had a good time talking and she gave me her thoughts on my taking a break from blogging in January. That was extremely helpful to me, as it gave me a place to work from. I've been feeling burnt out on blogging and several weeks of not writing seems like what I need most. How exactly that will work out is still to be determined, but I have the "big picture" now, which is already helping me.
Bookwise, my reading slowed down a lot. It wasn't helped that I had 3(!!!!!!!) dnf's this month, which totally tanked my average rating. April was the only month this year that has a lower average book rating than this one :-( With that said, my page and word count still went up because I read some big ol' chunksters and even taking the dnf's into account, I still read a lot of pages. The stress of "reading more" was taken care of by not posting on Wednesdays. That really helped a lot and is one of the factors that made me realize I need to stop blogging for a bit. I have a feeling my reading numbers will drop in December, but I'm really ok with that at the moment.
I did manage to participate in SciFiMonth2025 this year with a non-review post. Thank goodness for the Friday Five theme posts! I really wish I could have participated more, but the reading cards said "no" and who am I to disagree? Hehehehe. At least I got to use the cool banner, which is the main reason I wanted to participate in the first place :-D
Cover Love:
The Hand of Fu-Manchu is deliciously creepy. Sadly, this was the best and largest version I could find online.
Plans for Next Month:
READ LESS SO I DON'T HAVE TO WRITE REVIEWS. I know, that seems obvious to you, right? Well, it doesn't to me because I read so much (usually) and I record everything I read. So my goal is to deliberately cut down on my reading in December. Which I'm hoping will lead to a few more creative posts. Which actually leads into my next paragraph very well.
Let the Barbara Cartland Buddy Read begin! The schedule for A Rainbow to Heaven is as follows:
- Chapters 1-3 discussion post on Friday, December 5th
- Chapters 4-6 discussion post on Friday, December 12th
- Chapters 7-9 discussion post on Friday, December 19th
- Chapters 10-12 discussion post on Friday, December 26th
- Book Review post on Friday, January 2nd 2026
Which means you have this week to read the first 3 chapters and write a post about it. I think this is what is going to monopolize most of my time in December. Given how November went for reading, having some light romance to browse through each week is something I am looking forward to. Unencumbered, uncomplicated and a happy ending. Please be sure to add the tag "Barbara Cartland Buddy Read" to any posts to make it easier for anyone else to find your posts on the WP Reader.
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