Flight into Fantasy

Happy Sunday, everyone! If you have a partner, I hope you’re enjoying your Valentine’s Day. If you, like me, do not, I hope you’re at least going to buy yourself some chocolate.

Sorry for the stream-of-conscious rambling style of this post. I can’t be bothered to write a coherent essay. I’ve been feeling low-grade nausea all day, and I’m really hoping I’m not about to get sick, because that would suck.

Around the blogosphere this week I’ve noticed a few conversations about cliques in blogland. To be honest, I think cliques happen no matter what community you belong to. It’s just how people operate. And I take a pretty zen view of the whole thing. I know I’m small potatoes in blogland, and I’m cool with that. I could probably increase my page ranking, do more contests, etc. if I wanted to. But I don’t really feel the need. And I consider a handful of bloggers and authors to be friends, but I don’t want to make my blog a popularity contest. I don’t have the time in the first place, and in the second, I don’t know what I’d do with minions and fangirls if I had them.

Of course, sometimes those sentiments are a little easier to maintain than at other times. For example, all the talk on the blogosphere about the book blogger convention does depress me. I am a poor college student. I simply can’t afford to go, and even if I did go, while it would be awesome to meet my fellow book bloggers, I’d still have to deal with the fact that I’d be going to New York. By myself. As a blind person. Even the thought makes my introverted soul weep a little. But man, it would be so much fun to get together and talk about books with other people who are as passionate about them as I am! And, since there aren’t many local bloggers in my area–if there are any at all–it’s never going to happen, and that thought does depress me, because I do feel like I’ll always be on the outside looking in.

Anyway, enough about that. I wanted to start keeping better track of what I’m currently reading, more for my own reference than anything else.

Books I need to review:

• Eye of Heaven by Marjorie Liu

Books I’m currently reading:

• Fugitive by Cheryl Brooks – I’m a little over halfway through this one, so I’ll probably finish it today I love Brooks’s cheesy futuristic romance series, but this one suffers from plotting that’s all over the place. Also, the sex scenes are increasingly unsexy.
• Bitterwood by James Maxey: This is a validation for Bookshare. It’s surprisingly good so far, but I’m not far into it.
• Love by Toni Morrison: I got this from the Library, and I’m not sure whether I’m going to finish it. It has an interesting premise, and God knows I don’t read enough books by and about people of color, but I’m just not in the mood for something so literary.

So that’s my Sunday. How are the rest of you? Read anything awesome lately?