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it is a wednesday
1. Well I spoke too soon. I had a fever again yesterday (very low), and I feel kinda crummy today without having a fever. Clearly this is still a process, and I'm not going to post any more pronouncements about how I'm feeling better unless it's been two weeks of no fever and feeling better. LOL
2. So all these stationery blogs I read also talk about fancy pencils, and they have been slowly snookering me into thinking I need to be writing with fancy pencils. Which is ludicrous. I do not write with pencils. I do not need fancy pencils. Fortunately, my friend M has some fancy pencils she let me borrow today, and I am relieved to say that they are indeed just fucking pencils (no matter how fancy) that I do not need or want to write with on a regular basis, and my desire for fancy pencils has been successfully exorcised. I feel like I deserve some sort of award for this achievement.
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The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a really satisfying conclusion to this series.
I have really enjoyed Apollo learning empathy and kindness and developing genuine friendships. I speculated very early on in the series that he would actually chose to remain mortal (at least for a time), and I'm kind of disappointed that he didn't, but overall, I like where his character ends up.
I was also a little disappointed that Jason stays dead, but since the next books seem to be gearing up for Nico and Will to have an underworld adventure (it's to rescue Bob, right? OMG, I hope so; I cried so hard when he sacrificed himself), maybe he will at least make a future appearance.
Riordan is really prolific, so I have every reason to believe that he wrote this book immediately before it was published in 2020. I can't help but think that just like the rest of us needed to read it, he needed to write something about hope and coming out the other side of suffering into something better. This is a book about choosing to do good (to be good) in difficult time. I really needed to laugh and cry and feel like it's possible for things to get better again; this was a good book for making me feel that way.
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2. So all these stationery blogs I read also talk about fancy pencils, and they have been slowly snookering me into thinking I need to be writing with fancy pencils. Which is ludicrous. I do not write with pencils. I do not need fancy pencils. Fortunately, my friend M has some fancy pencils she let me borrow today, and I am relieved to say that they are indeed just fucking pencils (no matter how fancy) that I do not need or want to write with on a regular basis, and my desire for fancy pencils has been successfully exorcised. I feel like I deserve some sort of award for this achievement.
3.
The Tower of Nero by Rick RiordanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a really satisfying conclusion to this series.
I have really enjoyed Apollo learning empathy and kindness and developing genuine friendships. I speculated very early on in the series that he would actually chose to remain mortal (at least for a time), and I'm kind of disappointed that he didn't, but overall, I like where his character ends up.
I was also a little disappointed that Jason stays dead, but since the next books seem to be gearing up for Nico and Will to have an underworld adventure (it's to rescue Bob, right? OMG, I hope so; I cried so hard when he sacrificed himself), maybe he will at least make a future appearance.
Riordan is really prolific, so I have every reason to believe that he wrote this book immediately before it was published in 2020. I can't help but think that just like the rest of us needed to read it, he needed to write something about hope and coming out the other side of suffering into something better. This is a book about choosing to do good (to be good) in difficult time. I really needed to laugh and cry and feel like it's possible for things to get better again; this was a good book for making me feel that way.
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Just like there is a fountain pen community, there's a pencil community, mostly focused on graphite pencils with some colored pencils thrown in. This is adjacent to the artist community in that some people are also artists, but the primary focus is on using the pencils to write with. The big favorite seems to be various iterations of the Palomino Blackwing.
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I just googled Palomino Blackwing and I came upon Pencils.com, and it's like there's this whole new world that I was unaware of.
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Same with pens and with paper. Three different fandoms, and the center of the Venn Diagram where they converge is huge.
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Ha! I was just telling G. about your brief foray into fancy pencils and she said, "oh, what kind did she try? Blackwing?"
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The pencil is known.
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It sounds like a My Little Pony!
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