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Ordered some books last week, about a year and a half since the last time I did something like this, and I just got them today, so I’ll finally have something to read once again, at least for a while. I’m talking about A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, The Born Queen by Greg Keyes, and Victory of Eagles and Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik. This means that I’ll finally be able to get to the end of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, some two and a half years after reading The Blood Knight and a good six years after first discovering the series by reading The Briar King and The Charnel Prince, so this is what I plan to start with. Then I’ll probably move on to the two from the Temeraire series, leaving that monster of a fifth book from A Song of Ice and Fire last. After all, considering the mind-boggling scope and complexity of that series, I’ll need to look up some events and characters before picking it back up anyway, so there’s no loss if I’ll wait a while longer and in fact it could be a good thing to finish the others first, so I’ll be able to take it more slowly with this one and reduce the risk of missing things.

The order was placed through a company that I hadn’t ordered anything from before, namely the Romanian branch of Books Express. That meant that I was slightly suspicious at first, not knowing what they were all about, but they gained a fair amount of points from me when I sent them an e-mail about A Dance with Dragons around 3 AM and they replied within about 30 minutes, if not less, and also immediately updated the information on the site, since the number of pages that’s usually listed for this edition is wrong. I placed the order immediately after that and have been very pleased with how it worked out, so I’ll probably look here first from now on, especially since their prices for the readily available books are very close to what you’d need to pay if you’d be ordering them from abroad yourself, and sometimes even less than that. And they seem to throw in a free bookmark for every book you purchase, since there were four of them in the parcel, which is a very simple but still pretty nice touch as well.

It’ll take some willpower not to start reading any of them this week, but that’s the plan. I obviously kept putting everything off and do need to write something this week as well, so that must take priority, plus that yesterday I found myself needing to leave my room for a couple of hours, went to buy a few more things, since I seem to be able to do that reasonably well lately as long as it doesn’t require any actual interaction, and happened to find a little book about healthy eating that’s very appreciated around here, so I bought it. Thought I’d give it to dad, since he keeps marking such articles in newspapers and saving them, and in fact did so yesterday, but he just left it on top of the pile of newspapers last night and I took it to quickly go through at least the more generic parts of it as well, just to see what it’s all about. So I’ll do this and figure out a way to write a non-personal post, even if it’ll only be a short one, by the end of the week and only then start reading these books I ordered.