Well, the couples didn't bite or make me feel like an inadequate excuse for a person, although there was an excess of Athlete and Snow Patrol on hand to make me want to top myself anyway. No no, I jest. It was a lovely evening, but kid-orientated enough to make me think that I *really* don't want any just yet. They make you pretty neurotic, it seems, and that's one quality that I don't need bumping up at the moment.I keep having small anxiety attacks and fits of misery over nothing, I'm tired all the time, big groups of people give me the heebie-jeebies, I can't even *imagine* picking up my books again and writing a 20,000 dissertation... don't know what to do really. Why I am sometimes fine and sometimes not?Book 49: Girl in Landscape by Jonathan LethemThis is the fourth Lethem book I've read, and he still seems almost like a different author each time. It's an impressive skill, but it means I haven't really decided whether I like him or not (though perhaps that doesn't matter). This is a sci-fi type book, a fairly ordinary genre scenario of a family leaving a damaged, inhospitable Earth for a new life on another planet. The other planet is distinctly odd though, even for sci-fi. I didn't really like its whimsical characteristics, which sat sort of oddly with the potentially dark plot - all frontier hardship, mistrust, puberty, sex and violence.Tags: 50 Book Challenge 13:08 . . .
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