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bloodygranuaile So, reports of my death and/or abandonment of this spiffy lil blogging project have been greatly exaggerated.
Why, then, you may ask, have I not posted in so darn long? Surely I have not gone an entire month without reading a book?
The Seven forbid! What I have been doing, curious and/or indifferent readers, is rereading the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series in preparation for July 12th's release of A Dance with Dragons. Since I have already read the first four books, I was planning on just doing one big blog post after I'd reread the lot, and doing a second blog post for ADWD since that one will be a new read. I partly planned this because I cannot seem to bring myself to waste time pounding on the keyboard when I finish one volume instead of moving on IMMEDIATELY IF NOT SOONER to the next one. They are that addictive. And they always end in really cliffhangery places.
I was sort of going to do a post when the first season of Game of Thrones finished airing on HBO, but I got distracted getting one of my new roommates hooked on True Blood instead. Bwahaha. Perhaps I will discuss it later. Perhaps I will also discuss Season 4 of True Blood, when I can move my brain beyond "WHAT 80S GOTH BILL WHAT" and kind of a o.O face.
Why, then, you may ask, have I not posted in so darn long? Surely I have not gone an entire month without reading a book?
The Seven forbid! What I have been doing, curious and/or indifferent readers, is rereading the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series in preparation for July 12th's release of A Dance with Dragons. Since I have already read the first four books, I was planning on just doing one big blog post after I'd reread the lot, and doing a second blog post for ADWD since that one will be a new read. I partly planned this because I cannot seem to bring myself to waste time pounding on the keyboard when I finish one volume instead of moving on IMMEDIATELY IF NOT SOONER to the next one. They are that addictive. And they always end in really cliffhangery places.
I was sort of going to do a post when the first season of Game of Thrones finished airing on HBO, but I got distracted getting one of my new roommates hooked on True Blood instead. Bwahaha. Perhaps I will discuss it later. Perhaps I will also discuss Season 4 of True Blood, when I can move my brain beyond "WHAT 80S GOTH BILL WHAT" and kind of a o.O face.
Anyway, here are Fun Facts in My Life as A Giant Dorky ASoIaF Fangirl:
-GRRM is doing a signing in Burlington, MA on the 12th. I will be there. Wild direwolves couldn't keep me away.
-Twice recently on the subway, I have been reading one of these books and someone reading *the same book* gets on the T and stands RIGHT NEXT TO ME. I am generally not a "talk to strangers on the subway" type of person and I usually disapprove of interrupting people who are reading, but both times I just HAD to be all like "I like your choice of reading material and I hope you are enjoying it!" (I am also seeing a lot of people reading Harry Potter, presumably in preparation for the last movie. I want to reread that whole series too, but ASoIaF is more important.)
-I recently realized that the motto of House Targaryen is "Fire and Blood" and the motto of the Salvation Army is "Blood and Fire," and I wonder if GRRM did this on purpose.
-Apparently, the day after Ned Stark got Boromired on AGoT, some dude stabbed Sean Bean with a broken bottle outside a pub, and Sean Bean just went back inside and got another drink. This has nothing to do with me but I figured I'd pass it on as a warning to anyone who was ever planning to mess with the King of Dying Really Medieval Deaths.
Anyway, I am going to return to basically shooting up on black-tar Westeros, and I will see you all when I, or more likely a strung-out shell of my former self, re-emerge shaking and sweating from my fangirl junkie haze sometime after next week.
