I wore a jacket today. Of course, that’s the closest thing to exciting that happened all day.
I did finish reading N.K. Jemsin’s Hugo-nominated novel The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, which was part of the voter packet, for the awards I ended up not voting on. I actually finished reading the novel last night, except for a couple of lines, but my e-book app suggested I still had several pages to go. Had I actually flipped those pages, I would have discovered they were taken up mostly with (fairly unnecessary) glossaries and other appendices.
Still, I liked the book. It’s inventive and entertaining, imagining not just a fantasy world but a cosmology of gods and gods imprisoned in semi-mortal form. I’m not rushing on to read the sequel — which, as I understand it, takes place in the same world but is a stand-alone book — but mostly just because I need a brief break from fantasy novels.
I started Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder this morning.