Damn You Diana Gabaldon!!!!

Diana Gabaldon's new book is out, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, and I will be returning my copy to the library today for two reasons:

- I need to get some sleep.
- I will be going out and buying it... probably this weekend.

How is this book interfering with my sleep?
Well, I do have these random boughts of mild insomnia where I have a hard time getting to sleep, but once I am asleep, I can stay asleep for DAYS. I am experiencing this phenomenon right now. I don't know what causes it... it could be the weather, the moon or that mysterious point in my menstrual cycle that says "I'm going to fuck with you now" or some bizaare combination of the three.

This little problem is worse if if I have a good book to read. A good and very LONG book.

This book is just shy of 1000 pages and in the past I have been listening to the recorded versions because the books are rather heavy and don't exactly fit in my purse. So if I actually read the books I do so at home and my preffered reading time is... you guessed it, right before I go to sleep.

I was on the waiting list at the library for the unabridged audio (abridged books are a waste of my time...) and I was so anxious to get into the story that I reserved the book as well. Guess which came in for me first? Yup.... 3lbs of printed sleepless nights.

Now that I have the CD's (Davina Porter is the best reader by the way...) I will be listening to them in the car. All 48 of them. Then Kenny will be fighting me for them. I will start to look forward to spending a total of an hour and a half in the car each day just so I can hear what happens next and my commute won't seem quite so bad for a few weeks. I will hopefully be able to get some sleep, though some nights you may find me sitting in my car in the driveway just so I can listen to "one more chapter" before going into the house.

If you haven't read these books yet, I highly recommend them. Who among you do I think will enjoy these most? I''m betting Sharon, Carrie, Carla and Dawn would most likely dig these... especially Dawn... I ken ye have a fancy for all things Scottish, no? These books have just the right amount of drama, violence, fantasy, and sex in them, and the author is a bigger stickler for historical acurracy than I am... well except for the whole time travel thing... that isn't terribly accurate, but who am I to say such things can't happen?