Long Read the King

Finally finished reading Stephen King's The Stand.  I won't tell how long it took.  It's too painful thinking about it.  One has a suspicion that it took me longer to read it than King took to read it.

Usually I split up gigantic novels into sections.  Easily done with The Stand as there are headed parts.

For Don Quixote, The Lord of the Rings and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; my plan was to ease my digestion of them.  But for King I felt I should tackle this one feat in one go.

But I also went for it in one pace.

My manager Simon encourages me to read Stephen King's It next.  Or at least closer to Halloween.

Have you seen the size of It?  The book is huge.  You certainly get your £9.99's (Waterstones price) worth.  And with the promise not to buy any more books until I finish my current collection, to the library it may be.  Considering they only lease the book for three weeks, I'll have to speed up my pace and almost calculate how many pages per day I should read.

This does meet the over thinking standards of a Virgo.

On Wednesday Michelle, Conor and I had dinner at Chopin Grand Cafe.  Joanna the owner, and personal friend, wasn't present.  But with cheap champagne and loose sexuality morality (I'm talking completely of myself here) our night was sweet.  Our sophisticated banter should be Scissor Sisters' song any day soon.

And another happy note.  Natalie bought me Adventure Time Monopoly.  That's sure to brighten up any day or night.

Even if I play by myself.

Late birthday presents are the best.