Passing Time

Finished watching the last episode of Sherlock, and holy shit it was amazing. It had quite a lot of unexpected events, and I just thrilled to see how it would all conclude. Then there's that cliff-hanger ending giving me promise of a new season... though I have no idea when that'll come out.

I've been playing PC games while not-working. I have this RPG my friend bought for me 2 years ago, but I never finished playing due to exams or some shit. Anyway, 2 years on I still think it's fucking amazing, so I played it again from scratch, because my save file has disappeared. I think overall I don't really mind single-player games. When I'm done with this I'll hop on my xbox and play some Fable, and that'll consume the rest of my free time, probably.

I haven't really been studying much, because it just bores me. Two pages into my textbook and I confirm that I am not interested. I tried to read Inheritance again the other day- it was still a piece of shit, no surprise there. I've come to terms with myself- it's just a terrible book I will never be able to get through. So I dropped that and tried reading the 2nd book in Fifty Shades of Gray (or was it Grey). You must be laughing by now- "you thought a book was shit, so you stopped reading it and tried to read Fifty Shades?" But yeah that's pretty much what happened, and I couldn't get through Fifty Shades either. I didn't remember it being quite so terrible- but it's like watching the nature channel and seeing sea leopards mate- except I'm reading and the animals mating are human.

Anyway I threw that aside soon after, and I'm looking at my copy of His Dark Materials, wondering if I could get back to it. According to my bookmark I am about 1/11 of the way through, but at this stage I feel a bit of doubt as to whether I can actually finish it. I always thought reading was one of my primary hobbies, but maybe I've grown to hate it. I don't know. I think I should just escape back to my fantasy novels and stop struggling with books I think I have to read for whatever social protocol. Brent Weeks, my favourite author, is releasing another book this year- it'll be late into the year, but still I look forward to it eagerly.

For the time being I might just start on The Wiseman's Fear, which is the sequel to one of the books I really liked when I was in year 8. I'll just watch some TV show or anime if reading really doesn't work out.