Back from Vacation

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Back from vacation.  Checked in a bit while I was gone via borrowed ipad (and damn its autocorrect feature.  It results in some odd posts).

It was a little cool for Florida for mid- May.  But other than running somewhat cooler than normal the weather was lovely.

Ate a lot of shrimp and crab.  Looked at a lot of water.  Read Book II and  started Book III of the "Game of Thrones"/A Song of Ice and Fire series. 

I think I may have to take a break and read something happier though because, damn, this is one bleak set of books.  Someone tell me, does something good ever happen to any of the characters I like?  Does something good happen ever?

At this point, I hate Cersei and Joffrey with the heat of a thousand suns.  Really.  I haaaaaate them.  I've warmed toward Catelyn and Sansa.  If I'm going to fall for Jaime Lannister...well, he's still has a long row to hoe because he still seems very much an entitled ass to me, one with a very cock-eyed view of the world that still seems quite odd as I understand it  

Love Tyrion, though.  Love.  Which brings me back to... did I mention that I hate, loathe, and despise Queen Cersei  (though I think if she has one quasi-sympathetic trait it's that she's constantly being underestimated because guys are too busy thinking that she's 'just a woman' to recognize that bitch has plans and bitch executes them in a timely manner.  She shouldn't be underestimated.   But... I still hate her).

I still think I'm going to have to take a break though.   It's a weird contradiction in that reading the books is addictive.  You just keep turning the page wanting more.  It's when I close the book and think about it later it strikes me that for allllll the pages I've read, not all that much has happened and what did happen was relentlessly upsetting..., so why do I feel so compelled to read more so quickly?  What has happened,  is almost relentlessly, ubiquitously dark... and then I find myself reading more,

I think I may need a happy book break before going back to the machinations in these books.  I need a dose of something frivolous and happy (which brings to mind the "Raising Hope" season finale and Jimmy's 'emo goth' phase as Drakkar Noir.  Heh.  Nice finale).