Well, that was a longer break from the Salon than I intended. I was a bit surprised to see that my last proper post was on 13 September and here we are on 1 November with Halloween out of the way, Guy Fawkes on the horizon and *whispers* Christmas just around the corner.
I mention Christmas only because today also marks the beginning of a book buying embargo. Because the Book God and I tend to buy each other books and DVDs and music for Christmas we have a deal that from 1 November until Boxing Day we don’t buy ourselves anything so that we can swap extensive Wish Lists. So, yesterday I bought the last book for myself before presents are exchanged, John Connolly’s Night Music: Nocturnes 2. I’m usually pretty good at sticking to this self-imposed ban, and the only exceptions are those books I’ve pre-ordered but not yet received, so new things will appear, just not unplanned purchases.
Since I last wrote a proper post I have read the princely sum of 2.5 books. Dreadful really considering that I was on holiday in Vienna for 10 days and I usually do a lot of reading when I’m away, but not this year. The reading slump is still fully in place but I’m beginning to feel vague stirrings that as the cooler weather arrives I will turn to books more and more.
And I want to blog more regularly too, so I really need to get the reading muscles exercised or I will have nothing to talk about 🙂
Vienna was fantastic, by the way!
Bride of the Book God 
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November 1, 2015 at 7:42 pm
Bryan G. Robinson
Two things :).
1. What were the 2.5 books you did read?
2. Where are the photos of Vienna?
November 2, 2015 at 7:26 am
brideofthebookgod
Weill Bryan, I read (and have reviewed here) In Plain Sight (non-fiction) and Osiris (science fiction) and am half way through My Bloody Valentine, a serial killer police procedural. I have posted a lot of pictures on my Facebook page (you are welcome to friend me) and I’m thinking about how best to capture the holiday (which was fab!) in blog form.
November 2, 2015 at 3:07 pm
Bryan G. Robinson
I’ll check them out. Thanks…and look forward to seeing the photos later.
November 2, 2015 at 12:22 am
Molly
Yes… I’d love to hear about Vienna 🙂
November 2, 2015 at 7:27 am
brideofthebookgod
Hi Molly, as I said in reply to Bryan I am thinking about how to talk about Vienna. I set up a new blog for stuff that isn’t about books and movies and may write a few posts there 🙂
November 3, 2015 at 2:49 am
Jenny @ Reading the End
I shrieked aloud in triumph when I learned about your buying embargo. My family institutes a buying embargo after Thanksgiving, where nobody who attends family Christmas is permitted to buy anything for themselves at all until Christmas. And there is some rumbling amongst CERTAIN FAMILY MEMBERS that this is too long a period for the buying embargo. Though in my opinion it is probably not long ENOUGH. So this is v. validating to learn. 😀
November 3, 2015 at 7:56 am
brideofthebookgod
Excellent! We are both smart and sensible, and I don’t get why other people don’t do this, makes Christmas anticipation so much better. Though I tend to be straight on the internet on Boxing Day to get the stuff I wanted but no-one bought me 🙂 But that’s a win-win, right?