I admit, sometimes my choice of what to read next is based completely on how much anxiety the premise of the book induces. Sometimes high stakes, death-around-every-corner is just not for me, and I’ll opt for a memoir or biography or other work of nonfiction, which usually keeps me calm (except for you, Black Hawk Down, but really, I should have known better). I’ve also discovered books about treating and coping with anxiety gives me anxiety- how’s that for a catch-22? Sometimes I feel like the best course of action is to just keep telling myself I don’t have anxiety, and I’ll start to feel better, because thinking about it certainly makes it worse.
But we’re not here to talk about neurological problems! Unless, of course, you’d like to, in which case drop me a line. We’re here to talk about the books that are a mix of high stakes, deathly deatherson, and have been hyped up so much that I’m afraid I won’t like them (A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue has left me with an anti-hype disorder I’m having trouble overcoming). There’s other reasons, too, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
In other news I have two days off in a row this week and I feel like Jack on the Titanic right now, though if I flung my arms wide and started shouting my cat would be very disappointed in me.
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