The Book Babe’s Blog

It’s been a while since I posted and I realized that by not posting very often I get asked the same questions like a billion times so I had better stop slacking and post more if I want to avoid that scenario. And, since I don’t have the time to say the same thing a billion times, here is a new update. Not that I blame you all for wanting to know…

Radiation has been going well. Annoying that it is every day but still better than chemo. The fatigue part catches up with me more often than not. But instead of being tired all the time as with the chemo, I merely get tired easily. That being said, I have still been busy. Now that I am feeling better I am almost never home, I have been spending a lot of time out with friends or training for the 3 day. The latter takes up most of my evenings but I totally love it. Last night I did a 5 mile and it started raining about halfway through. It was great! I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it and so did the other girls that were with me.

Sci-fi looking machine that I keep hoping will give me super powers but so far I got nothing

So here is what the radiation machine looks like. The top part radiates, the thing on the right scans, not sure what it scans for. I don’t know what the arm on the left does. I should care but I don’t. It is freaking huge and probably costs more than I have made my entire life. That being said, it keeps breaking. Which means that, depending on what part stops working, treatments that are only supposed to take 2o minutes some times take 10 and sometimes take an hour. It is kind of funny actually how often it happens. Here is a typical treatment. in case you care. I lay on the table and the techs lift it up and in so I am in between the 3 arms. I have these little tattoos that they line up with some weird light that looks like green cross hairs. Then they leave the room and close the giant door that looks like it would hold back a wave of zombies. And then the machine rotates, scans and radiates according to the plan they set up for me. It is not painful, merely tedious. The tech ladies are super nice, just like every one at the clinic. I also really like my radiologist even though he is not-hot. Very sad.

I have been able to read more, here are some books that I am loving currently

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins ~ This was of course as incredible as I was hoping it would be. I loved Hunger Games but was a bit skeptical that this one would be as fabulous. Totally worth having in Hardcover.

Hourglass Door by Lisa Mangum ~ After reading boring arc after boring arc, I finally came across this one. The generic plot  is a love story but it is incredibly well done, interesting and well written. A fantastic debut by a wonderfully talented writer. I highly recommend it.

Soulless by Gail Carriger ~ I had so much fun reading this book. It has been a while since I have read such a fun adult book. It is an amusing romp through a Victorian London where vampires and werewolves have “come out” so to speak. It is fairly predictable but because it is a ton of fun, it does not matter in the least. This one comes out in paperback at the end of the month and if you like the supernatural, you will enjoy this one.

I am currently reading a bunch of other stuff that all seems pretty good but we will see…