what's wrong with being confident?

song+ Confident -Demi Lovato -Confident
book+ Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan
quest+ living shiny!dex with Rory
upper+ good books to read
downer+ zombie!brain from poor sleeping
attire+ leggings, jean skirt and a Supergirl tee
drink+ Dr Pepper

ugh. mornings are hard, especially after getting distracted and reading until 1am. yesterday i fought most of the day with a headache cause by light sensitivity. my (moderately successful) solution was to go upstairs and lay in bed reading in just enough indirect light to make out the words on my kindle without squinting. i was gonna reread Percy Jackson so i could move on and (finally) finish Heroes of Olympus while accurately remembering events leading to it, but i got distracted by the short stories i'd downloaded that fill in gaps. they were entertaining, then i read the start of the newest series (the Norse one) instead. one book seemed a better undertaking than ten last night. i'll probably get back to it tonight after gaming, i've enjoyed talking them over with mom as she progresses through them.

i've read PJ before, i read them as they came out, and kept up with HoO about halfway, then i realized i get less frustrated if i wait one long time and binge everything than i do waiting multiple short times. the wait for the series to finish was enough that i can't recall if i read two HoO books and a preview for the third, or if i read three, or if it was two and the internet told me spoilers from the rest. so obviously the answer is to just start over from the beginning and read it all at once.. which unfortunately takes a little longer than i was up for last night.

i don't know why, but i've been (pleasantly) surprised every time i read one of his other-pantheon books and it finds a way to tie into the PJ/HoO narrative without depending on it like a crutch. Carter Kane (from the Egyptian series; the Kane Chronicles) looks out his window at one point and thinks he's hallucinating a flying horse, which is actually Percy's battle mount from the climax of one of his books. it was so subtle i didn't even realize what i was reading at first. in Sword of Summer, it took me until a third of the way through the book to realize that the cousin Annabeth that Magnus Chase was remembering in a childhood flashback was Percy's Annabeth, Annabeth Chase. same last name and i didn't even think of it because even though it's their mortal parents that were siblings, WHY would i default to thinking Greek and Norse demigods would be related in any way?