It's been a long, exhausting day today, but I'm proud of myself for my laps, lack of caffeine, a proper lunch and reading such a wonderful book today.
I've popped my last two pills of the day and I'm heading to bed now. I'm seeing a "dispenser" tomorrow afternoon so that I can choose the frames for my reading glasses.
I'll see you all in the morning.
Nite nite orl
⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5
If you've read any of my other more recent book reviews, you'll already have seen that I start the first paragraph of in the same way, by saying that every book I read and review, starts off with the full support of 5 stars and I'm always hopeful that they will all still be firmly in place by the time I close the back cover. You'll also know that I'm not shy about removing stars and that trademark and copyright are the usual reason for removing a star from an otherwise 5 star book. I've rapidly replaced a star twice when there's been a magic little sentence either right at the start or right at the end of the book and I'm more than happy to do it again if that sentence is there.
Let's get going with the reading and reviewing, shall we?
It's a relatively short book at only 169 pages and it sounds like it could be a bit of a sad book too, but I'm hoping it'll give me an insight into what people are going through when they make the choice to have an assisted death.
The first chapter has introduced me to Ruedi and I'm already enjoying it after only one chapter... one question though, do they use francs in Switzerland instead of Euros? I though it was only the French who used francs before the Euro was introduced!
I'm up to chapter 3 at page 16 and I'm really enjoying it so far. It'll break my heart before the end though, 'cos I'm already starting to feel heartbroken for some of the characters!
Time for lunch before I start sobbing my heart out uncontrollably now I think.
Back now and I'm intending to read one more chapter before I stop for my physio then I'll spend the rest of the afternoon reading until I head to bed.
Up to chapter 4 and the next chapters seem to sound like an emotional rollercoaster, so I'm gonna stop there and let my lunch go down a bit before I start sobbing. This is a truly incredible book so far and I've only read 19 pages!
I'm starting to get to know two of the characters through chapter 4 but I'm gonna stop commenting on every chapter otherwise this book will never get read and this review will never end! Only the bigger points I want to make starting from now.
Up to chapter 21 now and the huge paragraphs of italics is very hard to read and kinda takes some of the pleasure out of what I'm trying to read... still five stars, but only just now.
There have been potential brand name mentions that I'm not sure of, so that and the blocks of italics mean that the first star is heart-breakingly coming off at chapter 21.
Just finished reading and I'm in floods of tears, but it was a perfect ending to a pretty-much perfect book. One of those "shoulda been 5 stars" books again.
I've got a "dispenser" coming out tomorrow afternoon to help me to choose my new reading glasses frames and he could turn up anywhere from midday to 5.30pm so I'm not gonna do my laps tomorrow but will on Saturday instead. I'll also definitely have toast for breakfast 'cos it'll potentially be my only meal all day if he arrives after lunchtime and I don't wanna be mid-meal cooking or eating when he arrives.
I'm also gonna have a shower instead of a bath on Saturday 'cos I've got a Freegler coming over to pick something up on Saturday morning, so I want to be sure I'm ready for when she comes. I'll do my morning laps while I'm waiting for the water to heat up.
I'm seeing my best friend on Monday too, so I won't do any laps then either and will have any leftovers from Sunday lunch for my breakfast instead of lunch so that I can get some food into my belly for potentially the only time that day. I'll also do both sets of laps on the Saturday next week too, so that I'm not smelly, puffed out and exhausted when he gets here.
It'll be a weird few days, but it doesn't happen like that very often so I've just gotta cope with it all as well as possible.
Today's lunch was the last 4 of the second box of Veggie Fingers, 3 battered onion rings and about 10g of Vegan Mayo, which I got spot on today, all washed down with a 330ml can of Sparkling Passion[fruit] pop.
Here's today's lunch photo:
I've just had a scammer on the phone trying to sell me loft insulation. She asked a few questions then asked if me and my partner were within the 50-75 year age bracket, I said my partner had passed away and she went quiet for a good 10-15 seconds, then came back and said "OK, that's all we needed to ask you today, goodbye" then rapidly hung up lol
Today's breakfast was a 550ml mug of hot runny honey water to try and ease my throat a bit.
Here's today's breakfast photo:
...annoying part of the year when my sneezing and sore, dry throat and streaming eyes could either be a cold or the start of hayfever season.
I was fine when I woke up at 4am but as soon as it started to get light and the plants started to bloom, bam, I started sneezing and sniffing and my throat is swelling up too now. I'm thinking it's the start of my hayfever season as of now, which means I've recovered from my last cold of the season and I've had my 5 clear days until September/October kinda time now when I'll have another week of feeling semi-human before the cold season starts up again.
At least the weather should start heating up a bit soon and the days start getting longer now though.