The Last Sun fucked me

Last week I decided it was time to readjust my sleep habits a little bit. Typically I feel sleepy around 8 or 9, don't go to bed, get a second wind around 10, and then I'm wide awake through midnight, often past 1 and into 2AM. Then the next morning getting up sucks ass and I have to skip breakfast and the first few hours at work are very low productivity. So I decided I would just go straight to bed on the first round of getting sleepy and see where that led me. It sort of worked. I did go straight to sleep around 8pm, but woke up at 9 completely refreshed and then was wide awake in bed for three straight hours, but the next day was a little smoother.

In the before times I used to belong to a book club that would meet once a month. We read exclusively LGBT+ speculative work. It was a fun group and we read a lot of interesting stuff, both good and bad. When COVID came the meetings were moved to zoom, and since I hate zoom I stopped participating. I just never can remember it's time to stop doing whatever I'm doing and sit looking at a video of people looking at their screens. So I haven't read any of the books they have in the past few years, with a couple of exceptions. I still get their emails though and last month's book, The Last Sun,  looked interesting enough that I decided to see if it was in the library, which led me to getting set up in the library's ebooks borrowing system for the first time. I generally don't read ebooks, but not out of any conviction, just because I never bothered to set up a good way to do it, but figured I'd give it a shot and put this book on hold. That was a couple of weeks ago, and Friday night it became available.

So, I'm starting to feel tired around 9, decide I should just go straight to bed instead of working on stuff into the night, lie down... and since I'm a fucking moron I take my phone and start reading The Last Sun.

Now, while I don't usually read ebooks, I don't -never- read ebooks, and the ebooks I've read before have been meh indy things that I could put down without any trouble.

But unfortunately The Last Sun was very good and next thing I know it's 5:30 am and I'm finishing it up. I was actually hoping my improved habits would let me wake up at 4AM Saturday morning to watch some Korean Overwatch event but that event started while I was still awake, I considered a moment, and realized my brain was locked on and I couldn't actually stop reading, so I ended up missing it anyway...

And of course after that I fell asleep and woke up at 2PM so so much for improving my habits. My entire weekend was kind of lost to the sleep shift so now I'm back to square one.

I might write a little about The Last Sun in the future but I'm currently chomping at the bit for the second book, which is again on hold. Let's hope I start reading this one on the weekend instead of at 9PM at night.