It’s Friday—and what I’ve been doing this week is not very much at all. This is not because I am on holiday after completing The Gathering of the Lost, but because—as is so often the way after one has been really busy for a long time—as soon as I stopped I promptly succumbed to the nearest wandering ailment and so have been comfined to my authorial couch all this week, muffled in wraps and comforters, and imbibing various herbal and lemon-infused beverages, as well as knocking back aspirin at the minimum prescribed intervals.

The cat, needless to say, thinks it’s just great—he gets to hang out in the room where the heater stays on all day. And when you’re a cat in your 19th year, I suspect this counts as fairly close to bliss!:)

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Miss Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius

I haven’t quite summoned the energy yet for those Hugo Awards reading reports—although I promise you that they are coming!—but rather I’ve been sneakily doing some fun reading of something I really enjoy: graphic novels. In this case, catching up with the latest instalments of Girl Genius Online, which I’d gotten a bit behind on while finishing Gathering, and starting the latest in the Angel series: Illyria, Haunted.

For those of you who don’t know, the Buffy and Angel graphic novel series have continued on from where the tv series left off. In the case of the Buffy series (officially ‘Season Eight’) I haven’t been able to really get into it—although I do keep trying because it’s, you know, Buffy!—but I have really enjoyed most of the Angel instalments. I just think the stories are more coherent and more fun, and what they’re doing with the characters a whole heap more interesting—which is pretty much exactly the opposite of what I felt about the tv series.

And Illyria is one of my favourite characters so I’m really enjoying my first Illyria-centred adventure. And yes, I was one of those fans who really hoped there’d be a Spike/Illyria spin-off tv series … (Sigh.) But in fact this graphic novel series is pretty durned good anyway, so there is still Whedon-verse happiness to be had. 😉

So how about you? What would you read, if you were confined to your couch for a week? And if it was a graphic novel, which one would you go for?