em-bitterred

I still was finishing up only the brave by stayawake (rec from @whoipretended2b, more reactions under a previous travel reading post), but I stayed up WAY TOO LATE on Saturday night reading and I think I must have read 150k overnight which got me the rest of the way there. I really, really liked the chapters that took place in Sioux Falls, which I think helped, and also the feel-bad sex between Dean and Cas around the 50% mark,

I read Fight or Flight on the train and liveblogged, partially because there's no ability to leave comments since the work's been orphaned and the comments were moderated.

And that only got me 45 minutes into the train ride.

I had previously downloaded Romancing the Exit Sign and started a reread, since it had been a year (or so?) since I read it the first time. I am huge into rereading, and it is always fun to experience a thing you enjoyed the first time over again (and sometimes: over and over and over). This was no exception, I was waiting for every description of Dean being drawn to the thing that wants to eat him. There are parts (especially the dreams, I think) that remind me of the short story, "Daisy, in the Sun" by Connie Willis.

Side note: the person who wound up sitting next to me had a completely different train philosophy than me (I get one thing out at a time as I'm using it, they had a whole smorgasbord of things out and trapped me in the window seat) which was fine but low-level annoying. A lot of times I am very "oh I love to travel alone" or "I love to do things alone" but admittedly traveling next to someone I know and get along with well is better. The time I traveled with my kid was great and there was no real negotiation (besides infinite snacks) to do.