Nothing like continuous bed rest for a few days to reframe a busted perspective. Before breaking down, I was starting to hate everything around me out of fatigue. Even the cats wore on the nerves.

On the plus side, I read more books in the last 72 hours than in the past two weeks. Finally got around to Christopher Moore’s Practical Demonkeeping. Moore blends comedy and suspense in a unique — probably unparalleled — way. The neat part is that he’s funny in the most unexpected junctures, which makes the jokes all the more hilarious. He started out as a cult author, but no more. A Dirty Job, his latest, debuted at number 9 on the NY Times Bestseller list. Yet for all the success, he eludes the standard genre classifcation; his works are neither squarely suspense nor drama. And neither are they just comedies. Moore is more than that. He’s a special blend of all three, and a quick read, too.