I'm a debutante...

[archdyadove.livejournal.com]

Firstly, I want to say hello!! I've only been reading all of your wonderful posts and looking at your beautiful fan art on sounis for less than a year, but it seems like much longer. I made myself a livejournal just because of this! I read The Thief late last year, and instantly fell in love. It was too amazing to keep quiet about, so I told my mom all about it at a Greek restaurant, which is unintentionally fitting. Later the two of us ganged up on my brother and made him read the whole series, too. Of course, he loved it.
Secondly, I (and my mother) have a query: Why is Gen taking so much medicine in CoK? He complains, pretty much the whole book long, about how the two doctors are always badgering him with various brews and concoctions. Is he supposed to be sick, or still injured, or are we paying too much attention to something that doesn't merit such scrutiny? Sorry if this is a silly question, or if it's been asked before, but we've really been wondering.
Also, I just wanted to say that this community is one of the nicest ones I've come across, for any book. You are all so supportive and creative, helping each other stand the drought between installments of Eugenides.