Although I’m in the midst of revising my WIP…
Sorry a quick aside here re. the WIP.
Current title I’m tossing around is OH LUCKY GIRL! I’m starting to wonder what I was thinking of naming my heroine Lucky because according to Amazon.com and Google, there are far too many books out there with variations on the name. All the coolest ones are taken. But this is an awesome character- feisty yet insecure, brave although she doesn’t know it, blunt and honest and passionate and she deserves to have a book named after her. No doubt it will come to me all of a sudden. Right, Oh Muse?!! Muse? Are you there?
However that’s not what I was going to write about here. I was going to say that although I am hunched over my laptop for much of the day trying to figure out new and exciting ways of describing things (before ultimately deciding that straightforwardness is to be preferred 9 out of 10 times), I still read before falling asleep. I always have and I always will. There’s nothing like a stack of books on the night table and as usual it’s a mixed selection.
I’ve mentioned Michelle Paver’s excellent middle-grade Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series before. OATHBREAKER is the new one and that’s what I’m currently reading.
After that I’ve got the first three Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. These are the novels HBO’s True Blood series is based on. I’ve heard they’re a lot of fun.
I just finished the first SANDMAN comic book by Neil Gaiman, which somehow escaped my notice when it first came out although at the time I was devouring Clive Barker’s TAPPING THE VEIN, another graphic novel (by someone I’ve forgotten) called BLOOD and the x-rated RAN XEROX series by some sick and twisted Italians. Definitely not for the kids.
And to keep me occupied for the rest of the month: LETTERS FROM THE HIVE (Stephen Buchmann)- an intimate history of bees, FOUR TENTHS OF AN ACRE (Laurie Lisle)- a gardening memoir, THE COMPANY (Arabella Edge)- historical thriller, and MAGICKEEPERS (Erica Kirov)- a middle-grade fantasy.
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