Not that it stopped me. I bought 6 books today (Wicca craft, and the first Donald Maas writing book). Read the intro to that by Anne Perry. Otherwise - it's been NaNo (or chores) all day long. It's 4:54 - the time "fell back" and its nearly dark now. Boo hoo.
Last day of vacation and I did amazingly far less than I planned. I mean work, of course. I read the entire week - Lisa Jackson, Mariah Stewart, Julia Quinn, Ridley Pearson, Stephanie Laurens. I also picked up the new Dorothea Lange biography, and a few other titles - both fiction and non.
For the time being, it is nose to the grindstone and churning out that NaNo novel - Pom Poms of Death. Cheerleaders, sex scandals, suburbia ... what more could a reader want! (No, I SAID it is a NOVEL - I don't care what the newspaper headlines say!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Vacation Reading (& book buying!)
I never travel or go anywhere for my vacations. I work at home, cook, lounge around and - you guessed it - read up a storm. I also tend to take a trip (or 5) to the book store, thus adding to my already Everestian to-be-read (or "TBR") book pile(s).
This week I've actually gotten sidetracked by internet work and writing (National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo for those "in the know" - begins on Sunday and I'm participating again this year, but with great hopes for a successful conclusion, unlike last year's crash and burn ending).
But I have been reading. Regency romances mostly - Julie Quinn's "Mr. Cavendish I Presume", and a Stephanie Laurens. Plenty more where they came from too!
What I'll be picking up today, however, will be the various writing research and craft books that I'll steep myself in (again in prep. for NaNo to get my authorial juices flowing and my mind back in 'writer mode').
I got the newest Nora Roberts ("Bed of Roses") but Mom got to it first. I also have to find my copies of Gilgamesh that is the first Great Books project I have undertaken. (See other blog for that challenge!)
You know what? I suddenly feel a bookstore trip coming on!
Gotta run!
This week I've actually gotten sidetracked by internet work and writing (National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo for those "in the know" - begins on Sunday and I'm participating again this year, but with great hopes for a successful conclusion, unlike last year's crash and burn ending).
But I have been reading. Regency romances mostly - Julie Quinn's "Mr. Cavendish I Presume", and a Stephanie Laurens. Plenty more where they came from too!
What I'll be picking up today, however, will be the various writing research and craft books that I'll steep myself in (again in prep. for NaNo to get my authorial juices flowing and my mind back in 'writer mode').
I got the newest Nora Roberts ("Bed of Roses") but Mom got to it first. I also have to find my copies of Gilgamesh that is the first Great Books project I have undertaken. (See other blog for that challenge!)
You know what? I suddenly feel a bookstore trip coming on!
Gotta run!
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