Manuscript for the win!
all that reading requires just a little cat nap!
Sunday, March 30, 2014
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Let's hope it's not the manuscript that puts you to sleep!
ReplyDeleteI'm reading Empire Falls, and my own manuscript. Enjoy your Sunday.
I read several books in Sue Grafton's alphabet series when they were first published and decided to begin the series again. I started with "A Is For Alibi" last November, and I'm now halfway through "V Is For Vengeance." Over the holidays I detoured into some James Joyce, Robert Parker and Norman Maclean, but otherwise it's been a steady Kinsey Millhone diet.
ReplyDeleteCasual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling. I downloaded this and only poked at it. I bought it and can't put it down. It made me remember that I love more about reading than just reading, not to mention the look of a bookcase filled with favorite titles.
ReplyDeleteAs Sunday is just finishing here in Oz, this is what I've read: on the Kindle just finished the first Lily Bard book "Shakespeare's Landlord" by Charlaine Harris. In print reading the latest Carola Dunn "Heirs of the Body" having just finished JD Robb's "Concealed in Death".
ReplyDeleteI was reading "The Monuments Men", but I keep getting sucked back into "Godspeed" by February Grace. (For the second time...in a row.)
ReplyDeleteI never knew that type story would grab me so strongly.
Enjoy your day, and yes Cat naps are required on Sundays...Rats! I have two cats...double naps I guess.
Cheers Hank.
I want to just "like" this post, but I'll add in my current read - just picked up Andrew's Brain by E.L. Doctorow. It's my first of his and it's a pretty interesting read already. I also just finished The Princess Bride which was as entertaining (or more so) than the the movie.
ReplyDeleteSort of like Kitty, I'm re-reading aloud to my wife the Meg Langslow mysteries by Donna Andrews. I'm dipping into Bill Bryson's Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words and DePoy's the Tao and the Bard.
ReplyDeleteI'm in between choices since I just finished SYCAMORE ROW and GALVESTON. One I loved, the other I hated. Want to guess which is which?
ReplyDeleteI've got UNTIL SHE COMES HOME on my nightstand, but I need to catch up on my magazines, since I'm several issues behind. (P&W and WD)
Dog naps work too.
I'm reading Guillaume Musso's, 7 Ans Après. For some reason, I can't get into the story. It's bizarre because I've read all of his earlier works and each one was a page-turner. This one however is somewhat boring. I've seen this happen with other authors who become very popular and they begin to turn out novels like a machine. He has two newer ones out. Demain, last year and Central Park, just a few days ago.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of abandoning the one I'm reading now, which is rare! I think I've only stopped reading three books in my life.
Have a great Sunday!
March turned out to be much more stressful than expected, so I was happy to stumble upon the Enchanted, Inc. series by Shanna Swendson last week. Who knew that magical chick-lit was just what I needed to de-stress??
ReplyDeleteThanks for asking. Hope you are reading something just as magical!
So tell us when you have a wakeful moment. When you read a client's manuscript, you actually mark it up when highlighter and pen? Margin notes? Still awaiting the good fortune of having an agent accept my manuscript, I really don't know how most agents work. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSomehow or another I was skimming your archives and came across your post four years ago about Dave Cullen's Columbine, which sounded interesting. It came from the library on Friday and I will probably finish it by Monday. I don't recall a nonfiction book ever gripping me so fiercely.
ReplyDeleteSince I finished Wolverine Bros. Freight & Storage, I am clicking around my Kindle TBR pile, looking for a place to settle.
ReplyDeleteTerri
How did you read wolverine bros? Did I miss something?
ReplyDeleteThe sox knocker I am looking forward to reading is the forthcoming Janet Read thriller, HOW TO SWIM WITH THE SHARK AND BECOME A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
ReplyDeleteIt may be everybody's fantasy, and crime oriented authors may want to kill for it, but I know it will not be fiction.
Dean Koontz, "The Bad Place"
ReplyDeleteSteve Forti - I scored an ARC of Wolverine Bros. I'll be blogging about it after the 1st when it is about a month out from dropping. It is the best Conway Sax yet. Very dark, very gritty.
ReplyDeleteTerri - can't wait. Very jealous. I live only ten minutes from him, actually. So I'm hoping he's having a release signing at the local bookstore again.
DeleteLast 20 pages of rereading Bruce Catton's "A Stillness at Appomatox."
ReplyDeleteJust starting The Girls of Atomic City.
ReplyDeleteCrime and Punishment. Took me 60 years to get to it.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading the most recent Best American Non Required Reading, and also working on a draft of my most recently finished MS.
ReplyDeleteElantris by Brandon Sanderson
ReplyDeleteI just opened a book called ASSHOLES, A THEORY by Aaron James. I'm hoping the rest is as promising as the title!
ReplyDeleteJust finished paper Towns by John Green. Great protagonist, good storyline. And I grew up about a mile from where the story took place (though they went to the wrong high school), but I didn't know that until I got a page in. Now I have to send it to my mom so she can visit the places discussed.
ReplyDeleteYour cat looks enough like two of mine to be another sibling! My tbr pile is enormous, but I'm writing this weekend instead. I'm trying to write a short story in a day. :)
ReplyDeleteSadly, not my kitten in the picture. I have to borrow the cats for the blog. This one is an editor pal's parent's cat. (Isn't he just a fuzzy bunch of yummy?)
ReplyDeleteTerri, you are so kind! I'm glad you liked WBFS. Steve Forti: I haven't yet arranged an event at our favorite indie bookseller, but I'm sure I will. Even better, I hang around there all the time, drinking coffee and seeing what's new. Maybe I'll bump into you!
ReplyDeleteI wasn't reading this Sunday. I was writing chapter 10 of my novel-in-the-making, The Gifts of Faith.
ReplyDeleteLove the kitten! I have 3 cats of my own.
I divided my reading time between THE MAZE RUNNER and a 23 page fiction critique for my MFA writing workshop.
ReplyDeleteThe Manhattan Beach Project by Peter Lefcourt. Published 2005. The MC is quoted in a brief preface: "In Hollywood you're never quite as dead as people give you credit for..."
ReplyDeleteJust finished up CAPE FEAR, by John D. MacDonald. Also reading an advanced reader's copy of THE GOOD SPY by Kai Bird (thank you, Shelf Awareness!). Halfway through. It's really good.
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