I'm a reading machine...
Mood: Contemplative
What I'm Listening To Right Now: Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer
I've been wearing the plastic cover right off of my library card since the New Year. Leave it to me to take the idea of keeping track of what I read as a personal competition with myself. In the last week, I've read three books and put a serious dent in another last night. I think I'll be finishing Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie tonight before I go to bed.
As I said before, I'm knocking out all of Jennifer Crusie's books this month, and I'm on my third of the year with two more in the wings. All with the tiny interruptions from First Assistant, which I picked up at the library on a whim and The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner, which I couldn't very well leave sitting on the shelf starting at me. This is why I'm a VIP at my library, I would be broke and hungry if I bought all the books I read. Although, I do buy books from my favorite authors and books that I love. The problem with Crusie is that I end up loving them all. So they go on my To Be Bought list, simply out of self/budget preservation.
The problem with all of this reading is that I'm worried I won't be writing when I need to. I never worry about picking up someone else's voice because A) I haven't seen that it's happened since I started writing my book and B) If it does I'll notice it when I edit. But for the most part, it's not something I think about. What I do think about is the fact that I couldn't put down Bet Me last night and only made myself go to bed when I saw that the sun was coming up.
So not only does that mean that slept late today, but it also means that I'm tired and jealous, because one of my huge goals of writing is to write a book that people stay up all night to read and then go to work with puffing eyes, messed up hair and the main goal to go home and find out what happens next.
::sigh:: It'll happen.
-B
What I'm Listening To Right Now: Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer
I've been wearing the plastic cover right off of my library card since the New Year. Leave it to me to take the idea of keeping track of what I read as a personal competition with myself. In the last week, I've read three books and put a serious dent in another last night. I think I'll be finishing Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie tonight before I go to bed.
As I said before, I'm knocking out all of Jennifer Crusie's books this month, and I'm on my third of the year with two more in the wings. All with the tiny interruptions from First Assistant, which I picked up at the library on a whim and The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner, which I couldn't very well leave sitting on the shelf starting at me. This is why I'm a VIP at my library, I would be broke and hungry if I bought all the books I read. Although, I do buy books from my favorite authors and books that I love. The problem with Crusie is that I end up loving them all. So they go on my To Be Bought list, simply out of self/budget preservation.
The problem with all of this reading is that I'm worried I won't be writing when I need to. I never worry about picking up someone else's voice because A) I haven't seen that it's happened since I started writing my book and B) If it does I'll notice it when I edit. But for the most part, it's not something I think about. What I do think about is the fact that I couldn't put down Bet Me last night and only made myself go to bed when I saw that the sun was coming up.
So not only does that mean that slept late today, but it also means that I'm tired and jealous, because one of my huge goals of writing is to write a book that people stay up all night to read and then go to work with puffing eyes, messed up hair and the main goal to go home and find out what happens next.
::sigh:: It'll happen.
-B
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