+ Doors Open by Ian Rankin ...to be added to...

Work Mmmmm paint fumes. It's fun and pleasant working in an office that's being remodeled. Life I might be coming down with a cold. I'm going to fight it with blankets, sleep and orange juice. Wish...that is truly one of the coolest scene's I've ever read. Saramago rules. I'm reading Blindness next. Writing I'm 1/3 through the fifth draft, and I have a first draft of a query blurb. Woo hoo

September 2008: The Iliad , Homer Nights in Rodanthe , Nicholas Sparks Bird by Bird , Anne Lamott October 2008: The Reincarnationist , M.J. Rose Paradise Lost , Milton Metamorphoses , Ovid Stardust...Pullman On deck for October/November: Paradise Lost , Milton The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring , Tolkien Chocolat , Joanne Harris Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , Amanda Foreman

What I finished from the old list : The Worst Person in the World , by Keith Olbermann Breaking Dawn , by Stephanie Meyer What's new:Star Trek: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers , by James Swallow...be posting again today. I'm caught up on my Twitters (it helps that most of my online friends are one to four time zones ahead of me) so now it's time to actually read my flist and get. caught. up!

Yeah, the library is cheaper, but their gay lit section is terribly lacking. I thought I'd browse a little longer than I normally would at Borders; I admit I'm sometimes (usually) put off by the fact that...terrain that gave birth to the Taliban. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit." So...I'll let you know how they are as I finish them, k

Books I'm Reading   Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis Dragonspell by Donita K. Paul Snowglobe 7 by Mike... by Eleanor Updale The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray Freaks:  Alive, on the Inside!  by Annette Curtis Klause Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce

Fourth draft complete! (For the love of apostrophes, I never thought it would happen.) So, this draft, I worked on this stuff. The fifth will be all about tweaking. I shall tweak scene structures and...through. I'm trying to learn from it, but geeze. Have any of you guys read it? Were you floored like me? Also, Bushnell is the new Fitzgerald, who was once upon a time the new Austen. You think

1. Beaufort (Ron Lesham) is a *Really Great* Book. It's a war book about Israeli soldiers stationed at the Beaufort outpost between Israel and Lebanon in 1999. I enjoy reading war books anyway, but this...some point, maybe even soon), but I love getting the emails telling me what my friends are reading and their reviews. Feel free to friend me there if you're a member, and I promise to friend you back

I'm determined to read every story in the exchange. But I'm having a hard time keeping track of what I've read. I'm going to use this post as a record. There is probably a better way to do this so I don't... [PG-13] ART: Running up that hill [G] All I need [PG] Week 1 Stories NOT YET Read: Liberation [PG] It Was For The Best [PG-13] Ultimatum [PG-13]

Oh, to hell with editing.   I think I just found my life's meaning.