Friday night after I picked the kids up from youth, we made our way to the lake. They were all in excellent moods...playing dodgeball with 85 other teens was awesome apparently. Due to the torrential rain (and I do mean torrential in a most wicked way) we didn't arrive at the cabin til 12:35 am. Of course everyone was starving, so we had hotdogs and chocolate milk.
Clint had a Stillwood reunion party to attend most of the day, so the rest of us headed down to our favorite store, The Nugget, where we browsed for an hour before buying 14 used books. The one that I'm looking forward to nibbling on over the next twelve months is "Romancing the Ordinary - A Year of Simple Splendor"
I noticed that my writing-friend Andie (click on her blog via the blog-roll list to the right) is going to keep track of all the books she reads this year. I think I'll join her in that list-making chore. My first entry is "State of Fear" by Michael Chriton. I finished it at 3:00am this morning. It was unlike any novel I have ever read before. It felt like I was slogging through a scientific thesis paper on environmental issues. The dialogue was less like conversations between characters and more like opportunities for the author to spout of his views on global warming. I kept reading long past the point where my interest level disappeared simply because I hate starting something and not finishing it. And, in the end, I figured I was learning something.
So, what are you reading this week?
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Hey! I was reading State of Fear when we had our last writer's meeting!! Christine and I were talking about it. I'm a total junkie for conspiracy theories/apocolyptic literature. Must be 'cause I was a child in the '80s. Of course, I use my skim reading skills when authors get toooooo long winded in their preaching...
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