I saw an article late last year, that said GRRM isn't writing the books anymore to work on the show exclusively. Though he could have changed his mind.
I finished The Spook's books (the first three), but I am so invested that I want the rest. I tried to search on TheWorkds website but couldn't find the next ones. Could someone tell me where I can buy? At the moment, I started reading Dreamer by PeterJamess.
A wikipedia page on a trilogy I'm looking for. I also highly reccomend the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance.)
Dropped one book, picked up, Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the soul by Rabbi Naomi Levy. Its apart of my theological shit, don't mind this. And of course, Before they are hanged by Joe Abercrombie since The Blade itself was so, so good.
Just finished (yesterday) reading Stephen King's On Writing. It was a more thoughtful book than I expected it to be. It's always interesting to me to read how other writers do stuff, and that's more or less what this book is like. He does his nut over adverbs, but in general, I think this is a valuable addition to the 'how to' genre. He doesn't come across as a know-it-all, but he's firm in what he thinks works, and what he thinks doesn't work. He encourages people to just write the story that's in their heads, not to show it to anybody else till the first draft is done, and not to worry about whether or not some people won't like it. Some excellent peripheral ideas in there as well, including the notion of writing for a person whom you know—keeping them in mind as your target audience. And also some great tips on how to discover 'theme.' (Mostly after you've written, not before!)
Read the Secret Life of the Lonely Doll weeks ago. It was based on the life of Dare Wright a model who became famous making children's books by taking pictures of teddy bears and dolls. Now it's become one of my favorite biographies. I don't know why but the book really spoke to me even though it was so sad. I really loved that the author took the time to find out what drove the woman's creativity. Last night finished a freebie gothic I found in a thrift bin. It was okay, one scene I loved was the heroine was in an old time luncheonette at the book rack and picked out gothic romances to read. Very tongue in cheek moment.
I've read it, a few years ago. It's good, but sad. The only bone I had to pick with Bronte was that Lucy's backstory wasn't as developed as I would have liked it to be. But I was struck by her independence. I'm pretty sure the story is set in the 1820s, and I wondered if society would have allowed her that much leeway once the Victorian era got well started. Or were things always different on the Continent?
The other day, I "finished" reading a contemporary romance-thriller, the title and author of which I will not name since I don't want to give her any free publicity. About a third of the way in I stopped caring so much about how the poor, beleaguered heroine was going to get out of the danger she was in, and got more interested in how the author was going to resolve all the plot contrivances, impossible situations, and other messes she had written herself and the heroine into. And then, without warning, the damn book turned out to be part one of a serial! I don't normally swear in public, but I was in public when I got to that point on my Kindle app, and I swore. If this comes across at all like I admire the author for her commercial moxie, think again. I was willing to keep reading to see how she was going to tie up all those wildly divergent loose ends, but not 2 x $6.99 worth of willing.
Before they are hanged by Joe Abercrombie. I'm late to The First Law trilogy, but better late than never. Highly recommend for anyone who likes dark fantasy. The Anatomy of story John Truby. Always good to brush up on writing skills, eh? Also ordered another book on writing: Creating character arcs by K.M. Weiland. I'll see how that one goes, but the Truby book is good so far.
Florida by Lauren Groff. I get so immersed that it takes time to get my head out of Florida-land when I put it down.
I’m reading My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout. I just found it on my shelves, didn’t even know I had it, especially since I didn’t care for Olive Kitterage. This one’s okay so far, though.
The wife and I both have to renew our driver’s licenses this year, and since my wife does fly from time to time, she needs to get that federal endorsement to get on a plane. We have all the documentation she needs. It’s all in the safe at the back of the sanctuary to needless things we generously call a closet. Guess who just had the chore of clearing access to the safe. We’ve only lived here ten years. How did we accumulate so much shit? ETA: I just realized I put this in the wrong thread. It was supposed to go in the ‘what are you doing’ thread. Since it ended up in the what are you reading thread I did recently re read Earnst Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying. Great book. Tonight I read throught a hefty supply of papers looking for the stuff we need for our tip to the DMV. I found our marriage license, my divorce decree, even my high school diploma. What a surprise it hadn’t crumbled to dust by now.
The After Party by Anton DiSelafani. I've rediscovered a bunch of books I bought and stuck on an out of the way shelf. This is a gossipy, mid-century high society story. Should be delicious!
Read 'The Dreamers" by Karen Thompson Walker, and enjoyed the book so much I checked out her first book "The Age of Miracles". Definitely felt more entranced by the Dreamers, but the Miracle of Ages had a more profound ending. Both good reads!
This: I'm having a break from fiction, so I'm genning up on the Rover 800 - one of the cars I own. And if you know anything about cars, you'll know that's nothing to be proud of.
Just finished re-reading Reckless by Cornelia Funke. It's a bit of a teen story, but focused on more adult issues than soppy romances and school drama. And the characters are generally somewhat nuanced, there's a subtle ambiguity to the story where the roles of "hero" and "villain" aren't emphasised as much.
Guillotine Seche in French when it arrives and when I find my little blue dictionary from 1985, it must be somewhere. Going French.
