A Midsummer's Night Update

Have you ever looked back over an ongoing project and realized that, as you go on, you get less and less precise?

I have.

Now, don't get me wrong I love precision. I demand precision from my students (and myself, when it comes to academia). But, sometimes I start out very precise and then relax as I realize that the parameters of my precision were possibly a bit too tall of an order to fill, even for me.

Blah, blah, blah, you're saying. Get to the point already, you say.

Okay.

My blog is less precise. Instead of exact dates, I'm giving estimates in terms of hours, days, etc. Why? Because I'd like my reading to be recreational this summer, and when I try to keep track of dates and other such specifics it starts to feel a bit too much like a chore.

I hope you are all cool with that, because that's just the way it is.

The second point of this post is to give you all an update on what's coming up in the next several posts. The books I've read that I haven't yet posted about on here:

24. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larrson.
25. Save the Cat! Blake Snyder.
26. Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury.
27. Confessions of a Freelance Pen Monkey, Chuck Wendig.

Plus, you know, I'm hoping to reach the 30 mark before the month is over so that I can start the Bloglovin' Summer Readathon with a bang!

Book Twenty-Three: FIRST GRAVE ON THE RIGHT

First Grave on the Right, by Darynda Jones, 2011. This is the first book of the Charley Davidson series, which I intend to catch up on before the summer ends.


TTR: a day and a half.

Comments:

I love Darynda Jones' book for many reasons, among which are the fact that I've met Darynda and chatted with her at a couple of writer's events (we were even on the same panel for new writers at the Jack Williamson Lectureship in 2012). It love to support local authors, in part because it is probably karma of some sort. One day soon I'll be a published author looking for local support *crosses fingers*. But also because--YEAH--people from around here are awesome. They're my people. They should definitely succeed.

The setting is AWESOME. As a New Mexico girl, I am always happy to see New Mexico in books, movies, television, etc.

I also just love supernatural detective stories, and Darynda is great at writing them.

Some Books I Recently Bought

To tide you over until I start posting about actual books again, a picture of my newest acquisitions (at some point I will update this post to include a picture of the bookstore in which they were found, as well as a review of the bookstore: Books of Interest in Santa Fe).