Sometimes I feel as though I’m passing life by in a rush.  My days are a cycle of work-home-work-home-sometimes school and there never seems to be enough time to relax.  Could be those eleven hours days I’m putting in at work, or perhaps I don’t have enough time because I try to cram too much into twenty-four hours.

I don’t watch movies because they take up too much time.  If I do see one, it’s something I’ve seen a hundred times before (like the Mummy or the Mummy Returns).  This means I can watch while I’m editing or writing.

I do try to get some reading in, but unless the book spikes my interest, I’ll start it and never get to the end.  The last book I read was Undercover by Laurinda D. Brown.  It was fascinating for me because it was only the second novel I’ve read about a man living on the down low. I don’t think the first was even a novel.  If I recall, it was an expose written by a man who lived that lifestyle for years.  I’ve yet to do a review on it, but I’ll get to that.  Sometime.

I’ll give a run-down on what I’m reading.

I’m at Page 357 with this one. I wanted to read it because the idea of a white female slave owner making a connection with a black male slave intrigued me. It’s been done before, but on a plantation.  I find the book interesting, however, it’s begun to drag, so I’m letting it rest for a bit.

Page 105 is where I stopped reading The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. It was such a news-maker and list-maker that I wanted to study it, but it hasn’t held my attention like I expected it would.  I’ll finish it though, simply because I believe in reading books that do fabulously well.  It’s something  writers can’t help doing - scouting out the highly touted works of fiction.

I stopped at Page 125 and can’t believe I did.  If Jeffrey Archer was commissioned to write the ingredients of bread on a plastic bag, I’d read it.  I love the twists in his tales (pun intended). This one I’m gonna stick in my briefcase and shunt around every day.  That way, I’ll read the next story soon.

I’ll have to start from the top with this one. Can’t even remember where I paused, but I know it’s a heart-stopper in the making.  The drawings interspersed with the text, along with the storyline, made me decide to buy this one.

I just started this one. Got to page 21. The writing is good, but it’s a tad bit slow for me. I have to  be in the mood.  One thing I like about it is that you get an authentic Jamaican flavour from the get-go. Something I always have to go back and put in on my second draft.  No doubt, I’ll read The True History of Paradise because this writer is of Jamaican parentage and the book got some great reviews.

When I read that sort of review, I get an inferiority complex based on the genre in which I write, but that conversation is for my next blog.

More anon…