Ok - so I bought a new book [not true: I bought about 8 new books and 5 art journals] for vacation (which doesn't start until Friday).
Here is the thing - I stayed up all night READING one of them (DarkPlaces by Gillian Flynn). It qualifies as one of those, 'perhaps someone else had a worser (I know this is bad grammar) childhood than I (I know this should say 'me'). The point is, if you can forget my bad grammar, is that it has been a long time since I have been gripped by a book in this manner. I have 'enjoyed' some and actually 'loved' others. But this one - it is like the first time I read Augusten Burrough's A WOLF AT THE TABLE or Haven Kimmel's IODINE. I was rocking, reading, and closing the book, turning off the light, turning the light back on, until 6:15 a.m.
PLEASE TELL ME I AM NOT THE ONLY PSYCHO NIGHT READER!
Hence - being in an altered state of stunned stupidity (or perhaps just otherworldness), I appeared at a 10:30 a.m. meeting with my web designer, which isn't until tomorrow. um. ding dang. I blame this fugue on my altered literary reality.
That is what I consider a good read. To be so altered that I don't know, or really give a taco, what day it is. Another sign - when you feel that you have only 2 toes on your right foot, like the main character. Check - GOOD BOOK. Sitting up rocking yourself - CHECK, good book - thanks Augusten and Haven!!
Kudos to Gillian Flynn for having the balls to write about a flawed, but -therefore- believable character.
This girl woman - Libby - is someone with twisted thinking, but is loveable at the same time.
Which, as you know - is my goal in life - to be the twisted soul that I am, but to be loveable (and, loving, of course).
So, dear readers, who are all readers yourself - tell me,
what is the last book that kept you up all night??? I'm just dying to know!
Other 'wee hours' of the morning books from my literary past:
IT, THE STAND, INSOMNIA (how Ironic) - Stephen King
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
. . . . just to name a few!
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Here is the thing - I stayed up all night READING one of them (DarkPlaces by Gillian Flynn). It qualifies as one of those, 'perhaps someone else had a worser (I know this is bad grammar) childhood than I (I know this should say 'me'). The point is, if you can forget my bad grammar, is that it has been a long time since I have been gripped by a book in this manner. I have 'enjoyed' some and actually 'loved' others. But this one - it is like the first time I read Augusten Burrough's A WOLF AT THE TABLE or Haven Kimmel's IODINE. I was rocking, reading, and closing the book, turning off the light, turning the light back on, until 6:15 a.m.
PLEASE TELL ME I AM NOT THE ONLY PSYCHO NIGHT READER!
Hence - being in an altered state of stunned stupidity (or perhaps just otherworldness), I appeared at a 10:30 a.m. meeting with my web designer, which isn't until tomorrow. um. ding dang. I blame this fugue on my altered literary reality.
That is what I consider a good read. To be so altered that I don't know, or really give a taco, what day it is. Another sign - when you feel that you have only 2 toes on your right foot, like the main character. Check - GOOD BOOK. Sitting up rocking yourself - CHECK, good book - thanks Augusten and Haven!!
Kudos to Gillian Flynn for having the balls to write about a flawed, but -therefore- believable character.
This girl woman - Libby - is someone with twisted thinking, but is loveable at the same time.
Which, as you know - is my goal in life - to be the twisted soul that I am, but to be loveable (and, loving, of course).
So, dear readers, who are all readers yourself - tell me,
what is the last book that kept you up all night??? I'm just dying to know!
Other 'wee hours' of the morning books from my literary past:
IT, THE STAND, INSOMNIA (how Ironic) - Stephen King
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
. . . . just to name a few!
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Jane pushing a baby carriage . . .
"FIRST COMES LOVE",
July 2009
(Note: top fabric includes one of my children's hospital, flannel receiving blankets).
July 2009
Overall these new pieces are extensions of "Coping Skills" and will be collector items of smaller size.
"VANITY TABLE I - RUBBER DUCKY, YOU'RE THE ONE"
July, 2009 (detail below)
I have tons of encaustic paintings started, but am saving those for days when I won't be distracted by children, the phone, etc. I definitely feel the embers heating up - ready for a major production of work to result.
Yippee!