Sometimes I use my car as my office. That's what I'm doing right now and the library is so kind as to give me free wi-fi, even when they're not open.
Reading Stuff
I am coming along not so swimmingly with my library reading list. I have been keeping up in two of the four books I'm reading right now.
1. Nicholas Nickleby
2. Dickens: A Biography
I must say I find his biography more interesting than his novel at the moment. I was enjoying it at a level 5 tizziness, but the next day the chapters were arduous, the descriptions painfully long, thousands of unnecessary words per page (maybe not quite that many, but the print is small so it might be possible). Maybe the book became my fo-o-e-e because of how thick it is and I'm thinking "I've got to finish my library reading list! I've got to keep up! And YOU, Nicholas Nickleby, are making it so. much. harder! You horrid thing! Ok, I detest you now. You're going from a 5 to a -5. Ha! How do you like that????"
Yes, I do think that is what happened with me and poor Nicholas. Well, it cannot be helped. It's more important to complete your reading goals than to enjoy what you're reading. (BIIIIGG sarcasm alert there. If I had a siren, button, thing, I would make it howl very loudly right now. EAH! EAH! EAH! EAH! That's supposed to be the siren, button, thing.)
In Closing
Well, that's all I have for you today. Think of me while I read N-i-cho-las Nick-le-by--heh-ee *sobbing a river...sobbing like a river?*. After that I'm going to read A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn which is actually not too bad (even though it's published by Harlequin). No "defense" (as my brother says) to them but they usually publish very fruity (as in light, fluffly [I meant to spell it that way *sarcasm!*], boring plot) or very sexual stuff.
I'm not a huge fan of sex scenes in books. I mean how embarrassing is that to be reading in a public place and feel your cheeks getting hot and your pulse racing and you think "Oh my word! Everyone can SEE me! It's like I'm doing it with a BOOK or something! This is so odd and EMBARRASSING." I mean, the person that is reading it might as well be acting it out cause it jars all the same bodily responses. And in public??!! To me, private is not any better. It's still just as embarrassing. But that's me. Maybe you like that kind of thing. I'm just not that into it.
That's why I'm liking A Spear of Summer Grass right now. Deanna writes about a very racy woman who sleeps around a lot. The woman "did it" once already and I've never been more impressed by a sex scene. You knew they did it, but the way Deanna wrote it, it was quite clean. And keeping it discreet, vague, clean, whatever you want to call it, did not make the story or the character one bit artificial. I feel like Deanna allowed readers to choose what they would imagine. And I like that.
There are some books that are really great plot-wise, but then they are filled with sex scenes. So where do (that was on purpose) one go to get a good story without sex scenes? The Christian Romance genre does not automatically fit the bill because, yep, no sex scenes there, but hard to find a plot that is interesting. I'm not busting on them. I'm a follower of Christ. But I don't think you have to be boring because of it. And I don't think adding sex scenes to a book makes it automatically interesting. In fact, it does the opposite for me.
The closest example I can pick of interesting without literal sex scenes would be in screen form, and that's Downton Abbey. There is scandal time after time without everyone sleeping with everything (oops, I meant everyone) else and showing entire steamy scenes about it. I think discretion and modesty go a long way in creating an interesting plot and characters. All that excitement over sleeping around is for teenagers. Sorry, teenagers, that's how I feel. (It just doesn't work in real life. It's HURTFUL, not exciting. *in stage whisper so I don't bweak their wittle hearts*)
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Reading Stuff
I am coming along not so swimmingly with my library reading list. I have been keeping up in two of the four books I'm reading right now.
1. Nicholas Nickleby
2. Dickens: A Biography
I must say I find his biography more interesting than his novel at the moment. I was enjoying it at a level 5 tizziness, but the next day the chapters were arduous, the descriptions painfully long, thousands of unnecessary words per page (maybe not quite that many, but the print is small so it might be possible). Maybe the book became my fo-o-e-e because of how thick it is and I'm thinking "I've got to finish my library reading list! I've got to keep up! And YOU, Nicholas Nickleby, are making it so. much. harder! You horrid thing! Ok, I detest you now. You're going from a 5 to a -5. Ha! How do you like that????"
Yes, I do think that is what happened with me and poor Nicholas. Well, it cannot be helped. It's more important to complete your reading goals than to enjoy what you're reading. (BIIIIGG sarcasm alert there. If I had a siren, button, thing, I would make it howl very loudly right now. EAH! EAH! EAH! EAH! That's supposed to be the siren, button, thing.)
In Closing
Well, that's all I have for you today. Think of me while I read N-i-cho-las Nick-le-by--heh-ee *sobbing a river...sobbing like a river?*. After that I'm going to read A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn which is actually not too bad (even though it's published by Harlequin). No "defense" (as my brother says) to them but they usually publish very fruity (as in light, fluffly [I meant to spell it that way *sarcasm!*], boring plot) or very sexual stuff.
I'm not a huge fan of sex scenes in books. I mean how embarrassing is that to be reading in a public place and feel your cheeks getting hot and your pulse racing and you think "Oh my word! Everyone can SEE me! It's like I'm doing it with a BOOK or something! This is so odd and EMBARRASSING." I mean, the person that is reading it might as well be acting it out cause it jars all the same bodily responses. And in public??!! To me, private is not any better. It's still just as embarrassing. But that's me. Maybe you like that kind of thing. I'm just not that into it.
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There are some books that are really great plot-wise, but then they are filled with sex scenes. So where do (that was on purpose) one go to get a good story without sex scenes? The Christian Romance genre does not automatically fit the bill because, yep, no sex scenes there, but hard to find a plot that is interesting. I'm not busting on them. I'm a follower of Christ. But I don't think you have to be boring because of it. And I don't think adding sex scenes to a book makes it automatically interesting. In fact, it does the opposite for me.
The closest example I can pick of interesting without literal sex scenes would be in screen form, and that's Downton Abbey. There is scandal time after time without everyone sleeping with everything (oops, I meant everyone) else and showing entire steamy scenes about it. I think discretion and modesty go a long way in creating an interesting plot and characters. All that excitement over sleeping around is for teenagers. Sorry, teenagers, that's how I feel. (It just doesn't work in real life. It's HURTFUL, not exciting. *in stage whisper so I don't bweak their wittle hearts*)
Ok, enough of that.
You know where to find me:
Twitter @EdinanRoman
Wattpad
Tablo
Goodreads
Google+
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