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Five down – twenty-seven to go

So, the reading resolution isn’t going that well. Settling into the new house after National, plus dealing with work, two on-line courses and revisions of my futuristic don’t leave much time for reading. But I did finish the book I started on the plane way back in July on the way home from National. Jordan Dane’s No One Heard Her Scream.

Next book up was Angel with Attitude by Michelle Rowen. With the exception of the Jordan Dane book, I’m reading the books from National in alphabetical order by title. That way I get a good variety of genres. Plus there’s no trying to decide what book to read next. The only exceptions I might make are books that are not the first in a series if I haven’t read the first book. After Michelle’s book I was supposed to read an Alyssa Day book. But it’s the second in a series. So I skipped that one for now until I can get the first book. Instead, I read Michelle’s book Bitten & Smitten. Now, I can’t say I’ve been converted to the first person train but I really did like the book. So much so that I forgot it was in first person most of the time. It looks like I might not detest first person as much as I thought if the author is talented enough. WTG Michelle. After that was Blackout by Annie Solomon. Really good book. But I love spy novels and that’s what it was essentially. A female Jason Bourne. After reading Count to Ten by Karen Rose I started another of her books. Die for Me.

But now the National books will have to be put on hold. My Daphne books arrived today so I will dive into those. I hope they’re as good as the ones I judged last year.

I know I have no shot at getting 32 books read by July so I’ll have to amend it to 32 books by December. Now that reading two books a month is part of my New Year’s resolution I hope I can stick with it. So far, not so much. And now, I’m off to read before I go to work.

Until next time…

Cindy

Post conference high

I’m back from San Francisco. What a crazy, busy, productive week. Conference was amazing as usual. I attended some great workshops. Blake Snyder was amazing. If you haven’t seen him speak you really need to. He had some very interesting things to say.

The booksignings were crowded but very fruitful. Of course I brought back way too many books. And I was actually selective this year, only picking up books I thought I would actually read. I guess only time will tell if I get through them all. I started reading Jordan Dane’s book, No One Heard Her Scream on the plane so I’m off to a good start. I have a conference resolution. By next conference I hope to have at least half of the 64 books I brought back read.

I love conference. It’s a chance to meet people I’ve known online for ages. A chance to see friends I haven’t seen for a year. Catch up with chapter members I haven’t seen in a while because I hardly ever make it out to meetings.

I need to go and catch up on e-mail and homework now. I’ll be posting more later this week.

Until next time…

Cindy

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