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book list, October 2008
Nov. 1st, 2008 12:45 amIt's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in October 2008. (Click on the cuts for summaries and reactions.)
Is anyone still reading these lists? Inquiring minds want to know.
New: 5
---A Member of the Family: Cesar Millan's Guide to a Lifetime of Fulfillment with Your Dog, Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Peltier
( nonfiction )
---Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America, Garrison Keillor( nonfiction )
---Reserved for the Cat, Mercedes Lackey( fantasy )
---Star Trek Academy: Collision Course, William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, and Garfield Reeves-Stevens( sci-fi )
---The Northern Crusades, Eric Christiansen( nonfiction )
Old: 1
---Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling( fantasy )
October Total: 6 books (plus several magazines, a few newspapers, and a lot of fanfiction)
Year to Date: 92 books (62 new, 30 old)
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In other news, chapter 12 of "Secrets" is now at 12,525 words. That's 1,375 words written in one evening! (Okay, so I copied maybe 500 of them out of CoS, but I still had to play around with those to switch the POV from Harry to Ginny and work them smoothly into Ginny's thought process. Sometimes making Ginny's canon actions reconcile with any sort of rational internal character motivation is very tricky.)
...And after all that progress, I am still not done. *headdesk* I only got half the key scene, because it has decided that it really wants to be two scenes -- one where Ginny works up the nerve to follow a certain course of action (and fails to carry through), and one where she scrambles for a fallback plan (which goes horribly wrong).
Is anyone still reading these lists? Inquiring minds want to know.
New: 5
---A Member of the Family: Cesar Millan's Guide to a Lifetime of Fulfillment with Your Dog, Cesar Millan and Melissa Jo Peltier
( nonfiction )---Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America, Garrison Keillor
( nonfiction )---Reserved for the Cat, Mercedes Lackey
( fantasy )---Star Trek Academy: Collision Course, William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
( sci-fi )---The Northern Crusades, Eric Christiansen
( nonfiction )Old: 1
---Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling
( fantasy )October Total: 6 books (plus several magazines, a few newspapers, and a lot of fanfiction)
Year to Date: 92 books (62 new, 30 old)
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In other news, chapter 12 of "Secrets" is now at 12,525 words. That's 1,375 words written in one evening! (Okay, so I copied maybe 500 of them out of CoS, but I still had to play around with those to switch the POV from Harry to Ginny and work them smoothly into Ginny's thought process. Sometimes making Ginny's canon actions reconcile with any sort of rational internal character motivation is very tricky.)
...And after all that progress, I am still not done. *headdesk* I only got half the key scene, because it has decided that it really wants to be two scenes -- one where Ginny works up the nerve to follow a certain course of action (and fails to carry through), and one where she scrambles for a fallback plan (which goes horribly wrong).
