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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (73723)	8/30/2003 6:11:27 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I used to read. They I got a career. Got out of the habit. I read mostly non-fiction now, useful stuff. And I just adore end of the world books, but they don't produce them very often. And mysteries. Mostly I read mysteries and thrillers. Sort of the same low-brow taste I have in movies. <g> I imagine that I will rediscover reading at some point in my life, but apparently not soon.

To: epicure who wrote (73723)	8/30/2003 7:08:12 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I am at the point in this three day novel writing contest when I am wondering why I ever thought I could write a sentence and thinking that the most merciful thing I could do for myself and these boring characters is have a meteor fall on the town. They are begging for a quick death and I am, after all, their God. So why do I want to think about these really fantastic authors? I don't. But it's better than the alternative. Icy Sparks is great. And I haven't read the Straight book you mention, but I did read Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by her and it was an incredible book. The title alone is worthy of admiration. Two books I've been trying to get the boys to read are Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shoutin' and Ava's Man. The guy can flat out write, and they are true stories about his family and his dirt poor deep South roots. Speaking of dirtpoor, I'm at the start of Change Me Into Zeus' Daughter (Barbara Moss) about another Alabama childhood, this one a girl in the 60s and 70s whose face was malformed from malnutrition and who has an alcoholic father but whose mother teaches her to love poetry. DOn't know yet if I recommend it though. Hmm- I seem to be fixated on the South. Have you read any of the Eliz Berg books -Durable Goods, Joy School, and True to Form? If I remember correctly you aren't as fond of Berg as I am, but I loved these stories about a gritty 12-13 year old and she too is such a fine writer. Yellow Raft was good. Ship Fever for me was an upsetting story. Oh- one of the best books I read recently was The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Dang, that was another Southern one-- good portrayal of racial tensions in the 60s South. I will try to think of some VARIETY. Sorry. Back to work- maybe I can turn my heroine into a serial killer on speed....