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!