Uncategorized 05 Jan 2008 03:01 pm
Slowly, gradually…
Life is still all over the place. Living in two places is not conducive to writing. But I did get some done today, even if it was restructuring and editing my slave story. The princess in this particular fairy tale has a tendency to like rough play but feels guilty about it. The slave out for revenge will use her guilt to make her suffer and will suffer himself in the process. Like a lot of my stories the hero and heroine have assumptions and fears about each other which are unfounded. Much of the story is getting the both of them to be honest with each other. But they can have a lot of angst fill fun along the way. I’ve used this picture because chains are a theme that run through the story. Not just physical chains but chains of need, desire and in the end, love.
Edited on 13 January - But Photobucket didn’t like the image! Too racy for them.
I’m just about to set up a What I’ve Read in 2008 page and looking over my 2007 page I’m finding it hard to say which books were my favorites. Certainly Barbara Samuel, Shana Abe, J D Robb, Judith Ivory and Harlan Coben remain my favorites, but I also like Nalini Singh, Phillip Roth and the first of Sara Douglass’s new fantasy series. But there were lots of others I liked including Anna Campbell and Paula Roe. Not to forget Ruth Wind. Or Donna Leon. Or Suzanne Brockmann. Or Elizabeth Hoyt.
How was your New Year? Mine was very quiet. I like it like that.
on 29 Jan 2008 at 12:16 pm 1.Cath said …
Hi Keziah,
Hope you are now settled into your new job. I had a quiet new year too. Played 27 holes of golf in 40 plus degree heat and then spent the evening in a country golf club listening to an Elvis impersonator (the Las Vegas years, I’m afraid). He wasnt bad, but if I’d driven 70 kms up the road, I could have had a Robbie Williams impersonator instead. Didn’t know that until the next day, though. Sigh.
Of the books you read, how would you rate The Thirteenth Tale and My Sister’s Keeper? These are the only ones we have in common. I adored The Thirteenth Tale - so wonderfully atmospheric - but the conclusion to My Sister’s Keeper left me furious. When I’d finished it, my girlfriend pressed another Jodi Picoult on me (The Pact), but after two chapters I gave it back to her because I was so worried she was going to do something horrible to me again like she had in My Sister’s Keeper.
Did you end up reading Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise? For some reason I am positive I saw it on your 2007 list once before….I’m reading that next when I’ve finished Tim Winton’s Dirt Music.
Cathryn