Tuesday Book Club
A certain writer friend of mine came up with this idea a while ago of reading other authors’ books before you meet them. I thought it was a GREAT idea. So this week, knowing I was going to have lunch with Tina Ferraro a few days ago, I read her YA novel Top 10 Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress. I heard someone describe this as “perfect YA chick lit–all of the things you want in chick lit, without any of the annoying parts you want to skip over,” and I agree. A great, pure girly book. Plus Tina is a really, really nice woman, and it’s always great to meet other authors you enjoy hanging out with. Bonus.
Also read a secret research book which I can’t reveal or you’d know what I’m writing about next, and I like to keep those things under wraps until the book is done. Just my way. I find if I talk too much about works in progress, I end up taking some of the heat out of the project. Best to practice containment.
So that’s it for me this week. How about all of you?
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August 28th, 2007 at 6:53 am
I’m still reading “The Know-It-All”. It’s a good read, I’ve just been busy.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:58 am
I finished Under The Rose, Eat That Frog, and Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature.
And I read Tina’s book earlier this year. I enjoyed it a lot. And then I spilled wine on it. But that was an accident.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:04 am
Good luck with your secret book!
Glad that you and Tina got to meet up.
I’m carryng around this month’s readergirlz pick IRONSIDE by Holly Black and my scripts.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:11 am
I read D.A. by Connie Willis and just started The Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer. (I’m loving the crows and their chatter! And that imp whose nose is described as: “each nostril spacious enough to fit his big toes into—which he frequently did.” Ha! How great is that!)
The library also came through on my reservation for Eat, Pray, Love and just when I least expected it to. I mean, didn’t they tell me there were 150 people on the list when I signed up a month ago?
August 28th, 2007 at 7:13 am
I finished An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England(really funny and sad,like an Alexander Payne movie)by Brock Clarke.
Still in the midst of a few other books but have started The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly(she’s having a follow up of sorts coming out in January called The Winter Rose that I picked up at BEA. Lucky for me,I still had an ARC of Tea Rose still laying about).
Hey,Katie-I’ve read Know It All and it is great. I got to interview the author for my blog(a really nice guy,I might add)after he e-mailed me a thank you for my mention of the book. A.J. Jacobs is coming out with a new book this called The Year of Living Biblically,which looks just as good as KIA.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:14 am
I read Meg Cabot’s second Queen of Babble book, which I enjoyed, and now I’m reading When I Crossed No-Bob by Margaret McMullan (forthcoming in Nov.), a book set in the south during the Reconstruction. I’m only a few chapters in, but so far, it’s interesting.
August 28th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Um, hello? Does anyone other than me think Robin’s post today hsould have been — WOO HOO, TODAY MY FIRST NOVEL IS OFFICIALLY OUT!!!
I’m reading BOY TOY by Barry and an ARC of LEFTOVERS by Laura Wiess.
August 28th, 2007 at 8:18 am
I read a play my husband had written, before I went out with him the first time. I went out with him anyway.
August 28th, 2007 at 8:20 am
@laura–”duh” (slap to the forehead)–and isn’t there something happening in tempe?
August 28th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Man, I hate seeing typos in my posts when it’s too late to fix them!
August 28th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Robin, I surfed over here to do some whopping and hollering about this being your release day and debut party at Changing Hands, only to see mention of ME and my book! (Wow.) I’d say YOU are the one who is “really, really nice”! May I return the compliments and wish you, oh…the best day of your life!
And a PS to Heather: loved hearing about you spilling wine on the book…just hope you got your fair share!
August 28th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Laura, you know Tuesdays are for all of us. I can’t rightly steal the spotlight.
BUT I will post something nice and long tomorrow about the big event tonight, and that would be, of course EVERYONE MEETING PATRICK!!!
August 28th, 2007 at 10:15 am
i’m covered in hives!!!!
August 28th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Reading Haven Kimmel’s new novel, which is just pure and total heaven and like giving yourself a little gift every time you sit down to read.
And reading a certain novel by a certain Ms. Robin Brande, though it’s slow-going (on both novels), since my two girls won’t just sit quietly all day so that I can read for eight hours straight — what is their deal anyway?
August 28th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Hi! I’ve been terrible. I’m a reading maniac, but I haven’t been checking in the past two weeks. Sorry! =(
This week I read a few. I read Cindy Gerard’s Into the Dark. It was the last of her romance (Bodyguards) series. Those were fun books and characters. I’ll miss them.
I also reread Lemony Snicket’s Austere Academy. Loved it… again!
I read Janet Evanovich’s new book Hot Stuff in a day. It was okay. Nothing special, but it was fun and full of fluff.
And I think I might have read my favorite book of the year. I finished Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight! Wow! Seriously! Wow! I loved it and I can’t wait to read the next two! I rate it up there with The Time Traveler’s Wife! Pure fantabulousness!
August 28th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
OH! I CAN’T WAIT TO MEET PATRICK! IS HE AS DREAMY AS I IMAGINE?
The book I am reading is about to be prempted by a couple of purchases made this evening.
Wait! Where am I????
August 28th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
patrick, you are so darn live and wiggly!
August 28th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Yes, it’s true. I am not allowed to be cooked on TV. But it seems quite possible to do that while walking to the car…
August 28th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
I read a book from my youth called Not Just Party Girls by Jeanne Betancourt, which was a bit more superficial than I remember. But hey, _I_ was probably a bit more superficial than I remember. Oh well.
Currently reading three at once - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Gone with the Nerd (my first romance novel ever), and listening to Freakonomics, which is truly amazing. Loving all three.