Long Time No Write

Its been quite a while since I blogged anything. It has been a busy few months with the holidays. I also visited NM and PA. I am chairperson on a ball committee so I had to research and write content for the new website. And of course I'm still trying to re-enter the work force for a steady paycheck. I read a ridiculous amount of books too. Mostly Young Adult/Young Reader's Children books. If they were made into movie, I watched the movie too. Its amazing what you can accomplish when you give up TV!
Here they are not in any particular order:
Larklight -Phillip Reeve
Sirena -Donna Jo Napoli
Howl's Moving Castle -Diana Wynne Jones (Animated movie)
The City of Ember -Jeanne DuPrau (movie)
Savvy -Ingrid Law
Dragon Slippers - Jessica Day George
The Wee Free Men -Terry Pratchett
Tamsin -Peter S. Beagle
Fablehaven Book One -Brandon Mull
The Old Country -Mordicai Gerstein
Water Tales (two short stories)-Alice Hoffman (Aquamarine movie)
The Great Cheese Conspiracy -Jean Van Leeuwen
The Immortals Wild Magic -Tamora Pierce
The Immortals Wolf-Speaker -Tamora Pierce
The Immortals Emperor Mage -Tamora Pierce
The Immortals The Realms of the Gods -Tamora Pierce
Twilight -Stephanie Meyers (movie)
New Moon -Stephanie Meyers (movie)
Eclipse -Stephanie Meyers
Breaking Dawn -Stephanie Meyers
Jonathan Livingston Seagull -Richard Bach
The Moorchild -Eloise McGraw
The Castle in the Attic -Elizabeth Winthrop
Little Bo -Julie Andrews Edwards (yes the Julie Andrews)

I've started The Great Tree of Avalon by T.A. Baron but put it aside before Christmas. I think I needed a break from reading. I have a few other books started too, Harry Potter 5, Good Omens and a Paul Gallico collection of his classic short stories including The Snow Goose.

I found two of the books in the City of Ember series at a used bookstore so I am excited to see how that story continues. The movie based on the first book was OK. It could have been better. It is funny how Hollywood changes the story from the book for the movie. Not a fan of the changing stuff, I have to say.

I plan to continue my education of reading other author's books. It certainly has inspired me to write more. To wander bookstores visualizing my future book on the new release table up front or picture where my book would be on the shelf alphabetically. The week before Christmas I volunteered to gift wrap books for charity at a well known bookstore. One day a woman bought 22 books for a church group. So as I was wrapping all of them I imagined that one day someone would buy 22 copies of my book too. Very empowering.

I really must clean these glasses!