Here’s (in random order) what’s in the to-read pile next to my bed, waiting for me to raise my eyes up from the 1632 series:
1. Andrew Auseon’s Freak Magnet.
2. Mathew Quick’s Sorta Like a Rock Star.
3. Maureen Johnson’s 13 Little Blue Envelopes.
4. Joshilyn Jackson’s Backseat Saints.
5. Adam Rex’s Fat Vampire.
What’s next on your reading stack?
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Forever Island, by Patrick D. Smith ~ about an 86 year old Seminole Indian in the Big Cyprus Swamp, just north of the Florida Everglades, .
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Sounds good!
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That wasn’t much of a blurb. ; )
We’re new to Florida and watched a DVD called “A Sense Of Place” about Patrick Smith and his Florida based novels last week.
I immediately put him on my reading list:
Forever Island ~ set in Big Cyprus Swamp
Allapattah ~ set in the Everglades
A Land Remembered ~ pioneer days in Florida
According to the flap, Forever Island has “become the classic novel of the Everglades” published in 36 countries.
I haven’t started reading it yet, that’s why my blurb was just a blub. ; )
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Hooked, per your suggestion 🙂
I’m still reading through <The Power of Point of View, and I want to work through those exercises.
As far as fiction, I’m waiting for my turn to read The Cookbook Collector and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. There’s a long waiting list at the library, but that gives me time to dig deep into POV and beginnings.
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I love the title of that last book–I may have to check it out!
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I’m reading “Alligator Bayou” by Donna Jo Napoli (1899 in Louisiana- story of Italians and African Americans); and “Black Pearls” by Lousie Hawes (redone fair tales– I think); and “Take Me” by Lisa Williams Kline (short stories for adults) are on deck. Still working through the first Crosswicks Journal (Madeline L’Engle) which I love.
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I don’t know about Crosswicks–I may have to look that up.
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