Yep, I’m really slacking. Not exactly a good way to start a new year, huh? I just realized today, Thursday, that I hadn’t posted on my blog yesterday. And I had finally finished reading a book, too! I’m beginning to think that maybe I should just post on the day I finished reading, regardless of what day of the week it is. Or what time. Or how many days in the week I post (although, unless I’m on a cruise, I doubt there will be many multi-day posts in a week).
So, I’ll give that a try and see what happens. I mean, I’m at my computer compiling the post after I read a book anyway. It wouldn’t take that much effort to just POST it when I’m done!
Here’s what I read since my last update:
Book 39
Title: Fairy Tale
Year of publication: 2022
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Horror
Series: N/A
# of Pages: 598
Paper or plastic: Hard cover
How obtained: Purchased
Blurb from book: Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
Charlie starts doing odd jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
My thoughts: Took me quite a while to read this, but I did enjoy it a lot. I hadn’t read the jacket cover, so really had no idea what the story was about. Took about half-way through the book before this Stephen King story became a Stephen King story (if you know what I mean). By then, I picked up the pace of reading. Didn’t want to put it down!
I haven’t set a goal for how many books I want to read in 2023. I didn’t reach my goal of 50 for 2022. Maybe I should set it low, like two books a month. That seems doable.
I’m trying to get back into some kind of schedule. Okay, not really trying. But thinking about it a lot! Okay, maybe only thinking about it every now and then. Am I hopeless or what?
I had my scan on the 3rd. Now I’m just waiting on the results. I never thought my life could be turned so upside down from a disease I can’t really tell I have! I feel more effects from the treatment than I do from the disease. I guess that should be a good thing. Means it was caught early. So why can’t I seem to get back into my old schedule? Why can’t I get back into writing? The brain sure is one strange organ.
Happy Reading! And Happy New Year!
Stacy
4 comments:
Anything that affects your body affects every part of you. Not to mention the disruption and stress. You'll get back into the groove.
Don't feel bad. I just realized the post at the IWSG site didn't go live yesterday morning. And it was mine. Crap.
That's what I do now, I just post whenever. I used to try to stick to a day and that did work for me for a bit now though, I just shoot'em when I got 'em ready. Happy 2023!
Alex - Well, since I'm not on my computer all that often, I didn't notice your post was late. Maybe it'll be that way for whoever follows me! :)
Ivy - Sounds like a good plan to me! I'll just shoot'em when I got'em ready! :D
It really is working for me. I mean, I do like the idea of a set day though that freedom to just shoot'em when we got'em is refreshing!
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