Did I Miss Something???

Today was spent running errands and coming home to realize it was much later than it should be. (And the woman at the bank said I couldn’t withdrawal extra hours!! Maybe I need to find a new bank.) 

One of my normal stops was to the library; I proceeded to ask the Librarian a question in a whispered tone. And what did I get back from her??? Well, she yells “What?” 

We are in a library! She isn’t supposed to be talking loudly…right? 

Did I miss a flyer that said you no longer have to whisper at the library?! 

Well, I continued to speak in a tone that was just loud enough for her to hear; all the while, she continued to speak to me in a loud voice. 

Is it because libraries carry Blu-ray movies and Cosmo magazines that they have thrown all the old rules out. Why else should any of us assume we are allowed to talk in anything other than a whisper. Do we envision the Librarian smacking us over the head with a dictionary if we don’t whisper, I surely must, as when I left several minutes later, books stacked, arms full, I whispered, “bye.”

This book…is too good…sad to say

I don’t really know why I picked up “If You Were My Man,” at the library, but for some reason I did, and I even hate to say it, but I actually love this book.

Now I have never read a book like this before. My husband calls it a Porno Book. I think because of the cover. But I’m 120 pages into it and so far, no porno. Truthfully not even any romance…just a bunch of waiting!!

But I have an issue with this book. It’s soooo untrue.

I think all of these romance books are written by women. And as a woman we know what kind of fantasy man we want. One that doesn’t exist or that we would have to piece together from a bunch of man parts.

A man doesn’t think like the men in these romance books, although they might say the cliché things that the man in this book says…gag!!! But, men aren’t this complex and they surely don’t feel the way these men feel. A man doesn’t think about “walking a girl home for safety,” no his thought would be “maybe when we get there I can get sex!!” He doesn’t think about “how nice her blonde hair looks and that he wants to run his hands through it,” nope he “wants to tug in when they are having sex!!!” Or “I hope she doesn’t fall and hurt herself,” no, he is thinking “if she falls and gets hurt can we still have sex?!”

All guys are thinking is how they can get sex, or just about sex. That’s it, but a book with real thoughts would only be dialogue…thinking sex…dialogue…thinking sex…dialogue…sex!!! The book would be rather short.

So let all the men out there know they need to write a romance book…oh wait…that might just come out as a picture book that we have to purchase from the high shelf in the back of the store! Never mind.

The Book List…for April

Yes, a day early, but the local library already had the April issue of BookPage, and my dogs gave me enough time this morning to read through it. So…here is what is being added to my long list of books to read!

Rising Road by Sharon Davies

The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd by Jana Bommersbach

Girls in Trucks and Men and Dogs both by Katie Crouch

Kid Carolina - R.J Reynolds Jr. by Heidi Schnakenberg

I’m usually drawn to a book by it’s cover, however, all five of these books don’t have what I call grabber covers. So it might be hit and miss this month, haha. If anyone out there has read these new books, is reading them, or plans to read them, let me know!

Library vs. Buying

As a writer, the library has always been a great place to go, for research and getting the latest information on upcoming books, and a wide variety of items to check out without having to open your wallet.

However, as a writer, this posses an issue…it doesn’t sell books for an author.

But lately, as I plow through my book list of collected titles for over five some years, I realize most of the books out there, well, suck! 80% of the books I feel sounded interesting on the back cover turn out to be poorly written, edited, or simply space fillers. One specific author, whom I won’t name, but hugely popular, is putting out 400 page books, however, if you take out the wide page margins, large type set, one page chapter breaks, you are left with a 200 page book of poor quality writing. But because his old books were always 300-400 pages the publisher must feel they need to keep this…and why…in an time of media, do we want to market a 400 page book!?!?

So the question is how do we take our precious money and walk into a bookstore and pick a book to buy when we aren’t sure it’s worthy? While I personally love the smell of a new book, it would be awful having to spend my money on a great new smelling book only to be 10 pages in and wanna throw the book on my shelf and never finish it.

So off I go to my local library, to pick up movies, magazines, some children’s books, and a few novels from my list…but with guilt if the book is good…for the author deserves the money.