Books. Since I was little, it has always amazed me how people can express so many things so wonderfully in words. While I love to talk (Seriously, just try and get me to shut up about the magic of glass, or how stinking cute my dogs are, or...), I am not usually very eloquent. I can get my point across. I can certainly hold my own in an argument. But stories? I have grand stories in my head, but have never been able to put them into words.
I love fiction, but not fiction that involves real situations with made up characters. I read to escape, so I want to escape all the way. Nearly everything I read involves vampires, werewolves, faeries, zombies, demons, and alternate worlds.
There certainly isn't enough time
to bore you to share all my favorite authors/books, but I just have to plug one author who makes me twitchy just waiting for her next book to arrive. I am in love with Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire. Under Mira Grant, she writes the
Newsfeed series. It is basically about the zombie apocalypse, but so, so much more. I first found her
October Daye books about a faery halfling. She writes beautifully and I can instantly connect and care about the characters. Her endings make me shout out loud and leave me wanting more (in a totally addicted way).
"I guess in the end, it doesn't matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had." - Georgia Mason,
Deadline (Mira Grant)
PSA: My dad was a voracious reader, and when I cleaned out his bookshelves after he died, he had over 3,000 of them. I kept a select few (I have my own
hoard collection to maintain) and I took the rest to the local VA hospital. By the time I wheeled in the third dolly-load, I'm pretty sure half the residents were there. They were ecstatic to see all the new books coming in. My dad was a Viet Nam vet, and I know he would be very happy to see his books go for such a good cause. If you are ever looking to get rid of books, magazines, VHS tapes, or CDs, please consider your local VA. Give a little back to those who have served.
