I'm making slow progress with book #3, but I've come up with some great ideas and I look forward to using them. I'm about halfway done and I feel a lot better about this draft than the first one.
I've been reading a lot lately. I borrowed some of my sister's Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys from the '80s. Now I'm reading a few titles from the older series. I have a bit of a crush on Joe Hardy. I've finally read The Hobbit and enjoyed it. Also, I read a series from the '80s called Couples. Couples is a lot of fun, but the books lost their charm near the end. Even as an adult I enjoy them, but I imagine they're more fun to read as a pre-teen or teenager.
Some authors I like are W. Somerset Maugham and Keigo Higashino. I first began reading W. Somerset Maugham's works when I watched the movie The Razor's Edge on Fox Movie Channel a long time ago (at least over ten years ago). I like his writing because he knew how people think and represented them realistically in his novels. Keigo Higashino is a famous mystery writer in Japan and his novels are slowly being translated into English. A number of his works have been adapted into television series and movies in Japan and I've seen quite a few of them. The translations are easy to read and his stories grab you instantly. The few novels of his I've read, I've found hard to put down once I get started.
I just felt like promoting some things I like. There you have it.
Brittany
