Lint Upon Tweed

I know, I’ve been missing for a little while.  Honestly, I just haven’t felt inspired enough to write.  I am working on a new story but it’s just a concept right now so I won’t share.

What I have been doing is reading a shitload of books.  Let’s start with Ian Sansom.  I started on his Mobile Library Series.  It’s fun and breezy and I can recommend the first in the series: The Case of the Missing Books.  I’m onto the second one now: Mr. Dixon Disappears.  There are four in the series.  I’m not sure if I’ll get to the last two any time soon because there are three book I want to read very soon.  Those are James Hynes’ Next: A Novel, Lisa Lutz‘ The Revenge of the Spellmans, and of course (the priority) Chris Moore’s Bite Me!

Jen bought me a couple of books I wanted for Valentine’s Day too.  Both are by Roald Dahl.  The first is Vile Verses.  It’s large and I’m just skimming through it.  But last night at dinner we read through Revolting Rhymes.  These are the stories you know told in a new, and kind of sick, light.  Snow White, Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, and Red Riding Hood are just a few in the book.  I’ll put it this way: Red Riding Hood is packing heat in this version.  It’s a must read and you can get both on Amazon for cheap.

I’m hoping to get a little inspiration in the coming weeks and start pushing out some more poetry and a little fiction, just for fun.

Until then, keep on reading…books, that is!

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Tags: Case of the Missing Books, Holidays, Lisa Lutz, List of characters in the Shrek series, Little Red Riding Hood, Roald Dahl, Three Little Pigs, Valentine's Day

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