The Current Stack
I haven’t done a book post for a while, have I?
Currently I’m reading a lot of Cormac McCarthy. I’ve finished off All The Pretty Horses (on the train from San Diego), No Country For Old Men (a while ago), Blood Meridian (which got me started on the McCarthy kick), and Child of God. I’m currently working on Outer Dark and The Orchard Keeper; planning on the next two in the Border Trilogy after a while.
I also finished Duras’s The Little Horses of Tarquinia on the train to San Diego, and an annotated Jane Eyre. I took a whack at Crime Scene Chemistry For The Armchair Sleuth, which is very well written and which I eventually gave to the Chemist, my middle sister. I was also working on a huge honking new history of Nazi Germany, mostly because of my interest in the Eastern Front of both world wars. Finished that and a couple other works on the Soviet army in WWII (thank you, DreamLabyrinth!) I’ve started on a secondary interest–the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
I don’t know what I’ll be attempting next, unless it’s finishing the next Kismet book. Which I’m rather successfully avoiding working on a sex scene for. *sigh* Ah, the life of a writer.
So, off I go. I’m listening to Zimmer and Howard’s soundtrack for The Dark Knight, which is atmospheric and creepy for the next Jill book.
I know what the problem is: I’ve been in those relationships where the edge of physical violence and sexual attraction is always there. It’s a fine edge, a cutting edge, and you need to be careful where you hold it. Putting it on paper is, well, thought-provoking. And dangerous.
So I’ve put it off long enough. A civil adieu to you, dear Reader.
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