Breakfast of Champions - reading

Finished "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut. If you don't like the n-word, don't read this. With that warning, it wasn't what he said a lot of times, it was how he said it. It was kindof a metastory where the author was a participant. Yeast excrement all around! (And so on.)

And Eternity - reading

Finished "And Eternity" by Piers Anthony, the last in the Incarnations of Immortality series. With 3 female lead characters, it couldn't take long (based on the rest of the series) for the topic of rape to come up. Anthony didn't disappoint. It started early and kept on throughout. Also, most Incarnations think a "taste for young flesh" is totally acceptable. The story was alright. It did have some long bunny trails.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven - reading

Finished "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. Today is Eddie's birthday. There were some very quotable lines in this book, and the overall message was that everyone's life has meaning. However, it was overly melancholy and sentimental.

For Love of Evil - reading

Finished "For Love of Evil" by Piers Anthony. The parts that retold what happened earlier in the series were done much better than in "Green Mother" - no sense of "retread" here. Everything ties together well in the series. Overall, loved this one.

Random Writing

NaNoWriMo posted to Facebook: "Go to the random number generator, get a number between 1 and 100 and then write a story with that many words." My number was 26. I wrote:

“Back in Black” blaring on the stereo, he gripped the wheel tighter, adrenaline surging through his veins. Then came his moment in the spotlight: The crash!

The Tourist - reading

Finished "The Tourist" by Olen Steinhauer. For a spy-genre novel, the characters were pretty darn chatty, and truthful. It seemed to be a decent story to start off a series. I see now that there is a sequel, though I don't feel strongly compelled to seek it out.

Being a Green Mother - reading

Finished "Being a Green Mother" by Piers Anthony. My thought for most of it was, "retread, retread, retread," as the story covered much ground that was already covered. What was original was interesting, but there wasn't enough of it. However, I did appreciate the depth of Satan's plan in this one.