And another chance to win So Over It...
8 July 2010
For whatever reason, all my scheduled giveaways wound up within two weeks of each other. Today I’m on Casey Herringshaw’s blog where you can learn two things most people don’t know about Stephanie-the-writer. And if you missed it, I blogged yesterday at Erica’s about how I’m not so sure about this whole adult thing…
Other than giveaways, here are the big things going on in my life. In no particular order:
1. Sleeping.
Sleeping is good stuff. Yesterday I took an hour and a half nap due to the fact that it was rainy and dark outside. Oh, right. And because I’m pregnant. Which leads us into:
2. Being pregnant
I’d totally forgotten how the last weeks of pregnancy seem to just drag on. And on. And on. And after being at the hospital twice with false labor, I really can’t believe that I’m still pregnant.
With McKenna, I spent the last couple weeks staring at my belly chanting stuff like, “Come out, come out, come out.” Then on Christmas Eve, when she was 10 days old, we had our first night with her where she would not go to sleep, would not stop crying. Then I kept rocking her, thinking, “Go back in, go back in, go back in.”
3. Lots and lots of reading
In the last week, I’ve read two and a half books. Miss Match by Sara Mills, which was great. Only thing is, it’s a total cliffhanger ending, and there’s no sign of book three being published. Which just makes my heart hurt for Sara. I can’t imagine how frustrating that is to deal with.
Then I finally got around to reading The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Macker. Soooooo good. And also, surprisingly, quite sad. Or at least it was surprising to me. There was some sex stuff in there that I don’t think I’d want my teen reading, but it was a really wonderful book and very deserving of all the awards it won.
Now I’m reading The Cowboy by Joan Johnston. It’s something I never would have picked up on my own, but Donald Maass uses it as an example in his fabulous Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook so I’ve been wanting to read it. Again, there’s some sex stuff in there that makes me go, “Eek!” but the story is masterfully woven.
Hope everyone is having a great week!
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