It is almost Christmas time! Honestly I am just glad that this year is mostly over. I wrote here about what I plan to do in the new year. I am excited to see what this year brings. I know now not to let the Dr talk me into the hot new pill for bipolar or rather shizo-effective disorder. Every year they come out with a new pill and claim that THIS is the one that is gonna make all our troubles go away. I finally have the courage and strength to call bullshit. In 2015 I am taking my health and happiness into my own hands. I made the mistake of thinking the DR could give me salvation but in reality they are bumbling around in the dark. I am tired of ending up in the ER. It is almost embarrassing. I have been in the ER almost every February like clockwork. Not this year.
I was looking at my email one day and I saw a message from someone on BookCrossing wanting to do a trade with me. I havent done that in years and I forgot how much I enjoyed it. I think I will keep it up. I remember when BookCrossing was the hub of the bookish community but it seems to have died down here on the American side. I was looking through the profiles and it seems that most of the people are international. My, how things change.
I have really gotten my reading mojo back. I read a book a day last week. I got Jo Nesbo’s THE SON and started reading that and I couldnt read 600 pages in a day. That is what broke my streak. haha I am really enjoying the book. It is funny. Many of my friends talk about how they would like to meet this football player or rock starts or whatever. I just wanna meet my favorite authors so they can tell me stories. I wonder what it would be like to be married to say, Stephen King. If his latest book REVIVAL is any indication, he can tell twisted stories. It wasn’t SCARY per se but it did leave you with a what the fuck did I just read feeling. I reading the ending 5 times and finally I went online and was like OHHHHH that’s what he was saying. Damn. A review is coming soon so I don’t wanna say too much now. I LOVE books that leave me with a what the fuck did I just read feeling. I feel that so many authors are afraid to GO THERE and they have the makings of a really good story but something holds them back. I encourage all authors to break the chains of polite society and explore the darker side of life. It is funny I feel this way because I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian home and they are all about God this God that. And they live such narrow little lives. I want to know ALL both yin and yang, Good and evil, God and Satan. I seem to crave to know all the forbidden knowledge. Now I have actually read books on the topic and had the tar scared out of me. I read one book on demons and I woke up at 3 am every morning for WEEKS convinced that the top demons have come to drag me to the depths of hell. It was labeled a non-fiction title also.
So anyway Jo Nesabo writes about the gritty side of life in Norway so I eat that shit up. I am gonna try and finish it today as it has to go back to the library soon.
What are YOU reading today?
I like Nesbo too. Pretty much he can’t do much any wrong…at least so far. I’m going to be reading a little Jussi Adler-Olsen, another Scandinavian crime fiction author.