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Reading

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I’ve been reading a lot lately.  I’ve been downloading a few free ebooks each day and have found some interesting ones, but it seems harder to start a novel-length story than it used to be.  I’ve been reading short story collections and some comic books.  I have read a few longer books though– a couple of romances, a few detective stories (not usually my thing), some non-fiction history and comparative religion, and an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel that I somehow missed in my youth: The Girl from Hollywood.

I used to read for entertainment, but now it feels more like I read for relaxation.  I read and it brings me back to a calmness– kind of resets my tension level to normal.  There really is no substitute for reading as far as I’m concerned.  When I watch movies or TV shows (I’ve been really into Lost Animals of the 20th Century on Hulu), I end up sad or happy or excited, but I don’t get that calm feeling.  Of course that probably has to do with the reading material (and viewing material) I’m choosing right now.

Anyway, The Girl from Hollywood is available free in just about any ebook format under the sun at Manybooks.net.  Follow the link above to get it.  You should check out Manybooks anyway, because they have just about every wonderful book now in the public domain and a few more recent books provided by the authors– all free.

Finally Caught Up

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I’ve been off work for a month now and I’ve only just caught up with my planned quota of writing for the year to date.  And I haven’t been fooling around either.  I’ve been writing, editing, revising, and doing all the associated activities every day.  I really feel pretty good about what I’ve gotten done.  I feel bad that I was so far behind.  School was a bear last year.  Sadly, I don’t expect it to be any easier this coming year, so I have to a get as much done as I can in the month I have remaining.

Ideally, I will have another book done by the time I go back to school.  Barring that, at least I want to be close to finishing one.  My goal is five books a year, but I’ve only met that goal once, in 2010.  In 2011, I only finished 4 and in 2012, only 3.  So far this year it’s 2, and I don’t want to finish with just two.  After all, it’s the difference between having 153 books and 72 books written by the time I’m 80.  Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote over 80 books.  H. Rider Haggard wrote over 100.  I’d like to beat them in quantity if nothing else.  Of course Asimov wrote some ungodly number of books- I don’t know exactly but over 400.  Plus he wrote I, Robot; Foundation, and at least one book of dirty limericks (I had a copy when I was a kid).  Respect.