where does the time go...

i can't believe it's almost been a year since i last posted...perhaps i should cancel this post and wait until exactly a year has passed...hmmm..one post every year....

so maybe a list of what has been read is appropriate, i started off with very good intentions, but, alas, the written word has gotten the better of me...well, not my written word as is painfully apparent...

discovered dennis lehane, well not in the literal found him and made him known to the general public...and proceeded to read almost everything he had written thus far, with the exception of boston noir, and the given day...both are on the bookshelf. often when i find a "new" author if i like the first book, i will do whatever it takes to find everything else they have ever written excluding shopping lists. it's very sad for me when i've run out of their books or when it takes 5-10 years between books. but, as neil gaiman most eloquently stated to a fan who complained that their favorite author wasn't pushing out the work fast enough for him:

"Look, this may not be palatable, Gareth, and I keep trying to come up with a better way to put it, but the simplicity of things, at least from my perspective is this:

George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.

This is a useful thing to know, perhaps a useful thing to point out when you find yourself thinking that possibly George is, indeed, your bitch, and should be out there typing what you want to read right now.

People are not machines. Writers and artists aren't machines."


so, there's that.

stieg larsson was another discovery, and although i've had the 3rd book, the girl who kicked the hornet's nest on my nightstand for months, i have yet to crack it's freshy new spine. i know that once it's over i will have no other stieg larsson to read and this makes me sad. so i will wait as if it's a fine wine, and savor it when the moment is right.

more recently i've been reading tess gerritsen, i plowed through all of her medical thrillers, harvest, life support, bloodstream and gravity (the bone garden is on the shelf) and now i'm onto the rizzoli and isles series-the surgeon and the apprentice so far, currently reading the sinner, and the following; body double, the mephisto club and ice cold, are also on the "to be" read shelf. I LIKE THEM SO MUCH!!! a bit gory and dark, but, what can i say, she grabs you and off you go!

i will try not to get too lost between the pages...