Let's Hear It for the Colour, Green!
I'm jealous -- hence the greenish title for this blog. It seems everyone has a To-Be-Read pile except me. I have a nebulous To-Be-Read wishlist somewhere in the back of my brain, but it's pretty vague. I have books I would like to read, which are probably still at the library waiting for me to live out my fantasy about having time to read. I also have several books stashed at various locations around my house -- and in my car, in case I need to pass the time while I'm at a doctor's appointment, etc.
But I've got nothing on the night stand. Of course, I don't own a night stand, so that might be part of the problem. I've got nothing on the piano either. Like the night stand, I don't have a piano, but a friend has her To-Be-Read stack on a piano, so I'm thinking that must be a good place. Would things change if I acquired a piano? Since I have no space for a piano, I probably shouldn't even venture down that road.
In recent years, reading adult stuff has been tough going because of the time thing, but I have still made room for reading YA and kidlit -- mostly because I was reviewing it. But even that has come to a standstill. I'm telling you, people -- I don't got no time!!
I keep thinking I'm going to have time -- after I finish the next manuscript. But lately there's always another manuscript after that, and the deadlines are so close, I have to write for my life in order to meet them.
My first novel was published two-and-one-half years after I submitted it. These days I'm lucky to have six months from start to finish.
But if I had time to read. if I ever GET time to read, I think I'd like to curl up with Out of Order by Robin Stevenson, Winter Girls by Laurie Halse Anderson, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer -- not because I'm convinced it's great, but because the reviews are so varied I need to decide for myself, The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve-- I've been meaning to read that one for years, The Soloist by Steve Lopez, another Jodi Procult title just to see if My Sister's Keeper was for real or just a lucky fluke, ... and the list goes on. Unfortunately the actual To-Be Read pile is nowhere to be found.