When you read a book that has been talked about all over the place as being a great read, but you just don't like it - do you put it down, or slog through to the end to see if it gets better? I have to admit, I try to be the "slog through it" type, but I'm much more likely to put it down. I was reading something recently that I'd heard so much about, but it felt to me like being hit with a stick over and over again. After three tries I finally put it down for good. Although I do have to wonder - what's wrong with me? Does everyone else know something that I don't. It's likely.
As of now, there are approximately 116 hours left until the kids go back to school. Not that I'm counting or anything. I love spending time with my kids - in fact we're about to go swimming right now - but I'm getting nothing done while they're home all day. I can type approximately two sentences before someone wants something to eat, a fight has broken out over the trampoline, another neighbor kid needs a drink of water or any one of a million other distractions happens. Next summer, after I hit it big ;) I have two words for you: more daycamp!
On this date: In 79, Mount Vesuvius erupts in Italy.
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About Me
- CJ Omololu
- Northern California, United States
- My debut novel DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS is about a girl growing up in a hoarded home. TRANSCENDENCE and the sequel INTUITION are about a group of people who remember all of their past lives. The thriller THE THIRD TWIN will be out on February 24th, 2015.
Books
Intuition
(YA; Walker/Bloomsbury)
Coming June 2013!
Past lives make the present a dangerous place.
Transcendence
(YA; Walker/Bloomsbury)
Now Available!
Reincarnation, romance and revenge.
Dirty Little Secrets
(YA; Walker/Bloomsbury) (YA; Walker/Bloomsbury)
Coming June 2013!
Past lives make the present a dangerous place.
Transcendence
(YA; Walker/Bloomsbury)
Now Available!
Reincarnation, romance and revenge.
Dirty Little Secrets
A story about hoarding and family secrets.
(Picture Book; Clarion)
When it's six o'clock in San Francisco, what time is it in the rest of the world?
3 comments:
LOL! I love that you're counting the hours. I'm not there yet, but it's getting close. Let's see ... I think I'm at close to 230 hours. That's still wayyy too many for my sanity.
Gawd, I identify with this whole thing about not getting into a book that everybody is raving about. At ALA Midwinter this year, I was like a detective, seeking out others who couldn't get into one book that was going to win all kinds of awards--without giving myself away as some kind of idiot. :-) The good news is, I found a bunch of other people who felt the same way! There's a reason BR makes 31 flavors, and all that....
Agent E.
It's fun when you find someone who thinks the same way about a certain book - but you have to fly under the radar so that you don't look like one of the pod people or something.
I knew there was something I liked about you ;)
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