Feast of Books

And the book craze continues . . .

But, they say that's the best way to learn to write, right?

Anyway. It's always interesting to me how one book leads you to another. I finished reading Amanda Eyre Ward's How to Be Lost early this morning, and in the author interview questions at the end of the book, she mentioned reading Feast of Love (Charles Baxter) because of it's poetic prose. I loved the movie (in spite of bad reviews. Nyah.), and had picked up the book at Half Price Books in December, so I thought I'd pull that one off the shelf next. I need some help with poetic prose at the moment. :-)

I've only read a few pages, so I'll let you know how it goes.

How to Be Lost was different. I liked it in the end, but it took me a little while to get going because it changes POV in some pretty dramatic ways, which threw me off a bit at first. Interesting story, though. Gave me some food for thought on POV switching, for sure.

And now it is time to put on my chauffeur hat so I can get two (still very eager about it) girls off to piano lessons. (Shh...let me tell you a secret--if you want your kids to practice their music, treat practice time like a privilege. They can only do it when all their other junk is done--homework, chores, etc. They will BEG to practice.)