So this weekend has been a really good one. And this week should be equally as good. As I've mentioned here before, this summer I'm doing a big pleasure reading campaign. To date, I have read fifteen books. I've still got seventeen on my list to read. No, not this entire summer. I'll probably get through five or six more before school begins. Especially once I sit the MPRE and get that out of the way. Plus, at that point, I'll also be only working my weekend job. I haven't read this many books in a long time. Last year I read the Percy Jackson series and maybe one or two others. Still, that's only six or seven. I am really loving being able to discover all these new series and continue ones I've picked up previously. Of course, once I finish the list, I'll have to wait a year or more for new installments. I've got eight series to wait for. Only one of those is non-sci-fi/fantasy, too. Which is kind of impressive. I'm not 100% sure of the break down but I think only 3 of them are young adult series. The rest are all adults. Which for me is kind of odd as I really like young adult novels.
As for writing, I'm nearly halfway through the first draft of Shanna O'Guinn (family saga set in Northern Ireland). After starting two other novels this year and stalling out a little over the 10,000-word mark on each, I'm quite pleased with the progress I'm making on this project. I've also been thinking about what I'd like to write for National Novel Writing Month this year. It's likely going to be a kind of futuristic sci-fi with sword fighting, political assassinations and winged badass leather-clad women. Currently called A Broken Hallelujah. I'm also planning in August (again, once the MPRE is completed) on getting back to revising Euterpe's Song. If you haven't heard, I'm turning it into a young adult novel from a middle grade. I've already added about 3,000 words in word count. And I'm only on chapter 3! I'll definitely be able to beef up the storyline. Then probably in like October-ish (hopefully) I"ll be able to start querying it.
In a more temporally proximate line of thinking, I'm only 4 days from seeing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. I will be going to 3:10am showing at the theater up the street from my apartment because the 12:01am showing was already sold out. Yes, you read that right. Three o'clock in the morning. And then I'm going to work that day, too. Now I know I"m not a college kid anymore and I never did pull all nighters (the awesome folks of the Boston Wrimos will tell you crashed near the end of our twenty-four hour write in last November) but I've got a plan. I'll get home on Thursday, the fourteenth (between 4:45-5:00) and sleep probably until ten o'clock or so. Grab something to eat and maybe watch Suits. Then I'd like to get to the theater around midnight (hopefully they'll be letting us into the theater at that point in time. I'm bringing a book (I do have to keep up that campaign, plus it's a 3 hour wait). I'll be reading The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry. I'll get home from the movie around 5:30 or so and probably nap for a bit. Til maybe seven o'clock, then get to work by 8;30 per usual and work until 4:30. I'll come home, sleep for a bit and hopefully get up and watch Torchwood at ten and then go back to bed and be up the next morning to go to work. I've been planning this for weeks so I really hope it works out properly. I've read a few reviews of the film and they are positive. I'm really hoping they do the parts of he book justice that they've not done so well in the past (i.e. Snape's memory in the fifth film was pretty pointless).
The last thing I'd like to share is that I recently bought concert tickets to see Hanson play the House of Blues here in Boston on October 9th. I saw them at this venue two years ago and it was all right show. I couldn't get out of class so I was a little late to venue so didn't have a very good spot in line to get a good spot within the venue. This time I'm getting there early and getting in line. I want to be near the stage damn, it. I'm also bringing a friend from school. This will be her first Hanson show so hopefully it will be a great experience for her
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