While I haven’t forgotten about my old blog here, I haven’t written much in it either. I can blame being busy with other things, like going to the hardest military school I’ve ever attended or moving back across the Atlantic again, those are reasons and not excuses. The one thing that has maintained is my desire to write.
In just under a month, my anthology group, Transcendent Authors, will be releasing our next tome. This one is Deceit. They all vetoed my idea of printing the cover upside down, changing author’s names on stories, and just having blank pages. More than likely they were spot on. I’ll post more on what we did decide to do soon.
But this post is just something from the last year I haven’t really talked about much. I use Facebook as an online storage tool for my travel pictures and videos. Their recent change to only allow Livestreams to exist for a month notwithstanding. Having an unlimited amount of storage online is awesome, but one of the greatest features is that every day I can check my memories and see what I was doing on this day in past years. Today’s memory featured this gem about reading. It tickled me when I wrote it, It tickled me when I read it. So I thought I’d share it here. For context, last year I watched the Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix which inspired me to read every Michael Connelly book in less than six months. This was how it went:
After watching The Lincoln Lawyer (LL) on Netflix I watched the movie then started reading the books. knowing there was the Bosch series as well indecoded to just them as they came. Sure enough after LL2, it said read Bosch (B) 14.
So I read on. Kept going. Then hit a Bosch book that was Renee Ballard (RB) 3. Couldn’t find RB 1, so I went with RB 2 where she met Bosch, meaning RB 1 was just her.
Whatever. Finished Lincoln Lawyer books, then Ballard books and went for Bosch books.
They started in 92. After B 1, I read B 3, then B 2. Don’t do that but I’m on track. Yesterday I finished B 6 and started B 7 to find out it’s Terry McCaleb (TM) 2. What?
So I found a used bookstore and picked up TM 1, Jack McEvoy 1 (no clue who he is but he’s probably coming in sooner or later), an unrelated Michael Connelly book, and Bosch 8.
Or, in more succinct language, TL, DR: found a used bookstore in Huntsville.