Time for change

Nearly two months have passed since I last posted to my blog. Bad me. But I think the problem is that I never really set a purpose for my blog. I mean, why does it exist? What do I hope to accomplish with it? My blog needs a focus and I have decided to give it a huge overhaul. Stay tuned...

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I am trying to copy and paste my latest story here but for some reason Blogger keeps telling me the html coding is bad.
Grrrrrrrr!

Kami is not forgotten

Eighteen years ago on Sept. 14, students at SLHS lost a fellow classmate. Kami Villanueva, a high school senior, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by serial killer Leslie Allen Williams. Please take a moment today to remember the friend who was taken from us so abruptly, so brutally many years ago.

Latest book: Jemima J by Jane Green

Lately I have found it necessary to get my hands on all sorts of mainstream books, just to compare writing and storytelling styles. Last night I finished reading Jemima J by Jane Green (http://www.janegreen.com/) -- my first by that author. I like Cinderella stories and this one starred a fat girl on her journey to find true happiness, which she, of course, believes she will find once a size eight dress can be slipped over her rump. It is mostly lovely story, told in a conversational tone with a unique voice (or voices since it uses two points-of-view throughout). I, being a fat girl myself at this stage in my life, could identify with Jemima quite often -- even laughed out loud several times. I was thrown out of the story twice, however, and I am not sure if that is because of my tired brain or writer/editor mishaps.

The first time I was jolted out of the story happened in chapter 8 when the Jemima does something she has supposedly never done before ... except she did do it in chapter 4, and I even went back to check on it. Then on page 124, Brad calls her by her name -- something she never told him. She only referred to herself as JJ when dealing with Brad! Well, despite these hiccups, I really did enjoy the book. I think I will try another Jane Green one just to see how her writing has changed over the years since she wrote Jemima J.

Meanwhile, I am pretty deep in some other books, such as My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki (http://www.ruthozeki.com/), Milk Glass Moon by Adriana Trigiani (http://www.adrianatrigiani.com/welcome.html), and another one that I can't recall off the top of my head because I just started it today and plan on it being my "read-while-I-wait-for-the-kids'-bus" book. That's it for now--more later.

Deadline

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