Writing
Despite hitting a little slump over the past week, March was a good writing month. My second-best ever, in fact. Not only did I reach my page-count goal this time, I went 56 pages over it, which leaves my deficit for the year at 24 pages. I'd like to think that I can take care of that next month, but we'll see. There are some non-writing things coming up that are going to take some time.
Reading
This are the books I read in March:
THE AVENGER: MURDER ON WHEELS, Kenneth Robeson (Paul Ernst)
THE SEX LADDER, Anthony Gordon (Robert Leslie Bellem)
SEE HOW THEY RUN, James Patterson
THE HOMESTEADER, Lewis B. Patten
A SOUL IN A BOTTLE, Tim Powers
SECRET AGENT X: AMBASSADOR OF DOOM, Brant House (Paul Chadwick)
CRY OF THE WOLF, Karen Whiddon
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS, Walter Mosley
SAGE TOWER, Dean Owen (Dudley Dean McGaughey)
MORE TWISTED, Jeffery Deaver
I SHOULDN'T EVEN BE DOING THIS!, Bob Newhart
Movies
And the movies I watched in March:
THE GUARDIAN
THE 13TH WARRIOR
THE WHITE GORILLA
RENEGADE
INVINCIBLE
CASINO ROYALE
YOU, ME, AND DUPREE
THE DEPARTED
FLICKA
No separate post for FLICKA, since we just watched it tonight, but I liked it. It's a horse movie. Heartwarming story, spectacular scenery, and Maria Bello. That's enough for me to watch it. I never read the original Mary O'Hara novel MY FRIEND FLICKA. Wasn't big on horse books when I was a kid, although I read THE BLACK STALLION and THE ISLAND STALLION by Walter Farley.
March was an improvement all around. I wrote more, read more, watched more movies. Thank goodness for months with 31 days.
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4 comments:
congrats on a good month. I remember the Walter Farley books with fondness.
I read Flicka a few years ago and was surprised at how good it was. I thought it would be a simple child's book but it appealed to this old scudder on many levels.
Congrats on a good month! Did you comment on the Dean Owen novel? I've liked everything I've read by him and it would be interesting to hear more about his works.
Juri,
I wrote a short review of Dean Owen's SAGE TOWER for Owlhoot, the Western apa. If I can remember, once the next mailing has come out I'll post the review here, too. In the meantime, yeah, it's a good, tough traditional Western, which is what you'd expect from Dean Owen.
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