This morning—a month later than I planned—I started Cherubim, Book 6 in the Zoë Martinique Investigation Series. And it’s been fun so far. I’m also writing a side book at the same time. Not sure how I’ll be breaking up the time, but I’m pretty sure other little hobbies will have to take a back seat while Zoë commands attention.
Mental Note: Will Rhonda get her just reward? This book? Or the next? Just wait and see… *giggles*
Eh…last week wasn’t that great. Meaning—I got sick. Not sure what it was, but it started Saturday morning when we got up, and then it just sort of got worse when we walked out side to find I had a flat tire (we were on our way to my daughter’s Reading Bowl—which of course she missed. But thank you Scott Banks for changing that tire!)
From that morning on, blech. Constant headache, nausea, low grade fever… just.. blech. Lasted a few days. Then around Tuesday…much better.
So what did I do writing-wise all that time? Nada. Zippo. What I did manage to do was read. A lot. I finished Michael J Sullivan’s Riyria series (I LOVE THESE BOOKS), Konrath’s The List (AWESOME), and Marked by PC Cast (This series looks really interesting). I’m still reading Discovery of Witches and I wanna read just that for now. Though yesterday I downloaded a bunch of mystery/thriller books through Konrath’s Big Kindle Boogie. Now I have a ton of ebooks on my Kindle. Yay!
Ooh. I need to update my GoodReads!
There’s a lot more in there, but as I need to get cracking on getting some words done for the day (on Sekret pen name stuffs), I’ll leave it at that.
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We all know the story of Stone Soup, right? Well if you don’t, here’s a quick re-telling I got off of wikipedia, paraphrased:
Some travellers come to a village, carrying nothing more than an empty cooking pot. The villagers are unwilling to share any of their food stores with the hungry travellers. The travelers fill the pot with water, drop a large stone in it, and place it over a fire. “What are you doing?” a villager asks. The travellers answer that they are making “stone soup”, which tastes wonderful, but it still needs a little bit of garnish to improve the flavour. The villager does not mind parting with a few carrots to help them out, so that gets added to the soup. Another villager walks by, inquiring about the pot, and the travellers again mention their stone soup which has not reached its full potential yet. The villager hands them a little bit of seasoning to help them out. More and more villagers walk by, each adding another ingredient. Finally, a delicious and nourishing pot of soup is enjoyed by all.
Basically, by the time the soup’s made, the stone is forgotten. I remember when I first heard it, my thought was “I hope no one tried to eat that rock.”