Gah!

Dear Frazzled Ewoks,

Long time no post. I finished a first draft of a novel, Paper Heroes, recently and am now of my writer's high of finishing the story--a rough draft anyway. (Also, interesting to note that Heroes can easily be misspelled as Herpes, as I have just come to find out while typing this blog. That might have been a more interesting novel.) Anyway, since I am procrastinating doing all this editing, a seemingly insurmountable task, let's talk books.

I just finished Lisa Lutz's The Spellman Files. It's a really fun story about the Spellman clan of California who are a family of private eyes. It features Izzy Spellman, a 28 year old problem-child and eldest sister. The Spellman Files precedes three sequels, which I am planning to read, and supposedly, a movie is in the works.

In similar news, I found on that Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell will be made into a movie soon as well, and rumored to star Leonardo DiCaprio according to IMDB.com.

What else? I started the very short novella, The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. It's about the Queen of England discovering the love of reading through a mobile library that stops neat the palace grounds every week. Seems pretty good so far. The word "delightful" comes to mind.

Until next time,

Matt