I know it’s been a while since I have posted – I am trying to get used to a new school schedule, and to teaching a new thing. Typical. When I get home, I’m usually beat. I haven’t done any art lately, either.
One thing I am doing right now is reading. I have to be diligent about going to the library on Saturdays when I can, because the Gwinnett County Libraries are now closed on Sunday and Monday. I have been going to two different branches lately: the one nearer to me is okay, but the one nearer my gym is larger and has a better selection of books on CD.
I just got finished reading Duma Key by Stephen King. I checked it out a week ago on CD and was so into it that I finally stopped by a Barnes and Noble and bought a copy of the book so that I could read it in bed at night. I haven’t read a SK novel in a long time, and I thought was great. I thought that the narrator on the CD was perfect. It’s just that I HAD to find out what was going to happen. I finished it last night at around 1:00 AM.
I was just looking at a message board on Stephen King.com and there was a discussion about who should be cast if there were a movie. I think that James Remar would be perfect as Edgar – he’s about that age and has that upper middle class business man look about him. He’s that guy that plays the dad on Dexter, but I forgot that he also was in Sex and the City. I had not strong opinions about the other characters, but I think that the suggestion that Jeff Bridges play Wireman was a good one.
You’ll have to read the novel to see what I’m talking about!
I also checked out a Young Adult novel by Laura Resau called What the Moon Saw. It’s about a half Mexican-American girl who goes down to boonies outside of Oaxaca to meet her grandparents. It’s really good – and I will now finish it since I have completed Duma Key.
On CD, I am listening to The Chicken Dance by Jacques Couvillon. It is set in Southwestern Louisiana and I had checked it out in the past but didn’t get a chance to read it.
Time for supper.
Maison Celeste 