books

I love to read. I keep several books in my headboard, and try to pick one at bedtime that will inform my dreams. If I don't have such fodder, I just find a good novel or series and devour them instead. Right now my selection in the headboard is as follows:

Energy Addict by Jon Gordon (from Jamba Juice)
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
The Tibetan art of Serenity by Christopher Hansard
Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner
Writing the Natural Way by Gabriele Lusser Rico

and the next in the Scott Westerfield series assigned to me by my daughter: Extras (I'll have to sneak the one before that out of her room since I pretended to read it and now I really want to.)

The book in the headboard that I'm avoiding reading is titled the Sexual Healing Journey by Wendy Maltz. It's so salty that I have to take it in very small bites. It's also not the greatest for reading just before sleep because I have so many nightmares anyway, I don't need to trigger them.

Yesterday I ate up Janet Evanovich's Plum Lucky; and tried to look into Sue Grafton for how to write mystery. But after reading A is for Alibi I'm going to let the alphabet rest, even though I bought a used hardbound all the way to C.

There is a small stack of books on the shelf that I gathered from the used book store and I'll whittle at them as I finish some of my present titles. I want to learn how to write mysteries. I want to write them with a glaze of the romance genre. Is there already the romance mystery genre (a "who's gonna do it?" like Romancing the Stone)?