Update...
So currently sitting on the floor of my house, all empty. The moving went out today, but at least I still have internet. The house somehow looks smaller, empty. Which is good because we're losing about 1000 feet in the new apartment. But I have a feeling the West Coast is just simply going to be awesome.
I'll miss Texas, it's been our home for 3 years, and I can't say I'm taking any bad memories from it. Nice people, (mostly) nice weather and I found a job that I like and am able to keep doing from LA. The Lone Star state was a blessing, we bought out first house here, planned to stay for a long time, but opportunities come up and you can't let them slip. Few things are worse than living with "what could've been..." so we're all packed up and ready to go. New adventure!
For the next challenge I have to write a descent into madness and I hadn't read either of the examples that they mentioned so I'm currently reading "The Rats in The Wall". Well, "currently" is a bit of a stretch, I just opened it on the kindle app and went back to work. I hope to get to it in the coming days.
I did sneak some time this weekend in between packing stuff and assembling boxes to read "The Yellow Wallpaper" and I have to say it was pretty well done. Charlotte Perkins Gilman really made me fell as if I was in the head of this poor madwoman, her obsessions became mine, and the frustrations as well. I definitely need to read more by women authors. I don't mean to be sexist in reading material, honestly, it's just worked out that way.
I have read some Margaret Weis, Anne Rice, Naomi Novak and of course, J.K.Rowling, and I've enjoyed their books (I'm trying to forget I read Twilight out of curiosity, and will deny if asked!), but I think I'm going to dedicate some time to other famous females in the genres I'm interested in, Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K LeGuin,Octavia Butler, Madeleine L'Engle and many more (yes, I found a list online). Women are so fundamentally different in the way they think from men that I'm doing myself a disservice from not reading more from their perspective.
Anyway, if you haven't read "The Yellow Wallpaper" go do it, it's pretty cool...
Chair..
I'll miss Texas, it's been our home for 3 years, and I can't say I'm taking any bad memories from it. Nice people, (mostly) nice weather and I found a job that I like and am able to keep doing from LA. The Lone Star state was a blessing, we bought out first house here, planned to stay for a long time, but opportunities come up and you can't let them slip. Few things are worse than living with "what could've been..." so we're all packed up and ready to go. New adventure!
For the next challenge I have to write a descent into madness and I hadn't read either of the examples that they mentioned so I'm currently reading "The Rats in The Wall". Well, "currently" is a bit of a stretch, I just opened it on the kindle app and went back to work. I hope to get to it in the coming days.
I did sneak some time this weekend in between packing stuff and assembling boxes to read "The Yellow Wallpaper" and I have to say it was pretty well done. Charlotte Perkins Gilman really made me fell as if I was in the head of this poor madwoman, her obsessions became mine, and the frustrations as well. I definitely need to read more by women authors. I don't mean to be sexist in reading material, honestly, it's just worked out that way.
I have read some Margaret Weis, Anne Rice, Naomi Novak and of course, J.K.Rowling, and I've enjoyed their books (I'm trying to forget I read Twilight out of curiosity, and will deny if asked!), but I think I'm going to dedicate some time to other famous females in the genres I'm interested in, Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K LeGuin,Octavia Butler, Madeleine L'Engle and many more (yes, I found a list online). Women are so fundamentally different in the way they think from men that I'm doing myself a disservice from not reading more from their perspective.
Anyway, if you haven't read "The Yellow Wallpaper" go do it, it's pretty cool...
Chair..