When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out, I lived in Korea. There is a fourteen hour time difference between Seoul and Omaha. I went to the book store on the day it was released, like when the book store opened and bought my copy. I started to read it on the bus ride home. When I got to my apartment, I read it that day plus the day after. I was determined to be the first in my family to have finished the book. I ordered take out from the restaurant on the first floor of my apartment building and snacked on stuff I already had. The book came out on a Saturday, which is unusual because books are normally released on a Tuesday. I had no contact with the rest of the world, well accept for when I skyped my mother on our weekly calls. I read the 700+ page book in two days. And that was all I did that weekend. When I finished book, I couldn't actually see that well, like everything was a blur for the two days that followed. It was the last time I read a large book within the span of days. I never read that book again. And besides the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson, probably one of the last large books that I read and not listened to on audio.
Song mood: Mysterious Ways by U2. Currently I’m listening to The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan. I’ve listened to a couple of novellas that she wrote where her detective Cormac Reilly briefly shows up in and liked them. This is the first book with her star detective. Between McTiernan and Trevor on who writes better suspense, I would say hands down McTiernan. A person who writes mysteries as a genre follow a set of conventions so that the reader isn’t in a state of confusion. One great example is putting dates before each section or series of sections. Literary writers don’t follow conventions and the confusion at times come from the writing. Where I say, let the characters mislead the reader not the writing itself. I am enjoying The Ruin . It’s nice to get back to a solid mystery. I continue to walk at the lake. Although, it’s a modified path where I get around 2.5 miles instead 4 miles. I still need to figure out what to do for exercise in the winter. I want to get a rowing m
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