Fingers flying!

I love sequences that span over chapter breaks. It's so easy to keep moving with one scene. So hard to finish a sequence and start a new one. Just wrote another 1000 words, with more planned for the chapter. And that was just in an hour! (This doesn't happen every day. Some/most days I stare at the same paragraph and wonder what I'm doing.) The voice isn't there yet, but I've got the framework.

Gotta stop now--movies due at the library, and son 1 has a recorder contest at noon, so I've got to get moving. But I'm feeling encouraged! Lazy Saturday mornings where everyone is home and content are good days!

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I wish I had books. In English.

It's a chocolate chip cookie evening with kids playing and doing a reading program on the computer (daughter 1 has to learn to read in English--or at least learn her alphabet--by next school year, and she can't learn from us because there's too much German interference). What I have to do is excavate the living room after a cold day of kids playing inside. And then I have to stuff them in the bathtub and make them get cleaner than they want. And then I have to do the worst, make them go to bed. But it would be better if we all had a good book. Especially if it didn't involve slogging through a second language.

I know, the more I read in German, the more natural it will become. But I'm not there yet. Besides, I have a long list of books I want to read, and I don't have access to any of them. A few are out. Most are not. Some I'm not sure I'll like and should probably be library reads. But I wish I had the chance to browse and find out!

A Curse Dark as Gold, Elizabeth Bunce
The Off Season, Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Bewitching Season, Marissa Doyle
The Magic Thief, Sarah Prineas
The Invention of Hugh Cabret, Brian Selznick
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels (strangely, although Germany isn't far from Britain, Germans don't know Jasper Fforde at all)
Austenland, Shannon Hale
Dragonhaven, Robin McKinley
Murkmere, Patricia Elliott
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
The Host, Stephenie Meyer
Horns and Wrinkles, Joseph Helgerson
The Spellbook of Listen Taylor, Jaclyn Moriarty
The Swan Maiden, Heather Tomlinson
The Arrival, Shaun Tan
House of Many Ways, Diana Wynne Jones
Dragon Slippers, Jessica Day George
Princess Ben, Catherine Gilbert Murdock

It all means I have a lot to look forward to when I finally get back to the States. But in the meantime, I Need Words.