Hitting the Books

…so are the days of November. Well, NaNoWriMo is over. Congrats to all of you who reached your goal. Congrats to all of you who actually got any writing done. I think I managed a whopping 2000 words. I shan’t gripe about all the things that suddenly snowballed onto me (Golden Heart, Punkin, new office, Thanksgiving). Perhaps a petition to move NaNoWriMo to another month? One not so chock full of holiday preparations. Something like August. Nothing happens in August. Except back to school, but that’s a good thing, yes?

But I did get started on another book in preparation for NaNoWriMo, so hopefully I will be a good girl and keep writing on it. Or on the 4 other books I couldn’t do for NNWM because I’d already started them. Or something else totally. Just so long as I keep writing, right? We’re not going anywhere for Christmas, so at least that’s not an issue.

The big excitement here is the coming of Narnia to the big screen. Unfortunately I won’t be going opening night, but I wanted to wait until I could see it with my dad. Dad read all the books to me back 25+ years ago. It’s his fault I’m fascinated with fantasy (he got me started on Lord of the Rings too), and have a thing for dryads. I read through the Official Illustrated Movie Companion last night, and it looks good. Real good. Possibly better than LOTR (but then again, LWW is a much much smaller book–Peter Jackson had to cut things from the books just to get them to fit, though I’m still not happy that he left out the Scouring of the Shire. Still, the movies were superb, so I guess I shouldn’t complain about that either. At least we’ve got something way better than the “where’s there’s a whip, there’s a way” cartoon version.).

And hopefully now I’ll get a chance to finish New Spring and read Knife of Dreams and write up a review on them. Can’t remember the last time I read for reviewing, not research. But then again, I can’t remember most of what I did last week, so that’s nothing out of the ordinary. Diaper brain is hard to recover from.

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