No Mo' NaBloPoMo; also, on library addiction
Well, it's the last day of NaBloPoMo, and I seem to
have made it. I've proven to myself that I can write a reasonable chunk of
prose 6 days a week, and I've remembered how much I enjoy writing. The
possibility of continued writing—both personal and
fictional—intrigues and excites me. Plus, I've rediscovered my love for reading short fiction. All in all a highly successful endeavour, I'd say.
In other interestingness: apparently, I'm not the only one finishing NaBloPoMo who is a total library-o-holic. I'm not the only one who adores taking my kids to the library and taking out more books than we can possibly read or carry, then taking them out for a hot beverage (and perhaps a bagel). Here's to library addicts everywhere, including Finslippy. It's nice to be in good company.
On the topic of my library addiction, here are the books I have out right now:
- 16 Categories of desire / Douglas Glover
- 19 knives: stories / Mark Anthony Jarman
- New Orleans is Sinking / Mark Anthony Jarman
- Untitled, a novel / Ken Sparling
- Dad Says He Saw You At the Mall: a novel / Ken Sparling
- For those whom God has blessed with fingers / Ken Sparling
- 85: Best Canadian Stories / David Helwig and Sandra Martin, eds.
- Concrete Forest: the new fiction of Urban Canada / Hal Nedzviecki, ed.
- Sweet Fancy Moses, vol. 2
- Love and Hunger, an anthology of new fiction / Beverly Daurio, ed.
- Open Windows: Canadian short short stories / Kent Thompson, ed.
- Flash Fiction Forward: 80 very short stories / James Thomas and Robert Shapard, eds.
- Sudden Fiction: American short-short stories / James Thomas and Robert Shapard, eds.
- Sudden Fiction (continued): 60 new short-short stories / James Thomas and Robert Shapard, eds.