Friday Reads 10.11.24
October is always my cruelest month. This year, it’s been mean to everybody!
I say “cruel” when I should really just be saying “busy,” but you know how much I despise that word. Plus, cruel is so much more dramatic for the spooky season! Rude works, too, considering the hurricanes and fires. My family had two houses in the path of Milton, and it looks like both have survived with minimal damage and flooding, so perhaps I should just say I’m grateful.
Grateful…and yes, busy. I’ve been a little stressy this week. Travel, moving, and hurricanes aside…I'm juggling for the next few weeks. Two deadlines, two books to get into production, prep for multiple A WORD ON WORDS tapings, a new story idea brewing (can I tell you how much I’m using my own 22 Steps posts to build the synopsis?), and a quick upcoming appearance at Southern Festival hosting Lisa Unger’s event. And let’s not forget the release of ”O Murder Night” in the Death Comes at Christmas anthology the 22nd, and all the upcoming touring for A VERY BAD THING.
Plus, I’ve been loving the fabulous outpouring of support for A VERY BAD THING in First Reads—you made the book a bestseller immediately, and it’s stayed in the top five for two weeks now. THANK YOU! I can’t tell you how exciting and, yes, gratifying it’s been.
We got my parents all packed up and moved out, too. I wrote a short piece about the influence their bookshelves had on me growing up, in case you’re interested.
All this to say, I haven’t done a ton of reading this week. In between the wall-to-wall hurricane coverage, I have been watching some truly spectacular TV for distraction. THE PERFECT COUPLE is top of the list (OMG, I am in love with this messy family; I bought the book and will read it once I’m done watching), as well as THE MAYFAIR WITCHES (a superb adaptation that I thought was going to be scarier than it is) and SLOW HORSES Season 4 (Mick Herron blows the spy novel out of the water with these books, and the show just keeps getting better), and the Dodgers are in the playoffs…
Quiet time ahead with some books this weekend, I hope.
That’s it from me, short and sweet. How about you? Reading anything fabulous this weekend? And were you impacted by Milton? Let us know if you need help!
