Doug Walsh > Recent Status Updates

So, it looks like GR did away with progress updates? Interesting. Anyway, I'm 45% through The Crossing and have really cooled on it. Boyd, the younger brother, is quite annoying and I can scarcely pinpoint what the character's motivations or goals are at this point.

Such a jarringly different writing style from everything else I've read. Really off-putting at first, and required lots of flipping back and forth to try and figure out who the characters on the page were (decoding father vs son around page 30 was tough), but I'm digging it now.

Wonderful.

The first 50% of this book was hot liquid gold. It's been a steady decline into tedium since. I'll finish it because we know from the opening Humbert gets arrested (no spoilers, please) and there's mention of a murder (and a gun) but I find my mind wandering more and more with every subsequent scene.

An interesting historical fiction blending a 1970s Hollywood writer fighting to track down a famed WWII philosopher who may have been a member of the resistance -- and his mother.

Really informative (and reassuring) book for authors to read about the process, though the number of interviews may be longer than necessary. Many of their responses to the questions feel repetitive at this point in the book.

Oddly enough, as a former photography enthusiast, I'm finding the chapter on camera tech to be the least interesting.