Reading Woes/Woos

Every night, I sit in front of this box to a barrage of negative messages. With multiple tabs open and something almost always playing in the background--Hulu, YouTube, Pandora--I search for something good to latch onto. It's worked a few times. Nip/Tuck. The L Word. It happens less regularly with novels, but when it does, they're popular novels. Harry Potter. Sookie Stackhouse. Twilight. The most recent was Octavia Butler's The Fledgling. It's a story about a young girl, who, after being brutalized and left for dead, reawakens to find that she's lost her memory and must relearn many things about herself and about living as an Ina--Butler's word for what we've come to know as "vampire." But Butler's vampires are different. You'll have to read the book to figure out more; it's a great little trip into Ina culture and history.

Next on the docket, at least the one I have picked up to start reading after I publish this post, is Toni Morrison's Paradise. If that doesn't take, I'm moving onto Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, a long-time favorite and one I've read probably half-a-dozen times. If that doesn't take, I'm gonna try a short story collection by either Z.Z. Packer, Dorothy Allison, or Tim O'Brien. Not sure which I'll end up reading. I also have the entire Chronicles of Narnia out here that I might get lost in.