{"id":8818,"date":"2016-05-17T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=8818"},"modified":"2016-05-15T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T22:42:21","slug":"listify-life-the-top-3-books-in-my-to-be-read-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/listify-life-the-top-3-books-in-my-to-be-read-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"Listify Life &#8211; The Top 3 Books in My To Be Read Pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually have a mix of books on the go. While I write contemporary romance, I don&#8217;t have a CR on my TBR pile right now because I&#8217;m waiting for a fave author&#8217;s book to release before I get my next mass market delivery. I like to read outside of genre a lot, and I like to read books on craft of writing, plus I&#8217;ve gotten back into reading some biographies, which I used to read all the time when I was younger.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Listify_TBR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8819\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Listify_TBR.jpg\" alt=\"Listify_TBR\" width=\"350\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Listify_TBR.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Listify_TBR-150x141.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Listify_TBR-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just finished <strong>UNSAID<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilabramsonauthor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Abramson<\/a>. There&#8217;s a chimpanzee named Cindy in the story. My BFF lent me this book last week while she was in town. In exchange, she&#8217;s supposed to read <strong>MY FEARFUL SYMMETRY<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audreyniffenegger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Audrey Niffenegger<\/a>, which I loved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNSAID<\/strong> is a great story if you&#8217;re looking for something out of the ordinary. I would read more from Mr. Abramson (it looks like he&#8217;ll have a new release this summer).<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Be Read, Fiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>THE SEVEN SISTERS<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucindariley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lucinda Riley<\/a>. I have never read this author. I am pretty sure my daughter-in-law left this book at the house before she and my son returned to Shanghai for another year of work. So I better get reading, in case she wants it back. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><strong>COLD, COLD HEART<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/tamihoag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tami Hoag<\/a>. I&#8217;ll either read that or <strong>THE BONE GARDEN<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tessgerritsen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tess Gerritsen<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t read Hoag in a very long time, but saw CCH in the drugstore so picked it up awhile ago. Plenty of folks have recommended Gerritsen. I haven&#8217;t read her before, so I&#8217;m eager to get to <strong>THE BONE GARDEN<\/strong>. Which of these two I choose to read actually comes down to how I feel about the books when I hold them in my hands when the time comes to choose. Don&#8217;t ask. Yes, it&#8217;s weird. So what?<\/li>\n<li><strong>AVENUE OF MYSTERIES<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/john-irving.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Irving<\/a>. Irving is an auto-buy for me, and this one has been &#8220;gelling&#8221; on my nightstand for awhile now (books need to sit on my nightstand or in the drawer for an undetermined amount of time before they &#8220;gel&#8221; enough for me to read\u00a0them). Don&#8217;t ask. Yes, it&#8217;s weird. So what?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oooh, interesting note, I attended a reading of John Irving&#8217;s on Granville Island in Vancouver with my BFF many moons ago. He read from <strong>A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY<\/strong>, one of my favorite of his books, and he signed my copy (the poor guy was swamped by folks after the reading, swarming around him; it was crazy; yes, I was one). I&#8217;ve been collecting his novels in \u00a0hardcover since <strong>THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recently Finished:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE HEART GOES LAST<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/margaretatwood.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Atwood<\/a>, another of my auto-buys and my all-time favorite author, although sometimes she writes a book I don&#8217;t like (don&#8217;t ask me where she gets the nerve). Loved it! Ms. Atwood, I truly regret that I was too hung over to attend your reading of <strong>BODILY HARM<\/strong> at the University of Victoria in the 1980s. I meant to bring my copy and get your autograph. I think I purposely drank too much the night before because you&#8217;re one of my idols and I was just too shy to attend the reading. Yeah, it sucks I&#8217;m writing you from\u00a0my blog and you&#8217;ll never see this note, but I just wanted you to know I regret my actions, but at the time I thought I could have a fun night out and still make it to the reading. Apologies.<\/p>\n<p>I have also been collecting Ms. Atwood&#8217;s novels and short stories in hardcover since <strong>BODILY HARM<\/strong>. I have her novels from before BH in paperback.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Be Read, Craft of Writing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ROMANCING THE BEAT: STORY STRUCTURE FOR ROMANCE NOVELS<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/gwenhayes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gwen Hayes<\/a>. A friend mentioned this book on Facebook the other day, and Gwen belongs to Romance Divas, an online romance writers forum I also belong to, so I bought a copy for my Kindle and can&#8217;t wait to dig into it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>WIRED FOR STORY: THE WRITER&#8217;S GUIDE TO USING BRAIN SCIENCE TO HOOK READERS FROM THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredforstory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Cron<\/a>. This book has been on my TBR pile for a very long time. I&#8217;m sort of saving it for when I begin brainstorming the next book on my <strong>To Be Written<\/strong> pile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To Be Read, Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>THE DUCHESS<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dramandaforeman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Foreman<\/a>. My mom picked up this book without realizing it was a biography, so she passed it along. A few years ago, a movie with Keira Knightly came out called The Duchess, based at least in part on this biography, so I&#8217;ll give it a whirl.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s on your To Be Read pile?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually have a mix of books on the go. While I write contemporary romance, I don&#8217;t have a CR on my TBR pile right now because I&#8217;m waiting for a fave author&#8217;s book to release before I get my next mass market delivery. I like to read outside of genre a lot, and I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/listify-life-the-top-3-books-in-my-to-be-read-pile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Listify Life &#8211; The Top 3 Books in My To Be Read Pile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,58,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-listifylife","category-stuff-about-me","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8823,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions\/8823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}