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Blagged from so many; most recently elmyraemilie , cross_stitchery and davidbrider 

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here (I find that hard to believe but there you go). Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. I'm adding; underline those that are defo on your 'to read' list'. Here we go...
( Because I am the very Mistress of Prevarication... )

And now I genuinely have to turn off the emails and get down to some work. After coffee. And Just a MInute...

And ETA (because I'm drinking coffee, listening to Just a Minute *G*) why is The Five People You Meet In Heaven in there (a rather so-so book imo) and not the infinitely beautiful and superior History of Love by Nicole Kraus? Two books  linked in no way whatsoever except that I read them at the same time but the one is so much better than the other!

This is a puzzling list. I see no reason for many of their choices at all.

 

I'll bet y'all can't wait.

Work has been ongoing. The novel Entanglement, especially is going very well. Not a lot more in the way of fresh wordage, but a lot of progress on the story and motivation and stuff like that.

I spent a whole day working on one character, Jess; working through each phase of her story from the moment the protagonist meets her until her disappearance and in so doing, I found not only the ending, but the whole meaning of the story!

It's hard to describe because it's a complicated tale but, brief as I can - Originally Jess was the crux of the story - she was the reason everything goes wrong for me 'hero' (he's not very heroic. *g*) but then, scrapped that and she just became the consequence of events going awry - then I realised she was far more important - not the reason for what happens, but the meaning...

I'm not explaining it well. Take it from me that what I discovered as I worked through these chapters was crucial and has made me happy. *G*

As for the the ending, I already had it, I worked it out a few weeks ago, but not the reason for it. It's quite a sad ending on the surface, and rather cruel to two important characters and I couldn't work out why - then I realised that this character Jess is so important - she gives the whole thing meaning and makes the end, far from sad and downbeat, actually makes it a hopeful and positive thing.

Anyway, word counts are as follows - Entanglement; coming on well

52,812 / 200,000 (26.4%)

My TS fic Blue has suffered as a consequence with only half a chapter finished this week, but now the novel is running on clean, smooth rails, I'm expecting to catch up this week.

83,257 / 142,000 (58.6%)

Such was my writerly week my darlings. I hope yours has been good to you, too. XXX