July 22, 2007
Why I Don’t Drink Coffee Past 10:30 PM
Because I don’t fall asleep until 4:30 the following morning.
DS is visiting my mother this weekend, so last night DH and I went out for dinner. We enjoyed ourselves immensely. When we got home, DH made coffee and we sat out back playing backgammon until 1am. Once we went to bed, I wound up reading until it was nearly light out. My book (Bag of Bones, Stephen King) had hit the climax and I couldn’t put it down until I reached the end. With the coffee keeping me from feeling drowsy, it was a hopeless (and sleepless) combination.
This makes two books in a row that not only made it to my keeper shelf, but that I would also call great. So what–according to me–differentiates a great book from a good book? A great book not only has me turning the pages, racing towards the end because I just have to see what happens next and how it all turns out, but when I do reach the end, I’m a little sad it’s over. A little sad to say goodbye to characters who had become like friends over the course of the story.
As a writer, this what I truly aspire to create–stories readers can’t put down and are sad to see end.
Oh, and the second book I read that I thought was great…Prince of Darkness by Barbara Michaels. An old contemporary gothic written in 1969. (I think.) I read it in two days. Loved it.
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