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Eragon - CHECK!

Eldest - CHECK!

Neverwhere - CHECK!

The Pirates in an adventure with Ahab - CHECK!

Now the delicate question of what I read next arises. Because I only have 3 good days of reading this week before I'm off to Miami for the weekend. And the only reading I'll do once I get there will be the drink menus. Even then I'll probably just shmooze the bartenders to give me something special instead of actually doing the reading. The the 3 good days of reading I have early this week will probably be spent packing, doing laundry, getting the cameras ready, and deciding if I should bring 7 or 8 pairs of shoes.

Then I get back from Florida and it's 3 days of more laundry, cleaning, detoxing before Raych is in town. So I can pretty much guarantee that after Tuesday I'll read all of *nothing* for the next 2 weeks besides whatever gets done on the plane.

So do I begin the book I'm DYING to read, which is approximately 100 lbs., 1000 pages of small print, marketed as a door-stop double, and most certainly won't get finished before November 1st... or do I pick something small, that can easily fit in my bag, that WILL get finished before November 1st? But how can I forsake Diana Gabaldon for... for... for... Neil Gaiman again? I mean, TWO NEIL GAIMON books and I still won't have popped open her latest. Dearest me.

Shit.

I'm sorry Diana but it's all I can do to keep myself from bringing you to Miami. Few people know this but I'm fastidious about the care of my books. I like them to look like they haven't been read when I'm finished with them. Fresh looking, fresh smelling, perfectly perfect and uncreased... and if you come to Miami with me there will be sand all up 'n in your shit.

I suppose it's been decided you will be my "read" while I'm writing my novel. And that's quite an honor if I do say so myself.

(No comments about how I need a life will be tolerated. Not even for a moment. A) Steve's worse than a hermetic librarian. B) Keira's already got the penthouse suite at rehab reserved. C) Raych is initiating intervention in T-2 weeks. And D) You'll have to catch me in Miami first.)