Shameless Promotion of Talented Friend's Video and Website

Head over to Dave's and check out his submission for the 2009 Wild West Film Fest. As always, it's sure to entertain. You know you want to.

Turning Another Year Older

Birthdays are weird.
For one whole day you get gifts and well-wishes and attention at work, then things go back to normal. For one day you are reminded that you are getting older and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Sure, you can pause your age at a particular number and pretend to be, say 29, but eventually people can see right through that. My mom for years looked younger than her age, and apparently I inherited that gene. Fortunately so did my husband, but from his parents, not from my mom because that would just be wrong.
Most days I mentally feel ten years younger, but then my body starts calling me back to reality and reminding me that I am so not in my twenties anymore. Do you know how weird that is?

What Now?

Lately I've been wrapped up in reading. A lot.
In the past two weeks I've read; Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, sequel to The Hunger Games. Coming out in September.
Blood Memory by Greg Iles. Intense.
Finger-Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich. Better than Fourteen, but still can't hold a candle to the first nine books. I grow weary of the Morelli-Ranger dilemma, in this one Stephanie is broken-up with Morelli leading to a lot of sleeping with Ranger, but there was no sex. Plus, there was a lot of food, burps and farts.
23 Hours by David Wellington, the fourth in his Vampire series. I really enjoy this series. He is moving on to do a werewolf series. Ehhh.
Due to inventory at work I had to return Fordlandia without cracking it, but I still want to read it.
Chris got me three books for my birthday, so those are mocking me from my nightstand.
Mom sent me a vegetarian cookbook full of yummy color pictures begging me to dirty up my kitchen.

We spent the fourth trying to sooth the kitties due to booming fireworks outside. We watched Jurassic Park on DVD and tried to stay cool.

The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson

A wickedly dark horror of a novel about damaged individuals, religion, and what happens when the two are blended together, The Open Curtain takes the reader on a psychological thriller ride. Evenson, a former Mormon and former BYU professor, gets into some meaty subject matter, such as ritual murder, family secrets, Blood Atonement, Mormon history, suicide, and teenage angst.
Brian Evenson is my new favorite horror writer. I devoured The Open Curtain and now look forward to sinking my teeth in his other work. Read a few of his interviews about The Open Curtain here and here.