Meandering.

I know I have to start packing up...

But where do I start?

I'm Reading Skeletons at The Feast

Yeah, right. I gotta finish this book. Really.
The book is a fiction novel about WWII based on a WWII survivor's diary. I met the author, Chris Bohjalian, last week. He talked for EXACTLY an hour (sometimes it amazes me how the spinning clock controls our daily lives) about his book. Chris won the New England Book Award in 2002, and his novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller, a selection of Oprah's Book Club, a Publishers Weekly "Best Book," and a New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick. His work has been translated into 25 languages and has sold over three and a half million copies. Twice his books have become movies ("Midwives" and "Past the Bleachers").

(yeah...that's the author in the middle)

He told us how, in college, he really wanted to be in a creative writing class but his lecturer rejected him and told him to be a banker instead. And how his works had been rejected hundreds of times.
Oh, and I quoted this from him who quoted from somebody else, I can't remember, "The only way an author publishes his work is when he stops editing."

My creative writing class and I went to his book talk (as you can see, we're all holding his book). It was a great experience (he signed my book. yay.). He's the first American author that I met.
I gotta finish this book NOW.