My Birthday
I took the day off on Tuesday - it was my birthday. I went to the library and got a few classics (Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers) and some books to review for my children's literature website. That's what I call fun. I also got unabridged tapes of The Poisonwood Bible. This is all intended to inspire me to write better in the future.I'm supposed to be reading... Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - but that book is frustratingly long. If it were the only book I was reading it would still be months before I finished it. I wonder how many people have read it all the way through. Its about 560,000 words. Can you imagine getting an editor to even consider reading something that long for you? My guess is that she already had good connections in the literary world at the time she presented this novel to an editor.
#
