Hot!

I feel like we are living just outside the gates of hell, if there were such a thing as hell.  If there is a hell, I am currently residing there.  In other words,  WTF is up with this hot, humid weather?  I know it's July but this is ridiculous with no end in sight.  Ah well, it's a good week to be on Study Leave (and a good week to be recovering from GA) so I can lounge around in the AC reading instead of going out into the inferno.  And I can hang with Kayla, who is recovering amazingly well and is off her pain meds.  Tests all came back negative, so still no clue why she keeps getting bladder infections and had bladder stones -- but the good news is no cancer (they did a biopsy while in there).


So I hang with Kayla and read for the most part, and occasionally post here or on Facebook.  In addition to reading the aforementioned Armstrong book about The Case for God, I am also finishing a novel for a book group which I am enjoying more than I expected.  Haven't finished it yet (have a few more days) but do like the story and the writing.  Here is the book with a cover different from the copy I have, but I can't find the cover I have online.  It's called The Wishbones.


I took a Facebook quiz thing today (well, it wasn't on Facebook, it was an offline site, but I found it on Facebook) where you can copy/paste a sample of your writing and find out who you write like.  I pasted a 1000 word short story and came up as Stephen King.  I pasted a blog entry from this blog and was told I write like David Wallace Foster.  I LOVE Stephen King novels, so it's no wonder my writing mirrors his (though without the horror).  He's a phenomenal writer, and I'd love to sit down and have drinks and dinner with him sometime.   

I never heard of David Wallace Foster, so I googled him and found out he hung himself two years ago at the age of 46, which is just so sad. Haven't read anything of his but maybe I will.  He wrote Infinite Jest, as well as some short story collections and some non-fiction.  Anyone out there read him? If so, any recommendations?  So sad that he took his own life. So young.


Here's the link if you to find out who you write like: http://iwl.me/

Anyway, back to reading for me after this brief respite.  Hope you are all staying cool!