55 Pages!

I've finished entering all of the corrections from my manuscript into my Microsoft Word document and I've cut a total of 55 pages. 55 pages! It feels like 55 lbs. (I wish.)

So, now I'm going to take a break from the book after essentially reading it through twice. I'll finish reading a book I started a while ago and put on hold to edit my book and read two others that stole my attention away.

Yesterday, I finished reading "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. I loved, loved, loved it, maybe even more than I loved "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen. If you haven't read Guernsey, go out and buy it now. I thought the format written as letters between several people would annoy me, but it was a really interesting way to tell a story about World War II without making it a manly war story or a sappy love story. It made me laugh and cry and want to become a member of the Society, just so I could be around the characters in that book.

Before that, I read "One Day" by David Nicholls. I also loved that book, not as much as Guernsey, but it was a good book. They both, Guernsey especially, were easy reads. That's important when you're like me and frequently interrupted by a 4-year-old and a husband with questions related to the 4-year-old.

I'll read through my book one more time before I write a cover letter and send it to some agents. But, before I do that, I'm going to finish reading "Best Friends Forever" by Jennifer Weiner. She's long been one of my favorite chick-lit writers, but her first few books were more interesting than her last few books. I've been distracted from finishing Best Friends a couple of times now, but I need to clear my head a bit before I read my book one more time, so I'll give Weiner's book one more shot.

It's funny how I've been so much happier reading since I've stopped watching TV. Nothing there holds my interest as much as a good book anymore.