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Deborah Hawkins, penned Debra Renée Byrd, began writing after a blank book project in elementary school and never stopped, fashioning stories based on her favorite TV shows and movies before creating more original works. She studied at the University of the Arts and Florida State University before settling down and graduating from Temple University. She now resides in her hometown of Dover, DE, where she spends most of her time at work or at church. She loves fantasies, superheroes, is a trekkie and a brown coat. She loves television and lives for Final Fantasy video games, having collected most of them. She has read a myriad of authors, and her favorite authors change whenever she finds a new book that changes her life... "When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl...well, you know the rest." -Tracey, Firefly, "The Message"

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Express Yourself: Whatcha reading?


Welcome back to Express Yourself hosted by Jackie at Bouquet of Books and Dani at Entertaining Interests! This week's question is: What are you reading?

I am currently in the home stretch of my favorite author Robert Olen Butler's The Hot Country. It is his first thriller as well as the first in his new Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, and it is set in pre-WWI Mexico, during its revolution. It's very intriguing, and Kitt Cobb is a complex journalist who reveals a big story that could also change the history of the United States!

I am also beta reading an interesting vampire fiction. I like when people have different takes on the vampire mythos (I've been using this word a lot. Am I using it right?), and this writer does a very good job of painting a picture of this supernatural world a poor supposed-to-be-in-college kid is sucked (no pun intended) into.

Stop by Jackie & Dani's pages to get the other participants, or to join this weekly bloghop! :)

5 comments:

Heather R. Holden said...

I really enjoy different takes on vampire mythos, too. (Yes, you're using that word correctly!)

As for Robert Olen Butler, don't think I've ever heard of that author before. Glad to hear this book of his is good so far!

SC Author said...

Nice! I'm reading LOTR right now.

Jackie said...

Love beta-ing .. reading fun stuff and helping someone at the same time! :)

Anonymous said...

It's great!

Anonymous said...

The Hot Country Sounds like an interesting read. I just finished reading a novel set in WWI based in Australia. It was interesting too and I added my post about it to the list here #22.