Pet Peeves and Book Recommendation

I made it to 15,000 words on my second story today! Yay! I wish I'd had a little more time over the weekend to write, but we were pretty busy. Still waiting to hear back from the agent, but I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed every second of every day : )

So do you want to hear about one of my biggest pet peeves? Well, I'm going to tell you anyway. Loud music on TV shows and movies that completely drowns out the dialogue. My fiancé and I watched the first episode of the second season of Friday Night Lights this weekend, and it had this problem. The background music was so loud that we could barely hear anything that was said during this episode and we pretty much had to guess what was going on. I don't know how the people that produce and edit these shows do not realize this is a problem. Luckily, the second episode was much better and we haven't had any more issues so far, but it was still really annoying.

Book recommendation of the day: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. I finished it over this weekend and, while it is an amazing book and a fun read, I have to warn you that it starts out really slow. There's enough mystery in the beginning to keep you reading, but I got to a point within the first eighty pages where I would have put the book down if I hadn't heard such great things about it. Luckily, the book has had so much popularity that I decided to read a little more, and I finally got into the main story around page 86. I have to say that if you are having this same problem of being bored in the beginning, please keep reading because it really is worth it. However, the last one hundred pages have the same problem as the first one hundred pages: it slows down considerably. Which on the one hand is great because it's the resolution and it's okay that it's slower, but a resolution that takes one hundred pages? That gets to be a bit much, which is why I am going to wait a while to read the other books in the series so that my brain has some time to relax. But the main point of all of this is that I am going to read the other books in the series because the writing is wonderful, the characters are lovable and memorable, and the mystery unfolds beautifully.