Aurora Dimitre's Books and Rambling

 

 

 

 

 So, I keep all of my current writing projects on this little black flash drive. Sometimes, as I am human, I forget this flash drive somewhere and then I can't work on stuff. Normally, this means I forget this flash drive at home and so I'm at school, where I have a bunch of other flash drives, and then what do I do? I start a new Aughts Boys book.  This year, I have written books 12-14 on first draft. I am currently working on 15. That's Benji Holmes, Jack Williams, Brodie Mohren, and Jackson Falvey, for those of us who have read the books, of which I know there are few. The problem comes when I already have a first draft running and I forget my flash drive, because then what happens? I start a new one and immediately lose interest in the last one.  But I'm having fun. This Aughts Boys series is like, looking to never end or something, because I keep creating side characters that I want to have their own books, but that's fine? You don't have to read it in orde...

 

 Earlier this year, but not at the very beginning of the year, I decided I wanted an easier way to tell what my favorite book was. I spent about ten years saying it was The Long Walk , and now I say it's Beartown , and maybe it's just because I like spreadsheets but now I have a spreadsheet. It was, for a while, a word doc, but last night I transferred it over to a spreadsheet so I can tell easier if I'm re-reading or not.  Not that I don't know if I've re-read books or not, because I do, but it's just telling if I'm re-reading since the spreadsheet began . According to this spreadsheet, my top ten favorite books are as follows:  1. Beartown by Fredrik Backman 2. The Stand by Stephen King 3. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 4. Okay for Now by Gary D Schmidt 5. Germinal by Emile Zola 6. Theme Music by T Marie Vandelly 7. The Binding by Bridget Collins 8. The Dark Half by Stephen King 9. Pet Sematary by Stephen King 10. Babel by RF Kuang This does...