Progress and delays...

I managed to write a good 5000 words last week but this week, due to a death in the family, I have written none :( Hopefully, I can get back on form and get into writing mode once again. I am so pleased at how the book is coming along and the story is coming together. It might just be my best yet... :)

I've just read The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins (better late than never!) and really enjoyed it. It comes out as a movie later this year so I watched the trailer and was deeply disappointed... it's set in the US and not in London and although Rachel, the main character, is British, the rest of the cast is American. Why do they do that?! I loved the gritty storyline and the railway setting of the novel. I could picture the rattling trains and the graffiti and the weeds and the tracks as I read it, typical scenes of a mundane, railway journey into London. I'll watch the film but I'm betting it's going to be rubbish compared to the book, as is usually the case.

I have just been bought and started to read A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman (thank you Kyle!). I love a nice bit of prose and this book so far is jam-packed full of it! The storyline interested me – an elderly woman waiting for her last big adventure in life. Seems all the more poignant now after the events of this week...

Rest in peace, Crystal x