So far, so good

I finished The Beach yesterday. I read it in only a few days. I purchased it at a garage sale and I was thrilled because I'd seen bits of the movie (starring Leonardo DiCaprio) on the Oxygen Network, but never the beginning. So I was curious. And the price was right.

I didn't expect to be pulled into the story so quickly and completely, but I did. I have quite a few books waiting to be read that are author's "first novels." This was Alex Garland's first novel, and the book I read prior to this (Ellen Foster) was also a "first novel."

And the book I'm reading now, A Severe Mercy is also a "first" book, though it's not fiction. But every once in awhile, you have to lift your head out of the pool of fiction and read something else.

Then, I'll dive back into a novel, probably another "first novel," in keeping with my spontaneous theme.