(Update post 63) How do I say how happy this makes me? Starred Booklist & PW reviews...

Perks · Nov 30, 2012

Just... wow. I'm so thrilled and had to share. Eeeeeeep!
(neat cool updates at posts 46 and 63 - wheeeeeeeee!)

Racheting up suspense is one thing, and Mason manages it masterfully... But portraying characters so well and so thoroughly, examining and explaining their motives even for murder, requires a level of skill that is rare, marking this as an astonishingly accomplished debut and Mason as a writer to watch very closely.

http://www.booklistonline.com/Three-Graves-Full-Jamie-Mason/pid=5758090

Calla Lily · Nov 30, 2012

Congratulations!

bethany · Nov 30, 2012

Congratulations! Sounds Awesome!

Ari Meermans · Nov 30, 2012

Woot! Congratulations! :snoopy:

Deleted member 42 · Nov 30, 2012

WooT!!!!!
YESSSSS!

You Go !

Renee Collins · Nov 30, 2012

Fantastic! Way to go!

LJD · Nov 30, 2012

congrats!

ZoeYork · Nov 30, 2012

Awesome possum!

Silver-Midnight · Nov 30, 2012

Congratulations!! That's so awesome.

Old Hack · Dec 1, 2012

That's a wonderful review!

Put it in your signature. Go on.

eqb · Dec 1, 2012

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:partyguy:

Perks · Dec 1, 2012

Old Hack said:
That's a wonderful review!

Put it in your signature. Go on.

Lol! I can't do that. Still, it's a pretty great review. I'm so, so pleased.

Thank you guys!

Maze Runner · Dec 1, 2012

Ah, that's so great. You sound happy, and now I'm happy

. You have my permission to celebrate tonight over way too many drinks.

Siri Kirpal · Dec 1, 2012

Sat Nam! (literally "Truth Name"--a Sikh greeting)

Wow! [Insert can-canning smilies.]

Blessings,

Siri Kirpal

Perks · Dec 1, 2012

Bebop said:
Ah, that's so great. You sound happy, and now I'm happy. You have my permission to celebrate tonight over way too many drinks.

These days, I seem to fall asleep before I can have way too many drinks.

Maze Runner · Dec 1, 2012

Perks said:
These days, I seem to fall asleep before I can have way too many drinks.

That's easy. Start earlier. No, I know what you mean. Lately, I'm up before the sun. Don't have to be, just am.

Perks · Dec 1, 2012

Sadly, it's not even that. Just anything with sedative properties seems to be walking softly and carrying an awfully big stick. Now I fall asleep just a hair past tipsy.

I used to be able to resist the Sandman...

Maze Runner · Dec 1, 2012

Then they wonder why coke is so popular. Not advocating, a dead end to be sure. Any thoughts on why people insist on self medicating? Maybe one answer was in my question. Though I think for some, myself maybe, it's more about chasing youth than it is about killing pain.

God, here you were just trying to have a nice, pleasant thread, right?

Haggis · Dec 1, 2012

I'm not at all surprised. Well done, Perks! :snoopy:

dgrintalis · Dec 1, 2012

This is so very awesome! Congratulations! :snoopy:

Perks · Dec 1, 2012

Bebop said:
Any thoughts on why people insist on self medicating? Maybe one answer was in my question. Though I think for some, myself maybe, it's more about chasing youth than it is about killing pain.

I do have thoughts on that. It has to do with attention span. Our big, busy brains have a greedy flaw: it's easy to get bored. We feel the way we feel and it's cataloged in an instant. Then we want to feel otherwise. If we're sad, we want to feel happy. If we're happy, we want to feel happier or braver. If we're brave enough, we seek to blunt it or sharpen it or whatever the next chemical might do to the status so-briefly-quo.

Simply, we're all magpies and toddlers.

God, here you were just trying to have a nice, pleasant thread, right?

Lol! I don't mind. I wanted to share the review because I'm so happy about it, but then once I'm standing there in the spotlight I called down, I feel fairly foolish. So, by all means, let's spice up this thread with something else!

Maze Runner · Dec 1, 2012

No need to feel foolish. You're happy and you want to share it. If not, it lies kind of flat, right?

You hit a nerve with that boredom thing. When I was a kid my mother used to tell me, "Not every day can be a party!" Damn, you think maybe she was right? What I meant about the chasing youth thing was, like most of us, I started partying when I was in my teens. So when I party now, just a little out of my teens, I trick myself into feeling like I did then. I work hard, and up until recently was in the best shape of my life, but I guess a part of me never has really bought the idea that every day can't be a party. If I drop dead next week, I'll let you know.

Maze Runner · Dec 1, 2012

Oh no, Perks! You've gone and left me hangin'. It's enough to drive me to drink!

Not that I wasn't heading in that general direction anyway.

Perks · Dec 1, 2012

I know it says I'm a delicate flower over there
<-------------------------------------------

But I'm thinkin' it's you.

My trouble is that I'm really not a partier (ya know, since I fall asleep 65 minutes in) I just really, really like the taste of whiskey. I wish they'd invest non-alcoholic whiskey.

And why does that thought make me vaguely ill?

Old Hack · Dec 1, 2012

Perks, you should move in with me.

Our neighbours have a house in the far reaches of Scotland, which they visit four or more times a year. Every time they go we feed their cats and chickens, and they bring us a bottle of good single malt as a thank-you present.

We don't drink whisky.

I have a cupboard half-full of the stuff.

You are more than welcome to sample it any time.

(Update post 63) How do I say how happy this makes me? Starred Booklist & PW reviews...

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