I finished NaNo, though the book isn't finished. Sometimes I felt like I could have written more, but then I figure 50k is still a bajillion words, really.
Continuing my ghost book kick, I finished on 7 books for the month. I read
The Mystery at Kickingbird Lake (at, not of, like I said before) and then the fifth book in the series,
The Mystery of the Disappearing Dogs.
Kickingbird Lake is the one I owned as a child, so it's falling apart and very tattered;
Dogs I got when I was older and I wanted to fill out the series a little, so it's much shinier. Once I got used to the style, I had fun. It's very much nostalgia with those ones though. I did get angry at the ending of
Dogs, when the 'antagonist' was "punished" (in quotes in the book itself) with something he loved. He abducted a person at the end as well as two dogs and would have killed at least one of them if not for the ghosts!
Ahem. I shouldn't read kids ghosts/adventure books if I want real world logic, I suppose
Then I moved on to
High Spirits by Tony Foster and am halfway through number two,
Castle Spirits. I have all four available in the series and they are fun, but definitely in the above ghosts/adventure category. Like castles that have sunk into the ground, yet remain whole without any damage to the structure and full of furniture and treasure and everything. And kids who can be forgiven for their lack of scientific knowledge, but when you have the museum directors going oh my goodness, how would something historical be underground, well... The editing is lacking, especially in the later books as well, and from the first book to the second, the writing got, uh, more flowery, shall we say? Especially for a kids book. For example: "Even that didn't go too smoothly and their lengthy deliberations were fraught with doubts and uncertainties."
Despite how it sounds, I really do enjoy them though!
I forgot to write baking on my goal list, but I baked! Something the recipe called red velvet whoopy dogs, which, what? I call them red velvet cake cookies, and they turned out nicely. I made them too big, but that's fixable. Two of my D&D players weren't touching them, and I thought they must be terrible, but it turned out they hadn't ever had red velvet because red cake scared them, and when they tried them, there was a surprised "This is good!" from both.
1. NaNoWriMo.
50k.
2. Read five books.
7/5
3. Baked! Red velvet cake cookies