Monday, January 31, 2011
BLACKWATER
I deliberately try not to read when I am writing... It's a conscious effort not to be influenced. It's important to me that my ideas not only be fresh -- they have to be mine. Even when I do research it's usually after most of my work is blocked out.
That being said -- a friend lent my husband a book before Christmas called BLACKWATER by Jeremy Scahill. New York Times book review -- "A crackling expose of the secretive military contractor Blackwater."
I am dying to dive into the book! 550 pages of real life underworld.
I remember hearing about contractors killed in combat over the years -- but had no idea what a contractor really was until I picked up BLACKWATER.
Has anyone out there read it? Your take?
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No,but,I have a friend that worked for them after his tour with the Canadian Armed forces. Haven't heard from him in a while....
ReplyDeleteOkay, that doesn't sound good.
ReplyDeleteUntil I started to write my own novel I read books at a prodigious rate - two or three full novels a week if I could get them. When I was younger my weekly trips to the library saw me return with a stack of ten to twelve books each time and they would all be finished before the end of the next week.
I stopped reading so that I could find my own voice. As time went on I was able to establish that voice and then return, gently, to reading without loosing my own identity.
I'll borrow it once you've had a chance to read it!
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