Julia Barrett's World

Our Treasure Trove.

Mia and I spent three hours on Rodeo Beach, picking through tiny pebbles, searching for semi-precious stones. We found, among other things, jade, carnelian, shark teeth, polished beach glass…I don’t know the identity of most of the stones. Some are quartz. She took a bag home with her as souvenirs.

Rodeo Beach is my favorite beach in the area, not because it’s all warm and sunny and you can swim. This is not Los Angeles. The water is icy, the waves rough, the currents, rip tides and undertow make swimming or surfing dangerous at best. Besides, the waters off Rodeo Beach are part of the Great White Triangle. Scary!

Nah, we just had fun, sifting through mounds of pebbles, waiting for that one bright and shining little tiny translucent treasure to pop up out of the blue.

So…why do I enjoy reading Mia’s m/m romances? The reading experience is a little like finding that one round rose-red carnelian. Her stories give me the same little jolt of excitement

I’m not an m/m of reader, yet the men in Mia’s romances appeal to me. They tug at my heart in the same way Ennis Del Mar did in Brokeback Mountain. I want them for myself.

Mia’s men are not the only treasure. Mia, herself, is precious. She’s a joy to be with - read her books! In fact, read more books in general. Books are good for you!

News: Over the next week, I’ll be slaving over edits - because you all want books three and four of Daughters of Persephone to be released on September 8 and believe me, so do I! I’ll post as often as I can.

I’m still over at Book Lovers Inc. - head on over! You can win a copy of Daughters of Persephone!

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The List

Favorite Book - too many to name just one, but I have a tradition…every year I reread Dune, by Frank Herbert, Shogun, by James Clavell, Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, and Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. I’m currently into nonfiction, biographies and George R.R. Martin’s science fiction series - A Game of Thrones. I must say, my favorite morality play - I mean book, is East of Eden, by John Steinbeck.

Favorite Movie - McCabe and Mrs. Miller, starring Warren Beaty and Julie Christie and directed by Robert Altman. But I love the Lord of the Rings trilogy too. The movie that left me sobbing (besides Bambi) - Dead Man Waling with Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, directed by Tim Robbins.

Favorite sports movie - Bull Durham.

Favorite military movie - The Great Santini.

Favorite cowboy movie - Brokeback Mountain…second favorite- The Magnificent Seven - Yul Brynner was so sexy as a bald guy!

Favorite Old Movies - lots! The Wizard of Oz, All About Eve, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, anything with Marilyn Monroe in it..Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story and The Lion in Winter.

Favorite off-beat movies - Frequency, Enemy of the State, Parenthood, A River Runs Through It, Bend It Like Beckham, especially the Indian dancing part, Die Hard, The Terminator.

Favorite food - milk chocolate, after that…vegetarian spicy stuff - love me some curries!

Tomorrow - Why do I write and maybe what do I write…See ya!

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