The Time Will Come by C.J. Skuse + Giveaway

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The Time Will Come - 

Every Thursday l am going to list a book which l really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! 

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Please Welcome C.J. Skuse

Author Of:

Pretty Bad Things

Rockaholic

So Jodie said ‘Pick a book you own that you’ve left on your shelf for ages unread and talk a little about why you haven’t read it yet.’ But there were SOOOO many contenders for this, I’m embarrassed to say. They sit on my bookshelves glaring at me right now, disapproval oozing from their spines. ‘Why don’t you stop dicking about with that Kindle and pick us up?’ they sneer. But I don’t. And here’s why... 

I tend to treat buying books like I’m saving lives. Like I’m afraid the bookshop or the Amazon warehouse is going to go up in flames if I don’t immediately rescue them and take them home and stroke them (they like that) and keep them safe on my bookshelves. This does mean that while I have potentially saved quite a few paper lives in my time, some of them have gone unread and unnoticed for many moons. SO many comics and graphic novels have gone this way, largely because Forbidden Planet had a hella good sale on and I went to a Comic Con and wanted to look like just one of the geeks (see Fables 11 onwards, China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun and Hack Slash Omnibus 2).
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is also sitting, looking at me with sad little blue eyes, wondering if it’s ever going to get picked up. My excuse for this one is that I know what happens in the end cos I walked in when the film was on and saw the last few scenes. So that makes me not want to read it cos I don’t like sad endings. I’m almost phobic about it. 

Sarah Dessen’s Just Listen is another victim. I bought this in a Target in Chicago in 2009. I’m so petrified that this book is going to have an unhappy or unsatisfying ending, I can’t bring myself to read it. I need to trust this author before I let her take me down that road. That’s the thing about the way I read – an author can put me through whatever meltdowns and tragedies he or she wants to, I’ll roll with them all, but ultimately if they give me an unsatisfactory ending or they kill off one of my favourite characters, or they make the hot boy soul mate of the main character just disappear for an entire book (I direct my cross face at YOU Ms Stephenie Meyer) I’ll never forgive them for it. A lot of award winning novels do this and it’s probably why I’ll never write an award-winner; killing characters or even just banishing them might be the honourable, brave or fitting thing to do for the plot and I praise authors who can do it, but for me it’s like hurting members of my own family. There’s enough grief in my real life without offing my imaginary friends too!
So in short, I’m an absolute coward. I live in fear of investing myself in an author’s world until I completely trust them not to leave me stranded in it. Disappointing endings that leave you on a cliff face or books in which one of your favourite characters is brutally done away with in an instant, have been known to send me into quite a tantrum (JK Rowling and Suzanne Collins I wag an accusatory finger at you both as I say this).
It’s a poor excuse – I should just suck it up I guess and get the things read – but I know what I like and that’s how I try to write too. Like a coward. Or rather like a person who has known true heartache and wants to protect her dear and treasured readers from that. Nah, I really am just a cowards.Thank you C.J. for an awesome guest post, I just love your sense of humour and it really shows in your books! I hope you get round to some of them =)

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1st November 2011

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