Homestead Mama | 
01 16th, 2008| 
I really enjoy James Michener books – and I really enjoy reading as much as I can when I am on vacation. I don’t know why it did not occur to me to get the James Michener book “Mexico” before leaving on our trek through Mexico – but I didn’t.
So, I went to Amazon to add the book to my “wish list” so that I can order it when I get home…. better late then never, right? And I stumbled across a second book that I just can’t do without – “My Lost Mexico”
From the description on Amazon.com:
In this intermittently interesting portrait of a writer’s mind at work, Michener reconstructs the birth of his recently published novel Mexico , which he had originally abandoned in 1961. He blames the novel’s derailment on a mocking editorial suggestion by Bennett Cerf, then his publisher at Random House, which caused him to lose control of the story’s diverse strands. Misplaced for three decades, the lost manuscript turned up in 1991 and Michener completed the multigenerational saga centering on a three-day bullfighting festival. Discussing the “colossal” writer’s blocks he has faced over the years, Michener offers advice to aspiring writers as he describes his many trips to Mexico, divulges his sources of inspiration and relives the writing of Mexico with the aid of reproduced journal pages, workbook entries and photographs.
As an aspiring writer – I can’t wait to read this account.
