Reviews, Recipes, and Random Slices of Life

I could not sleep last night, not for hours. My brain was whirring. I swear I could hear it. Eventually I clambered out of bed and huddled naked behind the computer (don't worry, my hair covered any parts that might have been seen from outside) and began writing out possible titles for the novel I just finished. Ta-da! (Don't laugh too hard; you might get fired.)

*Drink Freedom
-advantages: no-one will know what the hell it's about
-disadvantages: see above, also, sounds too much like the very excellent film Cry Freedom, about the South African Black Consciousness Movement.
*Ride to/for Freedom
*Rain in the Desert
*The Reckoning
-advantage: western influence clear
-disadvantage: sounds like the final book, not the beginning
*Far Desert Reckoning
-see above
*Swamp Fever
-disadvantage: does not figure largely in the novel, though it is a key plot point
*Wet Season Serenade
-advantage: will make readers horny
-disadvantage: sounds like porn/romance
*Desert Song
*Thief's Reckoning
*Wrangling the (Desert) Sun
*The Khel
*Wet Season Sojourn
*Track (Trail?) of a Horse-Thief
*Fevered Rain
-disadvantage: sounds like an eighties band
*High Noon Rain
*High Noon in the Desert
-disadvantage: pretentious?
*High Noon Sands
-see above
*To Play a Lone Hand
*Khel's Brand
-disadvantage: might make people think of supermarkets
*Desert Brand
-see above
*Drifter/Loner in a Flash Flood
*Branded
-see above
*Desert Reins
*Reined by the Desert/Khel
*Khel's Enchantment
*Puca's Rein
-disadvantage: bad pun
*Desert Spell
*Spell of the Khel
-disadvantage: Dr. Seuss
*Fever Spell
*Rainy Season Spell
*Closer than Blood
*Thicker than Water
*Blood Song in the Desert
*Blood Rain
-disadvantage: Blade?
*Blood of the Khel
*Heart Blood of the Desert
*(The Far) Heart of the Desert
-disadvantage: Heart of Darkness, anyone?
*In the Heart of the Wet Season/Rains
*Heart of Rain
*Heart Wrangled by the Rain
-disadvantage: corny as all hell