What are you currently reading? The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop by Stephen Koch. A seamless integration of famous and classic authors’ quotes on writing with Koch’s decades of experience teaching creative writing, this short book will offer inspiration for the novice and encouragement for the experienced. It rather whimsically includes contradictory pieces of advice (e.g., write every day vs. write when inspired) to demonstrate its thesis that the manner and method of one’s writing is less important than the simple fact that one does write.
What did you recently finish reading? The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks. It was the satisfying conclusion to the Fourth Realm Trilogy. Realms were crossed. Enemies were chased and faced down. Some characters lived and some died. This series isn’t going to become a fond reread for me, but it was a highly enjoyable sci-fi action/thriller.
What do you think you’ll read next? Ironskin by Tina Connolly or Heart’s Blood by Juliet Marillier. The former comes from the library and the fact that it is a Nebula nominee this year; the latter comes from a 20% off coupon at Barnes & Noble and the fact that I really liked Wildwood Dancing, which I read in January 2011.
On Audiobook. I finally finished the eternal Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and am delighted to move on to The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. I am planning to ILL all the audiobooks in the four-book Tiffany Aching Discworld sub-series: The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, and I Shall Wear Midnight.
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