And … um … well, several more of the same. that somebody in the house has already read but didn’t want to throw away or donate to the library, so there it is for whoever might be interested.
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In the office bathroom, there’s a pile of historical (mostly) reference books, including whichever of the Firefox books I’m finding useful at the moment, plus my brand-new (used) copy of “The World Almanac of the American Revolution” (my original copy broke into several pieces, having been used throughout the writing of the last four or five novels), and an intriguing thing called “How to Read Water” (an excellent skill to have), plus an enormous, deliciously illustrated book called “Lichens.” Down by the girls’ wing (all our kids are long since grown, but they come back for visits) is a small bookshelf that’s stacked (the shelves being full of games like Monopoly and something in a black box with a vulgar name that I don’t have time to go look at just now) with mostly popular fiction - chick-lit, fantasy, murder mysteries, biographies, etc. The TBR pile (well, one of them) is over there, and has everything in it from sf/f and history to hard-core crime and memoirs - to say nothing of “Love Drunk Cowboy,” by Carolyn Brown, which I’m taking with me to Europe on Thursday. What is this strange term, “organize”…? Basically, it’s management by piles. (In all fairness, mine disturbs a few people, too.) That said, I do avoid books in which terrible things happen to children (not counting autobiographies of people who survived terrible things happening to them when they were children those are fascinating) - and there’s a very small group of authors whose books I won’t read because the mind I sense behind them disturbs me. My husband urged me to put a bottle of Krug on the counter this year and see what happens.) Some alert soul noticed this, and the company promptly sent me a nice Tabasco caddy, with six different forms of the sauce. So simple - but do people make their own at home? No, so why not? And who are these McIlhennys and how did they get this thing started? (I posted a Thanksgiving photo last year - featuring our table set for 10, with clean, empty dishes (as everyone stayed home, isolating during the pandemic) - but with a glimpse of the kitchen counter, on which was a Tabasco bottle. You know what’s in Tabasco? Peppers (puréed, we assume), vinegar and water. I will honestly read anything, including the label on the Tabasco bottle if there’s nothing else. Which genres do you especially enjoy reading? And which do you avoid? On the other hand, I totally consider laughter to be an important emotion.
Even the lightest of escape fiction needs to have an intrinsic sense of structure, self-awareness and intelligence. I kind of think a good book should do both. Still, emotion that doesn’t ring true will kill a book for me.ĭo you prefer books that reach you emotionally, or intellectually? Granted, an author is (more or less by definition) not only taking liberties with reality, he/she/they are deliberately manipulating the feelings and thoughts of the reader. What moves you most in a work of literature? On the other hand, perhaps she was just trying to spare my feelings. Which I suppose just goes to show that one oughtn’t to leap to conclusions about what people mean, at least not without further conversation. Not necessarily literary fiction, as such, but authors who routinely play with language - I reread all of Reginald Hill’s Dalziel and Pascoe novels while writing the most recent book. Yes, I do read more than one book at once, unless it’s really gripping.)Įarly on, though, I like to read fiction with a strong poetic feel, because the sense of beautiful language is catching (see “How We Fight for Our Lives,” noted above). 1 of the Inspector Maigret Omnibus by Georges Simenon and David Ebershoff’s “The 19th Wife.” Also “The Big Blue Jobbie,” by Yvonne Vincent. In the final few months to a year, though, I can’t risk reading anything I can’t put down to work, so I tend to read good, but less gripping books - or, if gripping, short ones. (I tend to have long processes.) Early on and through the middle, I read anything and lots of it. What do you read when you’re working on a book? And what kind of reading do you avoid while writing?