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Why, Yes, There Is A Book In My Purse ... Always.

Favorite Fiction Reads of 2017
The Dark Tower and Other Stories - C.S. Lewis
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

Double Indemnity - James M. Cain
The Dresden Files, Books 6-15 - Jim Butcher
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The House at Pooh Corner - A.A. Milne
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
Lilith - George MacDonald
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly - Adrian McKinty
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Red River - Borden Chase

A Wizard of Earthsea - Usula K. LeGuin

Favorite Fiction Reads of 2016
Borderline - Mishell Baker
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Dodgers - Bill Beverly
The Drifter - Nicholas Petrie
Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
A Flight of Arrows - Lori Benton
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Kilkenny (and the rest of the series) - Louis L'Amour
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Dresden Files, Books 1-5 - Jim Butcher
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Told You Twice - Kristen Heitzmann
The Trespasser - Tana French
What's Mine's Mine - George MacDonald


What Brings Me Back To An Author
I love sensing the author knew the characters first, before the plot or the storyworld. I love sensing the author knows more about the characters than he's going to tell me in this book. I love deep point of view. I love realistic, human dialogue. I love prose with a voice (I can't define "voice," but when I read a good one, I latch on with giddy loyalty). I love characters with individualizing details. I love being trusted to understand the themes without the author's assistance. And (believe it or not) I love word economy.
“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
-David Quammen
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