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