Why, Yes, There Is A Book In My Purse ... Always.
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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 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling Kilkenny (and the rest of the series) - Louis L'Amour The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka Rain Dogs - Adrian McKinty Storm Front (and the next four books in the series) - Jim Butcher The Time Machine - H.G. Wells Told You Twice - Kristen Heitzmann The Trespasser - Tana French What's Mine's Mine - George MacDonald Favorite Fiction Reads of 2015 Black River - S. M. Hulse Burning Sky - Lori Benton Capturing Today - Jess Evander Emma - Jane Austen Knots and Crosses - Ian Rankin The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler The Opposite of Everyone - Joshilyn Jackson (ARC) Secrets and Unforgotten - Kristen Heitzmann Steelheart - Brandon Sanderson The Sunken Realm - Serena Chase True Grit - Charles Portis 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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