I read four to seven books a week. Mostly, but exclusively, I read fiction. Junk fiction. Popular fiction. Detective stories, fantasy stories, sci-fi stories, magical stories, and espionage stories are the sorts of stuff I read. I stay away from romance, really dark stories, and zombie/vampire series. On the other hand I have read a bit of history, including a book on the equations that changed or created our history. Maybe I am a bit eclectic.
I have my standards. If a story or history or essay is not well written I do not finish it. If it has too many typos I drop it. If the story is choppy in a convoluted or way useless to telling the story I quit reading it. I have lots to choose from that meets my standards of quality. "Why waste time," I ask myself, "forcing myself to read poorly written [from my point of view] stuff when there is so much well written material I have not yet read?"
I started to create another blog for this series, then decided it fits in this one reasonably well. Fall is here, I have a backlog of books and stories I have read, and it's time to write in a more disciplined way. I took three months "off" and only wrote haphazardly. This should be fun.
I hope you enjoy the series.
Here are a few authors I have enjoyed this summer. I'll be writing about some of their stories.
- Robin Hobb.
- Lois McMasters Bujold
- Trudi Canavan
- Robert Parker
- Kristen Britain
- Terry Pratchett
- Mercedes Lackey
- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
- Elizabeth Moon
- Robert K. Tanebaum
- David Weber
- Stuart Firestein
- Ian Stewart
- Alex Berenson
- David Baldacci
These are in no particular order. My next article will select a work and mull it over with you.
Al
I remembered another author I particularly enjoy: Sara Paretsky. Her book "Total Recall" is most worthwhile
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