This page is devoted (or perhaps just vaguely inclined) to what I’m reading, what I’m not reading, what I can’t imagine reading, and what I can’t wait to read. Some links to pages and/or people I like as well as any of my blog posts related to reading appear below.
- The Marginalian (Maria Popova)
- The Sprawl Mag (Mahaila Smith: a POET, therefore there will be POETRY)
- Down to the Wire (Colman Brown aka Jacques Rockhard)
- Goodreads
- The Story Sanctuary
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If you liked Stardust, by Neil Gaiman…
All of the books on this list share a leaning toward magic realism. In some the realism is to the fore, and in others, it’s the magic, but in every case, the author makes effective use of either or both to illuminate their story in beautiful and devastating ways. What I love about Stardust is that it is a fairy tale with bells on, that never claims to be for children. The story is, on the one hand, a straightforward fairy story of the hero’s journey kind. On the other, it is an exploration of what fairy tales can tell…
Carry on…
A Reader’s Dilemma
Three elements make up a great book, for me; A clever, compelling, or congenial plot: characters I enjoy spending time with; and beautiful writing. Now, I’ve been known to read books with less – I’ve been known to enjoy books with only two out of three of these. But a great book has all three. My favourites – the ones I read over and over, are the ones that have exactly the proportion of these elements that I crave. This craving changes from time to time. For example, before I was 30, I read Pride and Prejudice more than 30…
Carry on…
Elizabeth Knighton Brown 