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Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Thoughts on reading

  • Thoughts on reading: Black Man

    I read a lot and as I’ve got better at writing (and more confident in my writing), most of what I read either makes me feel ‘I can do this…


  • Thoughts on reading: Twilight

    People have had lots to say about Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. I probably wouldn’t have picked this up if I hadn’t read so much criticism of it and it got…


  • Thoughts on reading: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

    July’s bookclub book was We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. This is a weird little book about two women who live in seclusion in the family…


  • Thoughts on reading: A Game of Thrones

    A Game of Thrones by G.R.R. Martin is book one of A Song of Ice and Fire which features in my top ten favourite books of all time. This is…


  • Thoughts on reading: The Bluest Eye

    I discovered I could edit on the train so I wasn’t reading for a while. I’ve got as far as I can with editing the current work-in-progress; it now needs…


  • Thoughts on reading: The Hard Way

    Plot. I have issues with plot. I have a mental block when it comes to getting my characters from one big event to another via smaller events. Perhaps it’s just…


  • Thoughts on reading: One Day

    Book club time! This month we read One Day by David Nicholls. It’s mainstream fiction of the Nick Hornby type. I don’t really know what to say about this. The…


  • Thoughts on reading: The Broken Sword

    So, I’m making my way through the Fantasy Masterworks series – this is going to take some time, bear with me – and lately I read The Broken Sword by…


  • Thoughts on reading: Club Dead

    The Book People come to where I work and sometimes you can gets lots of books for little money. The last time they had eight Sookie Stackhouse novels for a…


  • Thoughts on Reading: Confessor

    Confessor is the last of a long cycle by Terry Goodkind. Once again, I haven’t read the others; it’s just something I found on my shelf. I enjoyed the writing.…


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