My Library
My husband and I are avid readers with stacks of books all over the house. Books are old friends, often read several times before they are shuffled to one of our many bookcases or to a more obscure stack (only to be recycled into active reading again at a later date). I am also a nut for the Bargain Books section of our local Borders, from which my husband must often drag me by the hair (unless of course he’s completely lost himself in Fantasy/Sci-Fi).
I read for pleasure and to learn. Equally in love with fiction and non-fiction, I fall asleep to a book every night. New bookcases have been on my Christmas Wish List for several years now, lol.
Below is a list of my recent reading. I’ll update periodically.
CURRENT: Bulletproof Book Proposals, Pam Brodowsky & Eric Neuhaus
Next up: Continued revisions on Song of the Elements
Recent:
- The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
- Ancestors of Avalon (fiction)
- Elements of Style, Shrunk & White
- The List, J A Konrath, a free Ebook download from the author’s website.
- Origin, J A Konrath, a free Ebook download that I read in one sitting.
- The Illuminator (fiction)
- How Not to Write a Novel, Howard Mittelmark & Sandra Newman
- On Writing Well, William Zinsser
- Bersingr, C Paolini
- No Plot? No Problem!, Chris Baty
- The Art of Romance Writing, Valerie Parv
- The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova (fiction)
- Charade, Sandra Brown (re-read)
- Putting Your Passion Into Print, Arielle Eckstut & David Henry Sterry
- Courage to Write, Ralph Keyes
- The Tao of Writing, Ralph Wahlstrom
- Stein on Writing, Sol Stein (I couldn’t help it…I got the book and all other reading flew away!)
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
- Getting Things Done, David Allen
- How to Grow A Novel, Sol Stein. Stay tuned for reviews and articles.
- Waterdeep, City of Splendors, Ed Greenwood (re-read)
- The Gift, Julie Garwood (re-read)
- Silverfall (reread), Ed Greenwood
- The Elenium (reread)(trilogy: The Diamond Throne, The Ruby Knight, The Sapphire Rose), David Eddings
- Frostfell, Mark Sehestedt
- A Voice from Home, Rich Stevenson
- Adventures in Ocean Exploration, Robert D. Ballard, Malcolm McDonnel/National Geographic
- In the King’s Name (reread), Jo Walton
- Castles, Palaces, & Stately Houses of Britain & Ireland, Charles Phillips, Richard Wilson
- Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Chapter on William Tyndale
- The City of Splendors (reread), Ed Greenwood
- The Kings and Queens of England, Ian Crofton
- The History of Writing, Steven Roger Fischer. This book is written in heavy academic language that can be hard to get through and is not considered light reading. I’ve been working on this one for a while and will continue to do so as the topic is fascinating.
Reference works with a permanent place on my desk:
- Stein on Writing, Sol Stein
- Becoming a Writer, Dorothea Brande
- Writing from Both Sides of the Brain, Dr. Henriette Anne Klauser
- Creating a Life Worth Living, Carol Lloyd
- Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
- Writer’s Complete Fantasy Reference: an Indispensible Compendium of Myth and Magic, Writer’s Digest/Terry Brooks, et al
- Who’s Who in the Bible
- Bullfinch’s Mythology
- The Bible
