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If you’ve been following my blog, Fantasy Author’s Handbook, or have “friended” me on GoodReads, you’ll have heard me talk about reading five books at once. That may conjure up visions of me sitting in front of five books, open on a desk in font of me as I read them all ( Read more... )

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Over the past few days, a link to the blog Big Hollywood has been being tossed around by various people I follow on Twitter, generally with some fire in their 140-character bellies. Always curious about the state of the fantasy genre, I followed the link and read “The ( Read more... )

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A month ago, I got to meet Brandon Sanderson not once, but twice! The author who had just finished the final edits of Towers of Midnight (the latest Wheel of Time book) was on tour to promote his latest solo work The Way of Kings a 1,008 page tome which I reviewed in ( Read more... )

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These are all the books I read in 2009.

January February March April May June
July August September October November December
January

1. The Eyes of God by John Marco
2. Eclipse Two edited by Jonathan Strahan
3. The Fanged Crown by Jenna Helland
4. A Song in ( Read more... )

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Provocative Church has a quote from Albert Mohler on the Importance of Reading for the Christian. He also recommends a text found in my own library called How to Read A Book. This book is probably the most comprehensive and understandable document on the subject I have ( Read more... )