reading recs
In addition to my usual reading for work -- manuscripts, partials, queries, etc. -- I've been doing a fair amount of reading for pleasure these days. At least more than I managed over the past year or so. It's great because, as I've mentioned here before, an agent needs to keep abreast of what's going on out there in the market in order to do the best job for their clients. But of course it's also great because I'm a certified bookworm, and I'm a far happier person when I have time to read. Reading is up there on my list of necessities with food and water and a roof over my head.
Right now I'm finishing up Elizabeth Bear's Hammered, to be followed by the sequel, Scardown. Also coming up on my read-soon-list are Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping, Nicole Krauss's The History of Love, and Nightlife by Rob Thurman. Of my recent reads, I heartily recommend Cherie Priest's Four and Twenty Blackbirds if you like Southern gothics, and for Ray Bradbury fans, the biography by Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles, is wonderfully entertaining.
How about all of you? What are you reading these days? Anything good? Anything you're dying to share? Or, conversely, anything you really didn't like? Here's your chance to tell the world... Or at least the readers of this blog. So, speak up!
Right now I'm finishing up Elizabeth Bear's Hammered, to be followed by the sequel, Scardown. Also coming up on my read-soon-list are Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping, Nicole Krauss's The History of Love, and Nightlife by Rob Thurman. Of my recent reads, I heartily recommend Cherie Priest's Four and Twenty Blackbirds if you like Southern gothics, and for Ray Bradbury fans, the biography by Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles, is wonderfully entertaining.
How about all of you? What are you reading these days? Anything good? Anything you're dying to share? Or, conversely, anything you really didn't like? Here's your chance to tell the world... Or at least the readers of this blog. So, speak up!