We haven’t started yet, but we’ve both been rather busy.ĭo you count any books as guilty pleasures? Now that said book is finished, though, I have a deal with one of my favorite booksellers, to read “Swann’s Way” together. Not necessarily literary fiction, as such, but authors who routinely play with language - I reread all of Reginald Hill’s Dalziel and Pascoe novels while writing the most recent book. Yes, I do read more than one book at once, unless it’s really gripping.)Įarly on, though, I like to read fiction with a strong poetic feel, because the sense of beautiful language is catching (see “How We Fight for Our Lives,” noted above). 1 of the Inspector Maigret Omnibus by Georges Simenon and David Ebershoff’s “The 19th Wife.” Also “The Big Blue Jobbie,” by Yvonne Vincent. In the final few months to a year, though, I can’t risk reading anything I can’t put down to work, so I tend to read good, but less gripping books - or, if gripping, short ones. (I tend to have long processes.) Early on and through the middle, I read anything and lots of it. What do you read when you’re working on a book? And what kind of reading do you avoid while writing?
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