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[jasonandrew]

I think if you want to be a writer, you have to read. You have to read the best that you can find, not just the popcorn stuff. I love short stories so often I am attracted to anthologies. I’m slowly picking my way through various anthologies now. I think I’m going to start writing reviews.

I am curious to see what people on my friends-list are reading.

My reading current list is:

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Paperback)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446677248/104-9270641-4288747?v=glance&n=283155

I’ve been very much enjoying this anthology and looking at the change of perception. After reading some of the stories in this anthology, I decided to change the race of one of the characters in the Phoenix Chronicles. Styles has much of the flavor of the personality to a friend of mine, but also from inspiration from this anthology.

Shadows Over Bakerstreet
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345455282/104-9270641-4288747?v=glance&n=283155

This has been very fun to read. I love a Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman. Very creepy.

Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451460367

Neil Gaiman also stands out with “The Problem with Susan.” It is very weird. I need to share it with Michael. It is about why Susan didn’t get to go to Narnia Heaven in the Chronicles of Narnia.

Books I am going to look up:

Counting Heads by David Marusek
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765312670/104-9270641-4288747?v=glance&n=283155

The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show: A Novel (Plus) (Paperback) by Ariel Gore
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060854286

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439531640/104-9270641-4288747?v=glance&n=283155

Comments

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

I'd love to read the Susan story.

Let's see...

[sebbiem.livejournal.com]

Great Railway Bazaar, by Paul Theroux, a travel book in which the author circles Asia on trains in 1973. Good writing, good style, weird moment in history--the Shah rules in Iran, Pakistan hates Bangladesh for getting independance just two years earlier, the US just pulled out of Vietnam but the war is still going on. Very good.

Was, by Geoff Ryman, a novel that's about the Wizard of Oz, book and movie and "real" history behind it. Pretty good so far, but I'm not far in.

The Outline of History, by George Orwell, his two volume history of the world since the beginning of time. I'm barely into the second volume. It was written mainly just after World War One, and it's pretty riddled with strange notions that aren't much accepted now.