Books YA/MG fiction The Girl of Fire and Thorns (***** – loved) Leverage (***** – loved) Adult fiction Whispers Under Ground (***** – loved) The Last Policeman: A Novel (**** – liked) Redshirts (*** – enjoyed) The Surgeon (**** – liked) Adult non-fiction Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy…
(But first… happy birthday, Grace! Yaaaaaay!) Almost every how-to writing book you can find advises would-be writers to read extensively. This is sound advice. Reading a lot of what you want to write helps you to understand it viscerally the same way doing lots of math problems is a different…
… although, for some of them, “sing” might be optimistic. However, most of the cast of Tom Hooper’s cinematic adaptation of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Michel Boublil’s successful musical, Les Misérables, are quite pleasant to hear.
… is now I have to explain how horribly I did with last year’s resolutions.