A lot of blogs become "influential" because they are about books, I have read some of these, they are not always interesting, if they focus on the kind of genre fiction I'm not crazy about.
I do occasionally write about books I'm reading - but frankly, I have not been working on getting a following for this, or any other aspect of the blog. I also think that most of the books I read are not recently published, and therefore not "hot" and therefore not of interest to the fashion conscious reader. That said, I have read two books that are just about to be published and I suppose I could write about those, but I am not going to do that.
However, despite a heavy diet of books published in 1910, 2005, 2007 and 2003 (I think), I am now reading a current book: Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies. I really enjoyed Wolf Hall and am finding the way she challenges my Catholic-educated prejudices about Cromwell very enjoyable. I doubt whether I will finish before the great day of the Booker Prize. I really admire her work - she has written several books that have made an impression on me, most notably A Place of Greater Safety, 8 Months on Gizzeh Street, Beyond Black. I have liked some of her other books too. I particularly like the fact that she writes both contemporary novels and historical novels and takes up interesting topics. I guess in so far as there's a writer I would like to be like, it's her. Sadly whenever I have submitted my texts to the I Write Like website, the answer is still HP Lovecraft (why? why?) Actually, I don't particularly aspire to her style - I aspire to her range.
Today the PM announced there would be major national remembrance of the outbreak of WWI. Perhaps I will get my book snapped up as a result...I wonder if Hilary Mantel has ever toyed with the idea of a WWI book. It wasn't my choice to use that period, but it happens to be when the events happened. I am looking forward to getting back to it. Meanwhile I have been re-editing The Romantic Feminist for the "last time" - taking on board the advice Denise gave me. She recommended I take out a lot of the discussion about Feminism and Romanticism... I think she was reading a different book called Lucy gets Laid or something... that was what she enjoyed about the book!
I do occasionally write about books I'm reading - but frankly, I have not been working on getting a following for this, or any other aspect of the blog. I also think that most of the books I read are not recently published, and therefore not "hot" and therefore not of interest to the fashion conscious reader. That said, I have read two books that are just about to be published and I suppose I could write about those, but I am not going to do that.
However, despite a heavy diet of books published in 1910, 2005, 2007 and 2003 (I think), I am now reading a current book: Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies. I really enjoyed Wolf Hall and am finding the way she challenges my Catholic-educated prejudices about Cromwell very enjoyable. I doubt whether I will finish before the great day of the Booker Prize. I really admire her work - she has written several books that have made an impression on me, most notably A Place of Greater Safety, 8 Months on Gizzeh Street, Beyond Black. I have liked some of her other books too. I particularly like the fact that she writes both contemporary novels and historical novels and takes up interesting topics. I guess in so far as there's a writer I would like to be like, it's her. Sadly whenever I have submitted my texts to the I Write Like website, the answer is still HP Lovecraft (why? why?) Actually, I don't particularly aspire to her style - I aspire to her range.
Today the PM announced there would be major national remembrance of the outbreak of WWI. Perhaps I will get my book snapped up as a result...I wonder if Hilary Mantel has ever toyed with the idea of a WWI book. It wasn't my choice to use that period, but it happens to be when the events happened. I am looking forward to getting back to it. Meanwhile I have been re-editing The Romantic Feminist for the "last time" - taking on board the advice Denise gave me. She recommended I take out a lot of the discussion about Feminism and Romanticism... I think she was reading a different book called Lucy gets Laid or something... that was what she enjoyed about the book!
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