Welcome back to our reading diaries! Once a month the WWAC crew chats about their reading lives. This month we’re reading YA, romance and post-apocalyptic everything. Sarah: I can not look at my to-read pile without feeling guilty. And that doesn’t count the stuff on my Kindle, nicely tucked away so I can’t see the…
Reading Diaries: Legends, Betrayal, and Revenge
Welcome back to WWAC’s Reading Diaries, an informal chat about the books we’ve been loving — and not loving — in the past month. Sarah: I’m currently reading Hamlet’s Hit Points by Robin D. Laws. It’s a book on breaking story beats down in order to be better at role-playing and telling stories in general….
Reading Diaries: Study Them When They’re Coming Apart
This month I read The Sisters Brothers and Room. They were both good, but I think only Sisters Brothers is a reread. Room is the sort of book that’s built around reveals and tension, and I’m not sure that there’s much there once that’s gone. Certainly it’s a clever book, and the child-voice is wonderfully…
Reading Diaries
WWAC writers and the world of prose Megan This month has been a blur. What did I read? What is my name? Instead of just talking about what we’ve been reading, I’d like to know about a book that was important to you but on reread, your feelings were different. Did you feel betrayed by…
Reading Diaries: Super Spies, Sexy Witches, and Shakesdude
Megan: This month I’ve been reading Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare bio. My reading time is still more constrained than I’d like, so I’ve been reading it on my Kobo whenever I can get a few minutes to myself. I’ve not read much Bryson but I’ve been told that this book is the Brysoniest. It feels like…
Reading Diaries: Legends, Flirts, and Fire
What have you been reading? What did you start and then never finish? Reading for work? For pleasure? Megan: I’m a big one for that–my patience is wearing thinner and thinner over the years, and I’m finding novellas and short stories a good fit for my surly-reader< nature. I recently read In The Tall Grass by Steven King and his son…
Reading Diaries: Much Ado About YA, and Some Top Five Bad Books
When last we spoke I was reading Crazy Town. I’m ashamed to say that between work and school, I just didn’t get through it. I recently picked up an interesting book on a research trip to a bookstore (book cover research, aw yeah!). Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books by Jean-Paul…
Reading Diaries #1
In this new feature, WWAC writers chat about good reads, reading ambitions, and what they’re reading right now.