My life in books: I only finish about every fifth book that I start reading
Writer Mike Omer
I have my Kindle on my bedside table, which essentially means I have all my library there. That means I have a pile that includes literary fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, mysteries, thrillers, romance, and a bunch of children’s books.
n by Lloyd Alexander. Nothing like that feeling of being a 10-year-old, reading fantasy out on the grass, to make me feel better.
I only finish about every fifth book I start reading, so that’s a very long list. When I choose a book to read, I start with the book’s sample, which is 10% of the books. If I finish the sample (that happens only about half of the time) I buy the book. Often, I stop reading two pages later.
by Douglas Adams and the series by Terry Pratchett. by Ed McBain made me want to be a crime writer.
I recently read the first three s books by Katie Kirby and they made me incredibly happy. There’s a scene in which she is dressed as a crab, which still gets me laughing when I think about it.
by Tana French. Still recuperating from that one. Damn it, Tana French, why?
by Grant Ginder. There’s a character called Nina Guzman. I don’t want to spoil what he does with that character, but suffice to say that most people have a Nina Guzman in their life. And we should all know that our Nina Guzmans know what’s going on.
Don’t all good books do that? by Barbara Kingsolver. Every page in that book is a painful, beautifully written lesson.
That’s a secret. Because I am going to write it. Probably.
by George Orwell.
That’s a tricky one because with both films that I’m thinking of, I haven’t read the books. But is based on by Roderick Thorp. And is one of my all-time favourite films. is also a phenomenal adaptation, but the book is fantastic too.
I love walking around in bookshops. But I usually end up buying books online, because I find reading on Kindle much more comfortable.
It’s that sort of organisation where it’s a bit genre, but it’s also related to personal memories of certain books. And I also move books around every once in a while according to my mood and the state of my literary soul. So it would probably look like semi-chaos to anyone who tries to figure it out.
I like coffee with my books, but tea and cake work too. And cookies.
Fitz from Robin Hobb’s trilogy. I have hundreds of characters clamouring in my brain for attention, many of whom I wrote. But Fitz and his wolf companion Nighteyes are much louder than the rest. Nighteyes was an inspiration for Nero, who is Kate’s dog in my new book.
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