Published Author Or Bust!

I really need to do some more reading. Actual reading, not podiobooks. The thing is, I’ve got in the habit of listening to podiobooks and podcasts on the drive to and from work, which essentially adds up to two hours reading per day - so surely that will suffice for a day’s literary intake? I’ve recently finished Scott Sigler’s Earthcore and I’m currently enjoying Playing For Keeps by Mur Lafferty.

I know I should read more actual books, and I’ve actually built up a pile by the side of my bed: The Time Traveller’s Wife, Bernard Cornwell’s Holy Grail Trilogy, The third and fourth Thursday Next novels, The Wheel Of Time: Book one, Peter Hamilton’s The Reality Disfunction, Red Dwarf: Last Human, Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire, Indiana Jones And The Seven Veils a Wilbur Smith double bill - and my recent encounter with the Golden Compass movie makes me want to read Northern Lights again (if only to confirm how much they got wrong).

But - and this will sound silly - until this weekend, I didn’t have a reading lamp, so reading in bed (my preferred reading location) meant getting out of bed to turn the lights off afterwards. Which is irritating. So now that I have one, I can read some more actual books - when I’m not writing my own.

That pile’s depressingly big now. Need to cut it down.

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