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Show Notes: Reading Everything in Sight
Michael, Michael and Lorrie chat about reading frequently, since Lorrie seems to go through at least 10 books a week. They talk about following stories and series, about how rereading books may or may not change previous impressions, and more.
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Listener review: Little John in Milwaukee gives us a quick review of Jim Butcher’s Small Favor.
The Library: This week, the new entries are: Blood Ties: Blood Bank by Tanya Huff; A Darkness Forged in Fire by Chris Evans; Fallen by Tim Lebbon; Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow; Iron Angel by Allen Campbell; The Shadow Isle by Katherine Kerr.
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How much do I read?… well, not as much as I used to — but — I listen to a helluva lot more audio fiction than I used to. I keep an online reading journal, my name is the link to it. A reading journal is a very useful and interesting thing to keep and I was inspired to do it after reading Stephen King’s On Writing, where he lists all the books he read in a year, including audio books. I’d love to see Lorrie’s reading list for a year!
The reading journal is also a great way to keep track of your reading speed, i.e. books per month, or — more accurately if you keep work out how many words are in each book you read — words per month. I think it is fair — these days especially — to include online and audio fiction in your reading list.
On another note; the Library segment. We always hear about printed books, never about online or podcast fiction. I’d like to hear more about online books, especially considering how much Mike Stackpole is telling us all that online fiction is the new delivery system for fiction and that the purveyors of dead wood are fast becoming a thing of the past. The only hardcopy fiction I read comes from the library these days, it’s just not economically viable for me to go out to a bookstore and buy a big wedge of paper anymore.
I think it’s time we saw this change in the industry reflected in Dragon Page’s Library Segment… er, perhaps this is another comment that I should copy over to the forums…
I used to read upwards of 50 books a year, but then I started college, and that really cut in to my reading for pleasure time. The last two books I satrted for myself, back in December, I have still haven’t finished (Neverwhere and The Shock Doctrine).
I tell ya, once I graduate, I’m gonna take some vacation time, hide my iPod, and go to a park with a sack full of books and some bottled water and appetite supressants and just go on a literary binge.
Reading quickly, I think, is not a positive thing unless you’re married to Mr. Mennenga, with a steady influx of material.
I’m a library addict, as I can’t fund the habit…I wonder how electronic media will change the face of public libraries?
I read at about 100 pages an hour. If I’ve never read a book before, I can’t start it without finishing it in the same night, which sometimes means two or three hours of sleep between of all the damned 800 page books some people are putting out nowdays and stupidly starting a book at 11 pm….
If I’m in a “Reading” phase, I’ll do two a night. Luckily, it comes and goes- if a good video game is out, I can go weeks with just one or two re-reads from my collection.
What kind of luck is it that the only thing I do with any efficiency is something that takes money instead of makes money?