Writers Read
I love to get lost in a good book, and reading helps me write better. I try to keep this page up to date with my latest reads.
Accomplishment! The “Read” Pile:
2010
Rainwater- Sandra Brown
Her Fearful Symmetry- Audrey Niffenegger
Sugar- Bernice McFadden- -
My 2009 and current reviews of my “Read” Pile are here.
The “Currently Reading” Pile…
What AREN’T I reading? Let’s take a dip through the Kindle:
(All synopses taken from Amazon.com)
This Bitter Earth-Bernice McFadden- Sequel to Sugar. Sugar was so good, I had to get this one!
In a heartfelt but lackluster sequel to her critically acclaimed debut, Sugar, McFadden follows Sugar as she attempts to heal her physical and emotional wounds. In the winter of 1955, Sugar Lacey leaves her man, the evil Lappy Clayton, in Bigelow, Ark., to return to Short Junction only 10 miles, but a world away. The Lacey sisters, who raised Sugar from birth and employed her in their house of ill repute, welcome her back and answer her questions about her parents. When all three sisters die, Sugar receives her inheritance, and would live comfortably if not for the ghosts of the past that won’t leave her in peace.
The Climax- Allison Hobbes- Against my better judgment, I keep picking up this book. I kind of don’t like it, but I can’t stop reading it. It’s pretty graphic, sexually but not in a good way. I find myself skipping sections cause I just don’t want to read that, but I do want to know how the story turns out so I keep picking it up.
A seductive tale of lust and revenge, The Climax charts the entangled lives of two women — Terelle and Kai — who have both suffered irrecoverable losses in their pursuit of Marquise, who is believed to be dead. Kai is in prison, and Terelle suffered from a mental breakdown after losing her fiancé. After two years of catatonia, Terelle is awakened by a sweet and mysterious kiss, and the voice of her lost love.
Save Me- Rebecca Abbott Miller- Rebecca is a friend of mine that I met through my writing conquests. She’s on her third novel and I’m making it a point to re-read the first two and review them. I just seem to have book ADD at the moment. Save Me is the second book in the Quintessential Series.
There was nothing exciting about Crossdale, North Carolina. For Hannah Doherty, that was a good thing. After twenty-one years of unpredictability, sadness and disappointment, she needed boring
Max Fitzgerald was living a dream as a member of the hottest “”boyband”" in the history of the world. He had it all, including a hole in his heart that he couldn’t fill with fame, fortune, women and parties.
When Max finds himself stranded in Crossdale, it’s the beginning of an adventure that neither he or Hannah are prepared for. Can true love grow from a one night stand between strangers? And will it be enough to save them form the forces that threaten to tear them apart? The Quintessential Series Continues…
A Plague of Secrets- John Lescroart- I just like Mr Lescroart’s work. A lot.
A brisk pace, sharp dialogue and believable characters propel bestseller Lescroart’s 13th thriller to feature San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy (after Betrayal). When someone shoots Dylan Volger in an alley near the coffee shop he managed, Bay Beans West, the cops discover a load of marijuana in the victim’s backpack, a crop of weed growing in his attic and a customer list that includes a judge and several local officials. Suspicion centers on Hardy’s client and Bay Beans West’s owner, Maya Townshend, who’s the sister of a city supervisor and the mayor’s niece. That Maya was paying Volger an unusually high salary of $90,000 suggests he was blackmailing her. An arrogant U.S. attorney decides to turn the trial into a career-making moment, invoking a little-known law to prosecute Maya. Lescroart skillfully juggles myriad plot threads, including one involving homicide detective Abe Glitsky, a series regular, whose young son is in a coma after a car accident.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings-Maya Angelou- A reread, for my 2010 writing project. My main character identifies closely with young Maya. She feels she has a voice that isn’t heard. A lot to say but no one’s listening. She’s a bird that wants to sing, trapped in a cage of expectation, longing to be free.
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California–where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou’s “gift for language and observation,” this “remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant.”
The NeverEnding Story– the “To Be Read” pile:
Build My World- Rebecca Abbot Miller- Another re-read so I can review it.
Searching for Tina Turner by Jacqueline Luckett
Wench by Dolen Perkins Valdez
What Mother Never Told Me by Donna Hill
Take Your Pleasure Where You Find it by J.D. Mason
What Doesn’t Kill You by Virginia DeBerry
A Deep Dark Secret (recommended for those who enjoyed Push by Sapphire) by Kimberly Lawson Roby
The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner Andrea Smith- I used to work with Andrea. She left the company to focus full time on writing. When she left, I took her place. She has a previous title, Friday Nights at HoneyBees that did very well.
Paranoia- Joseph Finder- Mostly because I enjoy some thrillers and I’m trying to get interested in the spy/espionage vein. And I follow him on twitter and he tweeted me once. *laugh*
Amy and Isabelle- Elizabeth Strout – It sounded good and it was free.
Shelter Me- Juliette Fay -More sounding good and being free
Lush Life- Richard Price- I started this months ago and got distracted. Making its way back to the to be read pile.
By Reason of Insanity- Randy Singer- Looked interesting from the synopsis
