Reading is a big part of my writing experience. I get inspired, I learn and I thoroughly enjoy it as a way to spend my free time. Sometimes deciding what to read next might be an issue, so for those of you in need of inspiration and to keep track of books I’ve read, here are the books of the past two months.
Mircea Cartarescu – Frumoasele Straine (Beautiful Strangers). For my Romanian readers that don’t have the book, here’s a PDF version from the publishing house.
Raymond E. Feist – Magician
Naomi Novik – His Majesty’s Dragon
Charlaine Harris – Grave Surprise, An Ice Cold Grave and Grave Secret, or novels 2, 3 and 4 of the Harper Connely series.
Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – first book in the Millennium Trilogy
This month I am aiming for more than 3-4 books a month. Will let you know how it goes. What are you reading these days?
One of the first blogs I read was called Perfectly Imperfect. Published on the Blogger platform. I was reading about 3 blogs at the time. But this one became my very own addiction. I went through the archives and read every post she (Tina Romano, which was not her real name) published. And I was fervently waiting for a new one, checking for something new a few times a day. I didn’t know about RSS readers back then.
It was a blog written by a woman a bit older than me. Open minded, a little crazy, full of interesting and funny stories. I hoped to be like her in some regards later on. Her old blog turned private at a certain point. And I lost track of her writing. I then rediscovered Perfectly Imperfect. I, of course, instantly subscribed! Reading through her blog, I realized that I didn’t fully understand it back then. I’m closer to it now.
She always had these very cool taglines. But one of them always made me smile… “When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad, I’m better”.