Writers as Readers

1. To be comfortable when I'm reading, I need a small, warm and dark place.  There has to be some sort of other sound going on to cancel out the white noise, like the roar of a fire or the whirl of a fan.  I like to have a drink and some little snack like crackers to munch on while I read.




5. I read a book last year called "Bitter End" about a girl who gets in a relationship with a seemingly nice guy but the longer they date, the more abusive he becomes. I read it in less than two days because it was so suspenseful I couldn't put it down. I had to Trudge through the book "The Compound" because the first half of the book was so long and boring but by the end of the book it became one of my favorites.


10. I believe people aren't just moved into action by some fantasy novel series, they were people who already had these sort of tendencies.  They would do bad things whether they read "occult glorifying" books or not.


8. A few years ago I read over 60 hours for a summer book program at my library and as a prize I got to pick out a book out of this box.  I grabbed this brand new book called "Nightshade" with the authors signature on the inside cover. I was embarrassed that it was a fantasy book all about wolves and scary creatures but I loved how the author created strong female characters instead of some sappy love story about a young girl who's sad and some boy comes and makes all her problems go away.


4. When I was a little kid, my siblings and I would tape blankets over our beds to create big forts that we could crawl into. We would take snacks, drinks, blankets, and little flashlights into the bed-forts and have "reading clubs". I loved reading all snuggled up and warm with the dim lights of the flashlights.