Reading
I began reading at a very young age, and was reading as best I could by the time I started kindergarten. I also read for a living, as an English professor. If you would have told 13-year-old me that I could make a career out of reading and writing, I would have cried with joy. And I did!
I love my job, and writing novels is just a bonus.
My tastes are wide and varied. I love eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, seventeenth-century drama, twenty-first century young adult and sci fi/fantasy, mysteries of every era, the gothic novel, Romantic poetry, pretty much everything but Westerns and really hard sci fi.
Some of my favorite writers include:
Connie Willis, Emily Henry, Tana French, Rainbow Rowell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Stephen King, NK Jemisin, Joe Hill, Leigh Bardugo, Holly Black, Helen Oyeyemi, Cecil Castellucci, Maggie Stiefvater, and a million more.
Because I'm out of shelf space (the horror! the horror!), most of my book purchases are now on the Kindle. And had you told 13-year-old me that one day, I'd have 2000 books in my purse ready to pull out on a moment's notice, I would have told you, "shut up! for real???"
I'm always trying to make 13-year-old me happy.
I began reading at a very young age, and was reading as best I could by the time I started kindergarten. I also read for a living, as an English professor. If you would have told 13-year-old me that I could make a career out of reading and writing, I would have cried with joy. And I did!
I love my job, and writing novels is just a bonus.
My tastes are wide and varied. I love eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, seventeenth-century drama, twenty-first century young adult and sci fi/fantasy, mysteries of every era, the gothic novel, Romantic poetry, pretty much everything but Westerns and really hard sci fi.
Some of my favorite writers include:
Connie Willis, Emily Henry, Tana French, Rainbow Rowell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Stephen King, NK Jemisin, Joe Hill, Leigh Bardugo, Holly Black, Helen Oyeyemi, Cecil Castellucci, Maggie Stiefvater, and a million more.
Because I'm out of shelf space (the horror! the horror!), most of my book purchases are now on the Kindle. And had you told 13-year-old me that one day, I'd have 2000 books in my purse ready to pull out on a moment's notice, I would have told you, "shut up! for real???"
I'm always trying to make 13-year-old me happy.
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