Ed Lynskey's Blog: Cracked Rearview Mirror - Posts Tagged "reader"

Everybody has a preferred place to hang out when they're reading. This assumes you've got the leisure to read between all shopping, work, and just keeping together body and soul. As a kid, I liked to read books in a shady copse of pin oaks. Reading on a bus or auto that's in motion leaves me sick. On the other hand, reading in bed at night seems to claim a lot of my book time. I don't have an e-book reader (yet), so I can't comment if owning one makes it easier to read during the various slow times throughout the day. I see readers in the bistros and coffeehouses, but the outside noise distracts me.

To be blunt: yes, it is. At least that's my reply after I've written more than a dozen novels, and kept this weblog perking for a mere six months. The aim is to keep your blog sounding congenial, engaging, and laconic.

The third aim--laconic--is becoming harder for me to do. So, I have to compress and end things faster. One advantage about a novel is you can revise it any number of times before it goes live. A blog is a few words you toss off the cuff, and hit the PUBLISH button. Presto! My words enter cyberspace.

I'll let you in on a secret: I have to revise my blogs before I release them to inflict on the world.

By Ed Lynskey
Twitter: @edlynskey
Author of Lake Charles
"Nice addition to anyone’s summer beach reading schedule."
Florida Times-Union

Leaving aside the bible and other religious texts, which book have you re-read the most times? Do you remember how many times you've read it? Has it gotten better with each read? I guess for me The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald would probably take first prize. No doubt its being on required book lists for the literature classes I've taken accounts for why I've read Gatsby so many times. I did read it a couple of years ago just for kicks. Do I intend to read it ever again? Probably not. In crime fiction, I'd like to re-read Chandler's early books as well as Ross Macdonald's best Lew Archers. I'd also lump in James M. Cain and Jim Thompson's best noirs. My 88th book read this year just got logged in, so I'm making some headway.

Happy reading to you and yours!

By Ed Lynskey
Twitter: @edlynskey
Author of Lake Charles
"Definitely recommend you take a fictional journey to Lake Charles."
Elizabeth A. White's Musings of an All Purpose Monkey