B is for Books

As if B could be for anything else! I started off the year with a bang, reading five books by early February. The first four were thrillers, which is my favorite genre to read, and the fifth was the Joshilyn Jackson title on the right sidebar. All I have to say is READ THAT BOOK. Oh Em Gee is it AMAZEBALLS.

Then I got busy writing. And I KNOW Stephen King in ON WRITING says: "Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." But sometimes I just can't make it happen. I can watch TV and not lose my story, but if I get caught up in another author's world, it throws me out of my own.

Some writers solve this problem by reading nonfiction while writing, or reading a different genre than what they write. I actually (BIG CONFESSION TIME) don't read romance much. I write romance, I love romance, but for me reading what I write is like homework. I don't do this with other genres because I'm not as fluent in the constructs.

Now, this doesn't stop me from buying romances. Oh, the buying of the romances, especially with the easy instant digital download options offered to me by my Kindle Fire, my Kindle app on my iPod, and my Kindle app on my Blackberry. So, yes. There is much MUCH buying going on. And now that I've turned in yesterday's deadline manuscript, it's time to dive in and read some of what I've been amassing. After seeing The Hunger Games movie, I actually have an urge to read those again – and I never NEVER read books more than once. The only one I ever have is The Thorn Birds!

You? Do you read while you're writing? Do you read what you write? Do you re-read?

What good reads am I missing?

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