Reading, Writing and Authors

When it comes to reading, my tastes span the spectrum. About half of what I read is non-fiction. As for fiction, there are some categories that I read more often than others.

Now I still have a large number of hardbacks to read, but these days the new books I buy are always e-books. I've come to prefer using an e-reader. It's light, easy to hold, and when my eyes are tired from working on the computer all day, I can change the font size to whatever's comfortable for me.

Of course my reading slows substantially—almost coming to a halt at times—when I'm deep into working on my next story. I do my writing with the computer, at least for the first drafts. When I'm comfortable with where I've taken the story, I switch to paper for the last few drafts. I find I pick up things with paper that I miss when staring at a computer screen. But that's enough about me.

In the past I've read a lot of mysteries, but not much in the past decade. My uncle , however, is an avid reader, especially of mystery and thriller genres. He recently sent me a link to an interview with PD James, whom he's quite fond of. Since I know she had a large following, I'm posting the link here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/...

Oh, here's a fascinating article I came across while perusing Der Spiegel. It's about Stieg Larsson and the fallout over his estate after his sudden death. In my opinion, his estate should have gone to his long-time mate (32 years together). Swedish law, however, says if you're not married (no matter how long you've lived together) it goes to blood relatives.

Stieg Larsson wrote the Millennium trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/z...

Back to my uncle. He also sent me a link to the author Will Self. Now I've never read anything by this man, but after reading the description of his latest novel, I'm thinking of picking up the book. My dilemma is that I already have so many other books I want to read, I have no idea when I'd be able to get to it. Definitely not this year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/...