reading

Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbours and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what. J. P. Donleavy

I am now working through the process of facilitating beta reading for my second novel. Like my first novel, collating everyone's feedback, comments, highlights etc is then a manual effort on my part, since I have issued the novel as a printed book. A 'tracked changes' Word document would make...

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities. Ben Okri

“Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.” Becca Fitzpatrick

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another skin, another voice, another soul.” Joyce Carol Oates

'Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' Ian McEwan

'I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.' Anton Chekhov

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.” Nora Ephron

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification would be a pretty dull experience. Thomas Perry

Hi everyone, A little while ago, in another thread, I said this: To which, @KateESal replied with this: And I think you're right, Kate – it does look like an interesting discussion – hence this thread. And thanks for the idea. I hope you don't mind me running with it! :) I read mostly to be...

I’ve raced through my stack of books and need some recommendations! My preferred genre is novels: recent favorites that I highly recommend are Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward, and Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume. All three of these use language...