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50 Books in 2007
Power-read my way through On Writing, which read wonderfully well as a lite memoir of an artist's journey and a good if short collection of writerly advice. King has such a direct way of writing, as though he's sitting across a table from you and telling you a story, or an anecdote or a sage piece of advice. I think that's why his horror is so popular, because it comes dressed in ordinary clothes, phrased the way that regular people think, which makes the horror and terror and creatures from beyond, et alia, all that much more gripping.
I have my next book already started -- Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones, and I'm already 100 pages along in it, thanks to a longish commute this morning. Would you believe that in this sequel, we haven't yet gotten to Howl or any of that cast of characters by this point? That's definitely a Jones-ish sequel, for sure.
Not that I'm not enjoying it. I'd just kick if I was in swimming, you see.
11. On Writing, Stephen King.
10. The Merlin Conspiracy, Diana Wynne Jones
9. Point of Honour, Madeline Robins
8. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
7. The Language of Power, Rosemary Kirstein
6. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, Laurence Gonzales
5. The Planets, Dava Sobel
4. The Nanny Diaries
3. Maskerade, Terry Pratchett
2. Tyrannosaur Canyon, Douglas Preston
1. The Garden of Iden, Kage Baker
You know, I may eventually need a Book icon of some kind. In the meantime, you'll just have to take pot-luck.
I have my next book already started -- Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones, and I'm already 100 pages along in it, thanks to a longish commute this morning. Would you believe that in this sequel, we haven't yet gotten to Howl or any of that cast of characters by this point? That's definitely a Jones-ish sequel, for sure.
Not that I'm not enjoying it. I'd just kick if I was in swimming, you see.
11. On Writing, Stephen King.
10. The Merlin Conspiracy, Diana Wynne Jones
9. Point of Honour, Madeline Robins
8. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
7. The Language of Power, Rosemary Kirstein
6. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, Laurence Gonzales
5. The Planets, Dava Sobel
4. The Nanny Diaries
3. Maskerade, Terry Pratchett
2. Tyrannosaur Canyon, Douglas Preston
1. The Garden of Iden, Kage Baker
You know, I may eventually need a Book icon of some kind. In the meantime, you'll just have to take pot-luck.
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The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish them. Words shrink things that seem limitless in your mind to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemy would love to steal away. And you may say things that cost you dearly, only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all. That's the worst, I think; when the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.
--Stephen King
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My favorite part of the book is where he talks about the accident, or as he says (roughly) the day he "met one of my own characters."