Heather at Errant Dreams came up with a wonderful meme–enjoy & consider yourself tagged!
* Answer the questions as you see fit. Although they’re all phrased to ask about a singular author, feel free to respond with multiples, or even a list.
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Picked this meme up from Melanie, in honor of two YA books I read for work this weekend.
The goal of this is to list favourite authors according to last name (with a representative fave book as well).
Atwood, Margaret — Cat’s Eye
Bronte, Charlotte — Jane Eyre
Card, Orson Scott — Ender’s Game
Dragonwagon, Crescent — The Year [...]

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I had a work read today that was an oddity of a historical novel. I suspect some of what I read will stay with me for quite some time.
So, in honor of that read, here’s a meme I found at So Many Books
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From my shared items (available in the top left corner of the blog, as well as by RSS), I thought I’d highlight this post from the Guardian. It opens:
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Last night’s work read saw a celebrated author of so-called “literary fiction” attempting a murder mystery. Great characters, fabulous dialogue, smart ideas–terrible plot. Why? The writer doesn’t know the first thing about genre satisfaction.
This happens from time to time. A “real writer” will decide to take on a genre, thinking that [...]

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Phew!! Finally done with my work reading for the weekend. I finished up with 2 very short books in the same series. (By the way, I hate that Wordpress only lets me publish partial feeds b/c of a bug. Sorry.)
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This post is going up in commemoration of the book I read for work last night and this morning. Check out the On Reading tag for more of the same. The book I read for work, while I won’t reveal the title or author because it hasn’t been published yet, had a really [...]

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