I have never been a one to read one book at a time. To my parents’ chagrin, the piles of books rising from the floor tended to grow before their very own eyes, towering over the nightstands, threatening to topple over at any given time. Book shopping soon became book hoarding and book sneaking followed by bookstore visiting interdictions.
Never enough of bookshelves around here. Most probably that’s where Katie‘s passion and adventures started. When I started writing Katie’s adventures (a loooong time ago), I could picture her surrounded by books. An entire Library filled with knowledge and with adventures ready to be discovered was there, at the tip of my pen and that part was easy.
Here’s a writer’s reading list, or better yet, what’s on my nightstand at the moment. There are some I love, some I find okay, and some that I truly dislike, with a passion. But then again, writing a book is not an easy and simple task, that’s why (probably) we need to read some more…
Romanian authors
Alexandru Mitru- Legendele Olimpului
Simona Antonescu – Hanul lui Manuc
Mihail Drumes – Povestea neamului Romanesc (Vol.3)
Camelia Cavadia – Sufletul lumii
Foreign authors
Robert Jordan – Book 3 of The Wheel of Time – The Dragon Reborn
Sharon Mass – Violin Maker’s Daughter
C.S. Lewis – Christian Reflections
Amos Oz – Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest
Manuel Vilas – Ordesa
Toshikazu Kawaguchi – Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Jose Saramago – The Last Notebook of Lanzarote
Frank Baum – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Alix E. Harrow – The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Andrej Sapkowski – The Last Wish
Ebooks
Richard Powers – The Overstory
Joseph Loconte – A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a great War
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius
John Muir – Ultimate Collection
Laura Pashby – Little Stories of Your Life