As my regular readers know, I recently finished reading a Cornelia Funke book. I generally need a day or two to recover from reading one of her books, so now that a couple days have past it’s time to choose a new book to read. That shouldn’t be to difficult right? I’ve got about a dozen books on my book shelf left over from my last spree at Barnes & Noble that I still need to read. I could just pick one at random and read it, right?
Wrong. All those books are books that I’ve assigned myself to read because they’re books that every fantasy writer should read. But I don’t really feel like reading them, especially not after the perfection that was Fearless. What I really want is a new Neil Gaiman book, but there isn’t one. Or maybe the next book in the Kingkiller Chronicles, but that’ll be a while longer.
Besides the fantasy books that I have waiting to be read, I’ve also got a bunch of books on Medieval architecture, swordsmanship, the history of cooking, ancient cities, and other topics pertinent to my research. I suppose I could crack one of those and settle in for the duration, but that’d be too much like work.
I want to read a book just for the sake of reading it, not to see how it was written, or to figure out how the author pulls the reader in just so. I want to read something that’ll just suck me in and keep me there for a couple days until I’m ready to actually read the books I’ve assigned myself to read. Can anybody help?
Thank you for reading.
Hi Emily. Have you read Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern? Very Gaimanesque and easy to fall into. See http://erinmorgenstern.com/writing/the-night-circus/
i haven’t, but I’ll definitely check it out.