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Tammy Setzer Denton: Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2011 2:28 PM
2011 has been a year of minimal writing, but maximum reading. I consider reading to be a part of the learning process. By reading good and bad writing, I'm learning to tell the difference. I've also made a point of reading various genres, going outside my preferred reading choices in order to experience something new. I even made the leap to e-books. Although I prefer the printed word and an actual book in my hand, there are times when an e-book is simply the more practical choice. You can't beat it for traveling as long as you have access to electricity for recharging.
I'm still sending out queries for my novel, MAN OF THE HOUSE, and getting positive responses. Unfortunately, no one has asked to represent it. It's a tough sell in today's market, but I still feel that it's a story that needs to be told.
I'm approximately one-third of the way through my second novel, SPARED PARTS, and I like where it's going. Novels tend to take on lives of their own and this one is taking me to some amazing and unusual places. However, I have stepped away from that manuscript in order to let it marinate. In the interim, I've been working on short stories and flash fiction.
Of the books below, I have to say that DISMANTLED by Jennifer McMahon stands out the most in my memory. That's not to say the others were not good, but that particular book lingers.
Hopefully, you will find something on the list that intrigues you. Let me know what you're reading and your suggestions for my next read.
- Ironweed by William Kennedy
- Someone to Love by Jude Devereaux
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
- Being Dead by Jim Crace
- Killing Time by Caleb Carr
- Chapters And Verse by Joel Barr
- The Golden Wind by Ann Anderson
- North & South by John Jakes
- Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon
- Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
- The Last Child by John Hart
- The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
- My Tiki Girl by Jennifer McMahon
- Dejá Dead by
Kathy Reichs
- A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds
- The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
- The Dead Lie Down by Sophie Hannah
- Chinese Calligraphy by Joshua Hough
- Look At the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas by Davy Tothbart
- Patchwork Karen Osborn
- The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern
- Afterlife by Rhian Ellis
- Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart
- ‘Night, Mother by Marsha Norman
- The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic
- The Hundred & Ninety-Nine Steps by Michel Faber
- La Mano de Fátima by Idelfonso Falcones
- The Christmas Pig by Kinky Friedman
- The Séance by John Harwood
- Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell
- Imager by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
- Dere Mable by E. Streeter
- Breath and Bones by Susann Cokal
- Captivity by Deborah Noyes
- Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
- Panopticon by David Bajo
- Rain Village by Carolyn Turgeon
- Small Acts of Sex and Electricity by Lise Haines
- Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same by Mattox
Roesch
- Stranger Here Below by Joyce Hinnefeld
- The Distance Between Us by Masha Hamilton
- The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood
- The Evolution of Shadows by Jason Quinn Malott
- The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters by Timothy
Schaffert
- ADHD Eddie Intergalactic Ladies Man! The Demented Diary
of an ADHD Kid by Tom Quinn
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