What are you reading?

[lizwilliams]

I nicked this from arcaedia and hope she won't mind, but we have a rather differently composited f-list, so...

...what are you reading?

I'm avoiding SF for the immediate future (i.e. until I finish this book) and re-reading Anais Nin's Diaries, which mainly cover the 20s through to the 50s. She's an interesting writer - more surrealist than erotic (Henry Miller persuaded her to write porn for a $ a page and her results have granted her more mileage than her novels, which is somewhat unfair). I'm also reading a book about the composition of women's domestic altars.

And you lot?

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised. I don't even begrudge that: I like to read things in the same settings, or with the same characters, so I can't really object to it.

But I want different authors to sound different. I want to feel like... I can take a vacation from the sameness. And most of all I am exhausted and frustrated with the business for being the most unholy blend of business and art, in which the principles of business can't be employed in any way that actually make sense (the look on the face of the VP of Marketing at my telecom company when I explained publishing to him is still one of my most treasured mental images)...nor can the most important elements of art have any sort of clean sway over things.

I'm just exhausted with all of it. I've been beating my head against this wall for years now.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one. I like to think that I have an individual voice, but I also think I've been lucky to get this far and be left in relative peace. But the price - according to publishers - is sales.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

It is why I alway read your work, even though some of your work strikes me as closer to horror than I tend toward... it's different, it doesn't taste the same as other things, and for that it's breathing fresh air, a new wind.

Are they still pushing you for a sequel to Ghost Sister?