So much of learning the writing craft has to do with reading. Through reading other similar works, we see examples of dialogue that "works" and of the importance of setting in a story. Plus, numerous other lessons can be learned by reading a few good books in the genre in which you write.
So, what are you reading right now?
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What are your all-time favorite books?
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1st among sequels by jasper fforde
Middlesex
Power of nice
Best of all time is to difficult for me to choose.
Badeaux Knights
Favorite books--The Wee Free Men (Tiffany Aching series) by Terry Pratchett, Jane Austen, Robery Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey
I have enjoyed these:
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
A House Divided by Deborah Leblanc
Good Grief by Lolly Winston
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Okay, I'll stop now.
In through the looking glass by Lewis Carrol (Dare I say?)
Readings in ancient western phylosophy by George F Mc Lean, Patrick J Aspell.
Heechee Rendezvous by Fredrick Pohl
High Rhulian by Brian Jacques
The Damnation game by Clive barker...also Galiee, Imajics.
Hp. Love Craft...
Homer...
Dante
Dr Seus...on the loose
Plato
H.G. wells
Dickens
For whom the bell tolls: Hemingway
Ok, I'll stop now, as, well.