Reading and Writing

I remain interested in reading and writing, though I haven't posted much on those subjects recently.  Here are links to my book blog and to my previous posts on reading and writing.  Favorite novels of mine include Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, the Harry Potter series, The Lord of the Rings, the Dune series, Jane Austen's novels, and Anna Karenina.  My discovery of some of those novels dates back to junior high, and some are more recent discoveries for me.  I read a lot of non-fiction these days, although some of those books can be a hard slog.  I read a biography of Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg that I really enjoyed a few years back, which kind of started me on my non-fiction kick.  One of my favorite books as a kid was an illustrated journey through the solar system, though I haven't been able to re-create that experience of reading a book over and over again as an adult.