Reading
Reading
For the longest time I have neglected to read anything more than the technical manuals and whitepapers required to advance my career as a Computer Analyst/Programmer. For a longer time, I have felt the desire to write and even though I know it is important for a writer to always be reading, I have neglected that activity too, for what reason I am not entirely sure. There are a lot of classic works of fiction and biography that I have never read or if I did, it was in high school or college and I don't remember much about those works as I didn't see the point of reading them at the time and so didn't create the need and neurological connections to retain the information therein.
You'll note that there are some authors listed for whom I haven't included any works. This is because I'm not ready to start reading them yet and when I am, I'll add a list of works to circumnavigate. These are generally authors who are recommended by other writers.
Going into 2009, I set myself a rather vague goal to read more and the list below is a starting point for this reading effort.
- Fiction
- Aristophones
- Babel, Isaac
- Elliot, George
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- The Great Gatsby
- Homer
- Johnson, Samuel
- Joyce, James
- Montaigne, Michel de
- Munro, Alice
- Nesbit, E.
- The Railway Children (01/18/2009 - )
- Ovid
- Schulz, Bruno
- Travers, Pamela Lyndon
- Yates, Richard
- Non-fiction
- 808 PRO Reading Like a Writer, Prose, Francine (01/11/2009 - )
