I’ve decided to share my finds and the excellent reviews of my fellow book bloggers each Monday. Leave a comment with a link to your post or a trackback if you decide to play along.
The seventh book to catch my eye in my book blog browsing was The Hob’s Bargain by Patricia Briggs reviewed by Lynn over at Paperback Writer.
What caught my attention?
When I’m not reading book blogs, I’m reading author blogs. Lynn Viehl has written 40 books. Think about that for a minute: 40 books. So when she had this to say about The Hob’s Bargain, I was curious:
The Hob’s Bargain was a quiet landmark in my writing life. Just as I was really being trampled by the indifferent hooves of publishing’s herd and hoopla, it reminded me that this is what writing books should be about: creating great stories to delight the unsuspecting reader. It was also the first book I put on what would become my writer’s writers shelf.
There are books that inspire us, and then there are books that save us. This one did both for me.
I have a collection of books that I keep to inspire me to write. Some of them I keep because they are very, very bad (there’s hope for me) and some of them I keep because they are very, very good (I want to write like these people). I prefer to add to the second pile. And who knows, maybe one day I’ll get to live in a parallel universe like Lynn does:
If you’d told me in 2001 that someday a quote from me would appear on the cover, I’d have laughed myself into the hiccups. In what parallel universe could something like that ever happen?
Go read the whole story of what this book means to Lynn as both a reader and a writer.
