gleanings on the subject of reading

"It is difficult -- and diminishing -- to separate the self who writes from the one who reads. Both acts belong to the communion of the word, which is a writer's life." Patricia Hampl

Over on beth_bernobich's lj, she talks about books she loves to pieces, with comment thread for yours.

The Other Half of the Sky, a collection of space opera stories with women protagonists that sounds AWESOME.

Today/tonight is World Book Night/Day. I don't have a bunch of books to give away, but if I did, I'd have the first collected volume of Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites.

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Some books I have literally loved to pieces (and then bought new editions):

Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy and her Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Tanith Lee's Don't Bite the Sun and Drinking Sapphire Wine

Diana Wynne Jone's Archer's Goon

Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog