Post about books.

I'm a voracious reader, and so I'm going to talk about books for a little while now. You know how much of a bookworm I am? On Wednesday I picked up Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan at the library in the morning and returned it that afternoon when I finished it. The only thing that keeps me from reading more is that it's impossible to read and drive at the same time.

I often go on what I call "author binges" where I go to the library and get out everything they have that a particular author has written, even if it means straddling genres (fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and sci-fi, etc.). Recent author binges have included a slew of women authors, particularly Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, and Bharati Mukherjee, as well as J. M. Coetzee and David Sedaris (for funsies). I seem to be shifting into a more modern/post-modern science fiction theme, since I checked out stacks of Vonnegut and C. S. Lewis yesterday.

Reading right now: The Master of Petersburgh by J. M. Coetzee. I'm nearly done with it now and then I'll have to figure out what I'd like to start next. I think it's seriously affecting my writing, because whatever I set down is in the present tense.

One book I always carry with me is Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, because even in translation it's the most beautiful prose I've ever read.

What are your favorite books? What are you reading? What would you recommend?

Fic: The Long Run

Title: The Long Run
Characters/Pairings: Matt/Daphne
Rating: G
Word Count: 284
Disclaimer: I don't own any aspect of Heroes or its characters
Prompt:"I don't know about tomorrow, but the future is something I do know."
A/N: Just a repost of a little comment_fic I wrote a while ago.

( She worried. She always worried and always had. )