Freda Wild

Reading and Writing

I spend a great deal of time reading but feel I can never read fast enough to get through the waiting pile. I buy far more than I have time to read. How does one decide what to read and what to leave? I often go on friends' recommendations. If I respect the advisors opinion and /or we have similar tastes this usually leads me to a good book. Often one book leads to two or more others . In the past I could not afford to buy books. I had to borrow them from the library. Thank god for libraries. Now I can afford to buy I'm like a hungry kid in a sweet shop. Recently I bought half a dozen books from a charity shop. Then I logged onto Amazon and gorged myself. Last weekend whilst on a course in the south of France an English book shop was opened for the participants. I could barely carry my bargins away. Now Writers' Forum has so many brilliant reviews I'm in danger of needing what ever is the equivalent of stomach stapling. May be then I'll find the time to write, the lack of which I am always bemoaning.

posted by Victoria Wild @ 3:17 pm