Honeymoon at the Hilton by Stephen B. Cooper

I’m currently reading From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming, Lock In by John Scalzi, Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie, Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett, Burmese Days by George Orwell, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe and LOTR by Tolkein with my little boy at bedtime. I review everything I’ve read and I’m shooting for a goal of 100 books this year. I still read as much as I possibly can, I’m a member of a real life and online bookclub as well as being a very healthy Goodreads member. I had read classics like Dickens, Thackery & Shakespeare before I started secondary school and my English Lit teacher used to let me read my own books within the open set book as he knew that a) I’d already read it and b) I could answer intelligently about it. I tore through the Redwall series by Brian Jacques and with my library card clutched in hand began to explore the sci fi and fantasy section of my library starting off with writers like Greg Bear & Piers Anthony. I devoured all the usual childhood classics especially things like the Famous Five, Secret Seven, Swallows & Amazons. It’s not something anyone in my family really does but I think being an only child until my late teens meant that I found adventure and friends in books.

I can’t remember not ever being a reader. Thanks for stopping in to chat with me today, Claire. As usual, we will put my comments/questions in BLUE and Claire will be in GREEN. This week on Meet the Author Monday, we have Claire Buss, whose dystopian debut, “ The Gaia Effect” was launched in December of 2016.

Honeymoon at the Hilton by Stephen B. Cooper