tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post6293252281721140783..comments2024-03-29T04:12:48.987+08:00Comments on The Reading Life: "Man Of Books" by Heather Fowler (From People With Holes, 2012)Mel uhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-64445258728326974412015-04-07T22:48:26.327+08:002015-04-07T22:48:26.327+08:00Thank you for sharing your thoughts about an autho...Thank you for sharing your thoughts about an author who is "new" to me. I am intrigued.<br /><br />However, let me focus on your threshold question. I am what someone has called an "intensive" rather than "extensive" reader. In other words, when I stumble upon a work that I like, I tend to become a fanatic who cannot rest until I have read all of the author's works. In the distant past of my reading life, my fanaticism led me to pursue an eclectic reading list: Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan Doyle, Colin Dexter, Harold Bloom, William Blake, Willa Cather, and Kate Chopin. More recently -- in the past decade or so -- Flannery O'Connor and David McCullough have been the "go to" authors for me. <br /><br />In short, I understand the obsessive need to "consume" everything by an author, and I wish you well in your pursuit of Heather Fowler.R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.com