{"id":162,"date":"2008-08-19T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2008\/08\/19\/authors-and-illustrators-tell-us-what-youre-reading\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T08:16:00","slug":"authors-and-illustrators-tell-us-what-youre-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Authors and Illustrators: Tell Us What You’re Reading!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I’m asking ShelfTalker readers to tell the world what it is they’re reading "for pleasure" these days. In yesterday’s post<\/a> I asked booksellers, librarians, and teachers to chime in. Tomorrow I’ll be asking the same of folks in publishing. Today, though, is reserved for responses from authors and illustrators. What are you folks currently reading?<\/p>\n

To get the ball rolling with your group, I asked the author\/illustrator at my house (how convenient!) to tell us what he’s reading. Gareth Hinds<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

"I’m in the middle of The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves<\/a><\/em> (an advance reader’s copy). Like the first volume I find it exceedingly well-written, well-researched, full of serious ideas, and intellectually stimulating. I don’t really find it to be a page-turner, though there is more action than in the first book. The last graphic novel I read was the exquisite rumination on mortality, The Three Shadows<\/a><\/em> by Cyril Pedrosa."<\/p>\n

Okay, fellow authors and illustrators, now it’s your turn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, I’m asking ShelfTalker readers to tell the world what it is they’re reading “for pleasure” these days. In yesterday’s post I asked booksellers, librarians, and teachers to chime in. Tomorrow I’ll be asking the same of folks in publishing. Today, though, is reserved for responses from authors and illustrators. What are you folks currently reading? To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}