I like journals, so I would recommend May Sarton "At Seventy" or After the Stroke.
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
One I would NOT recommend--"My Stroke of Insight". Neuroscientist who had a stroke. Terrible writing.
wrod. Interesting story, but she couldn't tell it. Sometimes I wonder why certain books get so beloved.
(Takes off businessman's Stetson, for moment of silence.)
For as much effect as Leonard had on crime fiction and westerns and movies, his effect on science fiction is also notable. Wm. Gibson didn't really know how to plot out a full novel, so he just copied the structure of an Elmore Leonard book.
RIP
Thanks for giving us Jackie Brown, Mr. Leonard.
wrod. And "Out of Sight", and Raylan Givens.
Does anybody else read the Preston & Child books, specifically Agent Pendergast? I've read the first half-dozen or so, but then took a bit of a break (possibly while waiting for a next book to come out). Now there are a few out that I haven't read, so I thought I'd go backward a book or two to refamiliarize myself with the world and characters, but all of a sudden Agt Pendergast is such a Marty Stu. Anybody else have this problem? It's weird. I've always loved him (and this is just a couple/few years ago, not like when something you loved as a teenager sucks as an adult), I'm gonna be bummed if I can't get back in the story.