I didn’t think I would be a fan of absurdity and satire until Askaripour’s novel showed me how it could be done in a way that is innovative, smart, biting, and timely. Happily, the books that I am asked to read become books that I want to read, as I discovered when I read Mateo Askaripour’s Black Buck earlier this year. I get to read some great books way before they hit the shelves, books like Neruda on the Parkby Cleyvis Natera, Brother Alive by Zain Khalid, The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan, and The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela. What that means (because I am, by nature, a slow reader) is that I have to delay reading the books that I purchased to read as part of my favorite pastime, and my “To Be Read” (TBR) pile grows taller and taller by the minute because I continue to buy the books I want to read as I am reading the books I’m asked to read. I also read the books of authors whom I will be in conversation with for book tours and other events. 2021 was the first year in which I read books as a published author and I realized that there is a distinct difference between reading books as an average reader and as someone whose own book is now out in the world.įirst, I no longer have time for “pleasure reading.” I receive many requests to read other authors’ books to possibly provide a blurb.
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