Chris Eaton
In One Note, Gabriel Blackwell asks writers to talk about the book they are currently reading and why. One Note 010: Chris Eaton, Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm.
In One Note, I ask writers for just that: one note, a single paragraph, on what they’re reading right now.
Today’s note comes courtesy of Chris Eaton:
What a time to be asked that question! Embarrassingly, I decided to “reward” myself for finishing my third novel, which has taken me six or seven years, by returning to a guilty pleasure of my teens, re-entering The Wheel of Time series. I gave it up long ago because it seemed to be going nowhere, but I had heard that the original author, Robert Jordan, had died and they had hired someone else to finally wrap it up. So I started with what I thought was Jordan’s last (then realized there was another, which I skipped and read only the plot summary on Wikipedia), and am now reading the first by the usurper. I’m a fabulously slow reader, lingering over sentences for hours, so it’s kind of refreshing, in its own way, to read something that I can read the first sentence of every paragraph and skip the rest.
Chris Eaton is the author of two novels (The Inactivist, The Grammar Architect) and most recently a book of short fiction called Letters to Thomas Pynchon. Both his fiction and his music, recorded under the name Rock Plaza Central, have been studied academically in Canada and the US. He lives in Toronto.
