As those of you who follow my Blog know, reading is a favourite hobby of mine and something which has been with me since I was small. Every Saturday Mom, Dad and I would walk to our local Library and take out our books for the week and several more when we were going away on holiday. Also any money I was given for my Birthday was spent on books and my Christmas list always had more books on it than anything (and still does!).
When I moved from the Children’s Library to the Main Library a whole new World opened up with different genres and I loved the romantic books and the History romance novels but now I cannot stand them!!
I got this book last year when I was at Waterstones spending my Birthday book vouchers and it was in the “Three for Two” section. I thought give it a try may be good. Well it wasn’t! I got to page 84 and I was bored, I skipped a few chapters and tried again and it was still very, very slow. I read the last chapter and thought no I am not going to finish this! I have a few other books in a similar vein and think I will be donating them to our local Charity Shop!! I think I am going to stick to mysteries and adventures.
Obviously as you grow your tastes change in many things but I think more so with books. Murder mysteries are definitely a favourite of mine, I love medical mysteries too like the Kathy Reichs books. I do love Historical novels but stories around factual events or Historical mysteries but then again I can read one and really enjoy it and then something similar and I don’t like it. I think it all depends upon the writer.
I have also found with some authors that I like one book of theirs and then try and read another one and really don’t like it! Have you got any authors like that? One of them for me was Philippa Gregory. I loved her book “The Other Boleyn Girl” but then tried to read another of her books and could not get on with it! You know that I love Stephen King books but I have never got on very well with his “Dark Tower” series.
Do you ever find as well that you love the series of one set of books but that not get on very well with the other series? I absolutely adore “The Hobbit” which I read was I was eleven but although I read “Lord of the Rings” and enjoyed it, it was not as good as The Hobbit for me.
I have quite a few books on my TBR shelf and I am going to take quite a few away with us when we go to Scotland in August.
This will be one of them because it is quite long. Youngest bought it for me at Christmas and I am sure it will be a fascinating look at our Late Queen’s life. When I have sorted my holiday books out I will show you what I am going to be reading! I have started a new book which I will show you on Friday for Book Club,
I got my work done this morning and I have been at Eldest’s since late morning and got his work done. I was hoping to get home as I have lots to do but I am now dog sitting!
I suspect Coco is not going to be impressed!
Happy Wednesday everyone, almost the weekend.
Hugs & Love, Susie, Coco & Honey! xxx
I like mysteries, true crime, sci-fi authors Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Ann McCaffrey. Stephen King books are just close enough to reality to be scary so I can’t read them when I’m alone and some I can’t read when I’m with people too! Medical mysteries are a fun read as well. I used to like romance books, but they are so predictable that they are boring unless they are woven into a good mystery. I like books that make me think and that are set in new-to-me places.
I loved The Hobbit but it’s been YEARS since I read it! I WAS loving the Agatha Raisin books but somehow puzzling keeps getting the best of me. You are such a cutie, Honey!