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Who is your favourite author?
I enjoy Agatha Christie and Robert Parker. I am coming to like the work of Ace Atkins as well. I like fast moving, books without a lot of silly word smithing going on. Just get to the point. For that reason, while I like movies made of Jane Austen's books, I am no fan of her writing.
I like Dickens and enjoyed David Copperfield and my all time favorite is A Christmas Carol, so I have to add Charles Dickens as a favorite as well.
What was the last book you read?
I re-read books I like over and over again.
The latest re-read is Paul F. Boller, Jr.'s Presidential Wives, an Anecdotal History.
What book reminds you of your school days?
Dick and Jane reader which my school hung onto long after other schools dropped them.
Also the biography of George Washington Carver.
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What book releases are you looking forward to?
I don't keep up with that, so I really don't know what is coming up. Well, now wait.. on further thought, I would like to read another Spenser novel. Though Robert Parker passed on, Ace Atkins did a novel for him in the Parker style and hit it dead on! I would love to have a new Jesse Stone or Spenser novel. Oh,yes indeed!
What movie releases are you looking forward to?
None that I know of right now. I've been watching free movies on YouTube lately, mostly disaster movies about comets, earthquakes ,floods and volcanoes and enjoying them a lot.
Also have watched the original Peyton Place and really enjoyed that.
I like old movies much more than the new stuff.
What 3 books are you planning to read?
I am not planning to read anything. I spend time reading about anthropology, history, etc. I read most of the day but, not novels. I read something if the cover calls to me or something about the book grabs my attention.
Have you ever damaged a book?
Yes I have, but that was through reading and re-reading it.
How long does it take you to read a book?
Depends on the book. If its awful and boring .. forever. If I like it.. hours.
Books you haven’t finished?
Ah, the list would be extremely long and boring. I never liked to read as a kid and used to find it a waste of time when I could have been outside playing.
Now comic books like Archie were a different story. I liked them and read them every chance I got!
No, I wasn't doing bad in school. I was a straight A student by the time I graduated, but I just never liked reading. I think it was the books we were forced to read:
Silas Marner..UGH!!
Great Expectations... YUK.. ptooey.. spit.. gag.
Now, mind you, these are my 7th and 8th grade opinions of these books. But I won't bother with them now either. Just can't get interested. It left a bad taste.
By high school, we had to read Shakespeare and memorize two soliloquies from each play. I didn't mind that at all. So four years reading Shakespeare was not bad and though not terribly enjoyable, not awful either.
If I like a book, I finish it.
Popular books you didn’t like?
I've not read too many "popular" books. Could not be bothered with Harry Potter or Twilight or that ilk and I don't know of anything else.
Is there a book you wouldn’t tell people you were reading?
No. why would I? If you are thinking 50 Shades of Gray.. I wouldn't bother with it as reviewers say it is very badly written. If it were well written,that would be another story. I would prefer an autobiography on the subject however, as that would interest me. I like to delve into the why and wherefore or people's interests and habits and to know why people do what they do, like what they like, etc, I will research things to death.
I read what interests me or what I am researching or learning at the moment. I don't care what others think.
How many books do you own?
Several hundred mostly hard cover books and many of them biography, history, scholarly works that I enjoy a lot.
Are you a fast or slow reader?
It depends on what I am reading. If it is technical or intricate I will read things over a few times before moving on.
Do you read better in your head our out loud?
Either way. I read well.
Interesting questions and comments, smiles.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a lovely Sunday my friend, smiles
Bro---ther, Im with you on Great Expectations.. I thought it was horrid.. nevert did get past the first chapter.. LIke you, as well, I love to re-read my Lynn Kurland books because I can not find anything I like as well!!!
ReplyDeleteI like the rather seamless way that Ace Atkins has picked up for Robert B. Parker, too. I love Spenser and Hawk so much that I'm glad my time with them will continue.
ReplyDeleteLove them and wish it goes on for a long, long time.
DeleteSilas Marner. The pain was real. And excruciating.
ReplyDeleteI too wouldn't read Great Expectations not now or when I was young. Another book I was never able to get into was War and Peace. Give me a good mystery of the old genre and I'm happy. 😊 Have a blessed day ahead dear Annie.
ReplyDeleteSilas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.
ReplyDeleteThe book was so ponderously slow with the repetitive sounds that when I sat down at the loom at Old World Wisconsin, a museum of nineteenth century agriculture, put my feet on the treadle, left hand on the shuttle and started weaving. Had to be reminded to use the clack clack (squincher-downer thingy) but I was a natural.
It seems an affront to one who loves to read , to be forced to wade through such "literature" ! If the story doesn't welcome me in , it's not really worth my time...regardless of its designation of a Great Work...phooey ! I do enjoy those that capture your interest , to the extent you can't put it down and realize , at the end , that not only has it been wonderful , but that the sun has just risen !! A very good read !
ReplyDeleteTake care , my friend !