Detective qualities (from Booking Through Thursday)
1. Do you enjoy reading mysteries?
2. What's your favourite kind of mystery?
3. Do you like plenty of blood and guts, or do you prefer the details to be left to the reader's imagination?
4. Do you prefer mystery stories based in the author's time or in previous centuries?
5. Do you prefer mysteries based in your own country, or in distant lands?
6. Do you like to figure out the solution, or do you allow yourself to be carried away with the story?
I am very, VERY picky about what mystery books I read. As I've mentioned before (and will continue to do so until I take my last breath), I LOVE the Corinna Chapman series by Kerry Greenwood (btw, new book expected in October...still awaiting news). I like what I call 'intellectual mysteries' like Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series and Kerry Greenwood's Corinna Chapman series where the focus is mostly on solving the mystery and is adventurous but there isn't a lot of blood and gore. I loved the National Treasure movies so I have the books (Gates Family mysteries by Catherine Hapka) on my TBR. I have read some of the book-themed 'cozy mysteries' but I find them too fluffy for my tastes.
I have no preferences as to time period or locations. I read "Blind Justice" by Bruce Alexander, which is the first in the Sir John Fielding mysteries, set in 18th-century London and the age of the Bow Street Runners. I also have "Crocodile on the Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters (first in the Amelia Peabody series) on my TBR and I've heard that that series is set predominantly in Egypt. The Corinna Chapman series is set in Australia. As long as the book is well-written, I'm usually capable of getting into it no matter what time period or location it is set in.
To the best of my knowledge, I have never solved the mystery before the end of the book. I do try sometimes but I don't put too much effort into it, generally just enjoying the story. I do like being surprised by an ending, but I hope for all the various plot threads to come together in the end.
Coffee Table Books (from Booking Through Thursday)
1. Do you have any coffee table books?
2. Do you have one or two, or would you say you have a collection of them?
3. Do you keep them on your coffee table? If not, where?
4. What are they about?
5. Have you read them? All of them? None? Why?
I live in too small of an apartment to have a coffee table but if I did have one, I would have coffee table books. It is because of the size of coffee table books that I don't buy them...yet. If I have enough time when browsing in a physical bookstore, I eventually get to browse the coffee table book section. I would like to buy coffee table books about astronomy, nature photography, travel photography, and tattoos. I would love to have "The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World" by Jacques Bosser. I would read them but in small snippets at a time. But I think that the main appeal of coffee table books is the illustrations and photographs.
Read on,
Paula
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