Category: Booking Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday

BTT – Hero/Heroine

Tara

Since I missed last week I’m going to actually answer both of the questions today.
1)Who is your favorite female lead character? And why?
~*~*~*~*~
2)You should have seen this one coming … Who is your favorite Male lead character? And why?
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
1) I’ll answer last week’s question first … it’s hard to narrow down my favorite female lead character. However, to answer the question ….. I like Iris Johansen’s Eve Duncan, Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, and Alex Kava’s Maggie O’Dell.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
2) Now, for the male characters … this one is a little easier for me, I guess I read more where the lead characters are men. Anyways, let’s see …. Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch, Jeffery Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme, Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter (!!), and P.J. Parrish’s Louis Kincaid.
It’s really funny that every character that I mentioned, male and female, are all part of a series! I realized that it turned out that way as soon as I got to Hannibal Lecter (my personal favorite!). I never realized that so much of my reading revolves around ongoing series’. Interesting. Anyways, have a good BTT everybody! (Even though I got to mine a little late tonight…)
Booking Through Thursday

BTT – Format

Tara

All other things (like price and storage space) being equal, given a choice in a perfect world, would you rather have paperbacks in your library? Or hardcovers? And why?
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
This is a really good question. I had my answer all typed up once and then realized that I was contradicting myself! So I’m going to try this one more time. I was going to say that I would prefer hardcover books. However, as I was typing it out and explaining the reasoning behind my answer, I realized that I was really leaning more towards paperbacks. So I’m in a quandary here. I want to answer hardcover and paperback both! So there’s my answer: I would have both. I couldn’t choose between one or the other. Each has it’s advantages in my opinion. On the side of the paperback, they’re smaller, lighter and easier to carry around. But to defend the hardcover, I feel that they open better for me and lay in a more comfortable way (at least for me they seem to). I always struggle with brand new paperbacks; I can never get them to open far enough and have yet to manage to break the spine without tearing all the pages out! However I can also put one in my purse and read during my free time throughout the day (not really an option with a hardcover unless I was carrying around one of those gigantic purses that seem to be in style nowadays).

So I’ve probably ruined the whole point of this question, choosing one over the other. But in my perfect library, I would have both. However, I must add that I would want to have all of the books that I wanted for my personal collection (those that I would be keeping forever) in hardcover whereas the books that came and went through my shelves would be paperbacks.

Booking Through Thursday

BTT – After the Honeymoon

Tara

Here’s something for Valentine’s Day:
Have you ever fallen out of love with a favorite author? Was the last book you read by the author so bad, you broke up with them and haven’t read their work since? Could they ever lure you back?
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I am slowly falling out of love with Stephen King. When I was in high school, I read a ton of his earlier works. Carrie, Firestarter, It, Insomnia, Rose Madder, Desperation, Misery, Pet Sematary, The Shining, the list goes on and on of what I read in high school. I just absolutely loved all of his books and read them like crazy! I could hardly wait to get my hands on the next one I could find. That being said, last year I read Lisey’s Story. I hated it. Plain and simple. Could not stand it. And all I could think of the whole time was … could he possibly get any stranger? And what’s so ironic about that question is that that is what really drew me to him in the first place. I liked his books because they were so unlike anything else I ever read. But with Lisey’s Story I just have no explanation with what happened. I still am not sure what the point of that book was supposed to be. It was just terrible for me. I would like to say that I am looking forward to his latest, Duma Key. But I’m simply not. I’ve read the blurb on the back of the book the last two times that I was in the bookstore, but I simply cannot make myself pick it up because I don’t want to spend the money on the hardcover version and then end up absolutely hating it. BUT … I’m not quite ready to throw in the towel yet. What I’m probably going to do is go back and read some of his older ones again, the ones that I loved so much in high school, and see if my opinion of those have changed as well. But I’m almost on the brink of giving up on his newer books.
Booking Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday

Tara

Okay, even I can’t read ALL the time, so I’m guessing that you folks might voluntarily shut the covers from time to time as well… What else do you do with your leisure to pass the time? Walk the dog? Knit? Run marathons? Construct grandfather clocks? Collect eggshells?

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

This is my first week doing the BTT! Here goes nothing: Other than reading, what do I do to pass my time? Hmm …

  1. I spend a lot (way too much, in fact) of time on the internet messing around with my blog here as well as on paperbackswap.
  2. I also belong to numerous Yahoo groups and get thousands of recipes in my email, so I love to go through those and see what new ones I can try.
  3. I also enjoy cooking. I like to experiment on my husband! Trust me, he appreciates it! Haha!
  4. Watching TV and movies. The only reality show I can stomach is American Idol. I generally prefer dramas over comedies.
  5. Spending some time with my husband. Between our work schedules time together is treasured. Unfortunately it’s not going to be getting any better, as he’s going to start a new job next week and will be commuting an hour each way until we can get moved and settled. And then I’ll be the one commuting an hour each way because I’m not leaving my job. So we really don’t see much of each other through the week, and any time we get together is very important to us.
  6. I like to organize my books. I know it sounds weird, but I like to alphabatize them every once in a while. I like to make lists; I am totally a Type A personality!
  7. I also like to play video games occasionally. I love my Wii! I also like to play Guitar Hero. I don’t play very often, though. I get sick of it really easily.
  8. And finally, I love to do word puzzles. I like to buy those big huge Puzzler’s Giant Books put out by PennyPress. Sometimes I even order backorders from them when I see a good deal!