Sunday, April 11, 2010

Monday: Mailbox/Musings/Whereabouts

Musing Mondays2
What elements do you think lands a book in that ‘best’ category? Think of your top 5 best books and tune in next week to see the collated list.

For the best book category, there has to be some criterias. I think, great story line, good plotting, wonderful charactisation and plausible settings are essential. It has to hold interest till the end and also long after reading it.

I like to talk about good books to anyone who can listen to me. Mostly perfect strangers. It gives me high if someone buys a book on my recommendations.

I don't believe I can list 5 best books. I have too many in my list. However, in the recent weeks, I read the following great books:

The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

Mind you these are only two books out of too many!

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Monday Mailbox is hosted by Marcia.

I did not receive anything this past week.

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In the past week:
I finished:

The Cutting by James Hayman
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

I am in midst of
none

I posted reviews of:

The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers
at

12 comments:

  1. bermudaonionApril 11, 2010 at 10:55 PM

    It is hard to name just 5 books that you love, isn't it? My book week was slow and I think next week will be even slower.

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  2. StaciApril 12, 2010 at 12:31 AM

    I'll be reading the Murderer's Daughters next week...can't wait!

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  3. caiteApril 12, 2010 at 12:55 AM

    I loved the two books you listed, although they would not make my top 5, and I agree it is very hard to pick.

    But I gave it A GO! lol

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  4. Brooke from The Bluestocking GuideApril 12, 2010 at 5:03 AM

    I'm going to have to read this set.

    Here is mine

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  5. AnonymousApril 12, 2010 at 6:34 AM

    I'm glad that you enjoyed The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo. I personally found it a great disappointment, but I know I'm in a huge minority.

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  6. Stan SkiApril 12, 2010 at 10:26 AM

    About time I visited...
    The last novel I read (a few weeks ago) was The Tesseract by Alex Garland - author of The Beach.

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  7. pussrebootsApril 12, 2010 at 11:08 AM

    I received one book last week and none the previous week. My post is here.

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  8. Beth(bookaholicmom)April 12, 2010 at 7:17 PM

    My mailbox has been slow also but that's okay. I am using the time to catch up on the books that are here. Have a great week!

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  9. LoriApril 12, 2010 at 8:26 PM

    I can't list 5, the others will get jealous. [Here's Mine].

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  10. fredamansApril 12, 2010 at 9:23 PM

    Here is my mailbox; http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2010/04/in-my-mailbox_10.html

    and my musing; http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2010/04/musing-best-books.html

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  11. SukoApril 13, 2010 at 12:10 AM

    I read the first in Larsson's trilogy, but not the second one yet. Actually, I started it a few months ago but didn't get very far into the book. With your recommendation now, I am more apt to pick it up again, sooner rather than later.

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  12. SerenaApril 13, 2010 at 7:25 PM

    sounds like you've been busy reading...wow...and just those 2 books...fantastic.

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