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Follow Friday, is hosted by ParaJunkee, Book Blogger Hop, is hosted by Jennifer (Crazy-For-Books), and
Follow Friday 40 and over is hosted by Java
Do feel free to explore my blog. You will definitely find something that interests you as I read wide range of genres, except maybe for a few. I also write poetry. You can read that on my other blog, rooted. Now go, explore both of my blogs! And follow them, if you like!! I follow blogs I like via Google Reader...
Enjoy!
Book Blurb:
When Eleanor Bellingham-Crump — a socialite responsible for the death of a ten-year-old boy — turns up murdered on the floor of a Hollywood hotel bathroom, Lomax and Biggs are confronted with a crime of artistic brutality. Along with the scissors impaled in Eleanor’s lifeless body, the two detectives find a meticulous scrapbook documenting a motive of vengeance in lurid detail.
Series? Or Stand-alone books?
Something like this was asked in BTT in September 2010. I will answer it in a similar vein. I prefer stand alone novels any day . I have read the Harry Potter series and also read all the three novels of the Millennium trilogy. These are exceptions than the rule.
One has to read series in the proper order.And that totally puts me off. It has to be VERY good series to pique my interest. And I also don't like to wait for the next book. For stand- alone novels, you can just pick it up, with no worries.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week, we get a theme to list our top tens.
This week is all about Top Ten Bookish Pet Peeves!
Now how do I list those? Let me start:
1) I don't like long paragraphs. Some go on and on. Prime example being War and Peace. Although I did like the book after that bad start.
2) Un-necessary use of similes and metaphors. It takes away from the story
3) Too many characters introduced and they don't make sense after a while.
4) Book blurbs not doing justice to the content.
5) Obnoxious covers which do nothing for the novel
6) Wrong grammar. I can't stand it.
7) Use of Slang language. I want to throw the book!
8) Neat endings where everything is tied up! Too neat gets my goat!
9) When the plot gets blurred. In some novels, one loses the plot and it doesn't make sense any more, what the author is trying to say.
10) Movie covers! That is a guarantee that I won't pick that particular book!
What about yours?
"They've been using the money to fund eco-terrorism. Paying for safe houses. Guns. Bombs."
~Page 210
Title: Out At Night
Author: Susan Arnout Smith
ISBN: 978-0007275519
Publisher: Minotaur Books/2009
Pages: 283
When Professor Thaddeus Bartholomew is being chased by a killer, he has no time other other than type a text message with the name of Grace Descanso, before he is killed. He is found in a soy field, with a crossbow shot in his chest.
Grace, is a crime-scene tech and is on a vacation with her daughter. FBI has no compunctions about getting in touch with her. Grace has only a vague recollection of the Prof and does not understand his last text before his death. Her Uncle Pete, who is in the FBI does not want her to walk away.
When she starts the investigations in her own way, she finds her family involved in it. And the genetically modified soy is only a scratch in the surface. And the Prof. murder is not a random act! there are politicians, and agriculturists involved. It is always question of money.
Out At Night is very real. In the sense that by modifying our plant life, we are playing God, creating havoc for the nature, for humanity. The initial want of better yields, has given way to destruction, power and money. We need to tackle those questions.
What is the last book you bought? Was it for you? for someone else? Have you read it, yet?
The last book I bought was The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. I bought it for myself and yes I have finished reading it. Click on the title to read my review of it.
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I completed one novel, Out At Night by Susan Arnout Smith. Will post the review in a couple of days!
This weeks Weekly Geeks' asks:
Tell us ten things about you with regard to books and reading. Let your imagination run wild!
I am listing ten bookish things about myself, in no particular order:
1) I inherited my reading from both my parents. My dad was into Science stuff, my mom into short stories. And I can read anything.
2) I read a lot of poetry, from classics to contemporary.
3) I always use a bookmark.
5) I can't read in bed, although I do read lying down on the couch in the living room.
6) I can read anywhere, except by travelling in a car or bus. (No, I don't read in the bathroom either!!)
7) Anywhere I go, the first thing I look up, is a bookstore. Used bookstores too.
8) I love the old libraries too. It makes me feel so much at ease.
9) I can't read e-books or listen to Audio ones. Love the good old paper ones.
10) Except for YA, I can read any genre, although nowadays, I am read more of Crime Fiction (which in itself contains a VAST genre)
"Anything Goes on Saturday" is a meme hosted by Yvonne of Socrates' Book Reviews. It's a chance to choose any topic you want and talk about it on Saturday - it can be about a book, TV show, movie, a recipe or just an update on your week. Whatever you choose.
Those of us, who have been blogging for more than 4 years, we all knew Dewey. Most of what we see in the book blog world is in fact, what Dewey wanted for us...the networking, the connections with each other. She left all of us, to be one with GOD, but is still there in our hearts.
Today, I am reproducing here, Dewey's Review Questionaire for all. I have used it in its entirity or part of it in many of my reviews. I find this very useful when I don't have much time to think. This questionaire has all the relevant questions which ought to be asked of any review.
Title and author of book:
Fiction or non-fiction? Genre?
What led you to pick up this book?
Plot summary:
What did you like most about the book?
What did you like least?
What did you think of the writing style?
Which of your readers are most likely to enjoy this book? Why?
Have you read any other books by this author? What did you think of those books?
What did you think of the main character?
What is the central character’s biggest problem?
How do you think he/she feels?
What strengths does she have that help her cope?
Do you know anyone who has been in the same situation?
What would you have done?
If you were his best friend, what advice would you give?
How would that help the situation?
8. What effect do the people in the book have on one another?
Any other particularly interesting characters?
Write a (physical, emotional, relational) description of three of the characters in the book.
Take two or three of the characters and write about their relationship to each other. How do they interact; who are they to each other?
If this book has been made into a movie, and if you’ve seen the movie, compare the book to the movie.:
Share a quote from the book:
Share a favorite scene from the book:
What did you think of the ending?
Do you recommend this book? If you use a rating system, what’s your rating?
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Feel free to use it but do mention Dewey. She is no longer there, her blog is no longer there, unless it is in your google reader, where all her posts are retained. But she lives on....
Publisher's Blurb
One cold morning, in the wind-lashed Swedish countryside, a man's body is found in an isolated garage. The victim has been shot in the head, and run over repeatedly by a car. Inspector Christian Tell, a world-weary detective with a chequered past, is called to the scene. But there are few clues to go by, and no one seems to be telling the truth. Then, a second brutal murder. The method is the same, but this victim has no apparent connection with the first. Tell's team is baffled. Seja, a reporter and witness, thinks a long-unsolved mystery may hold the key to the killings. Tell is drawn to Seja, but her prescence at the crime scene doesn't add up, and a relationship could jeopardise everything. For the inquiry to succeed, the community must yield the dark secrets of its past.
Follow Friday, is hosted by ParaJunkee, Book Blogger Hop, is hosted by Jennifer (Crazy-For-Books), and
Follow Friday 40 and over is hosted by Java
Jennifer asks, "Do you read only one book at a time, or do you have several going at once?"
I read several books at once. A poetry book, a crime fiction, a science book, and any other that takes my fancy.
Parajunkee asks, "How did you come up with your blog name?"
For me everything begins with reading and ends with reading. So that is how I named my blog.
Do feel free to explore my blog. You will definitely find something that interests you as I read wide range of genres, except maybe for a few. I also write poetry. You can read that on my other blog, rooted. Now go, explore both of my blogs! And follow them, if you like!! I follow blogs I like via Google Reader...
Enjoy!
