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Reading Challenge Poll
Discussion: Your Favourite Place to Read
After some controversial discussion topics the last few times, how about a nice simple one? Basically, what’s your favourite place to read?
For me it’s on my bed in my bedroom. Not only is laying down and reading the least painful position for someone like me to be in it means I’m in my own little silent area. If I want to listen to music while reading I can. If I want to listen to nothing at all I can. When I’m alone I don’t have to argue about the volume of the TV/stereo/whatever, you see. Everything is under my control and I love it.
So what’s your favourite place to read? Why?
Your Shameless Book Self-Promotion Thread
Just like my blogger self-promotion thread I’ve decided to have a book self-promotion thread. Are you an author? Have a book out? Well, plug away in the comments below! Why should my readers and I read your book? Where is it available?
You can include up to three links in your comment if you like.
Look What Just Arrived! (#12)
Yes, I bought more books! And I received some for my birthday, which was on Sunday. So what are some of the new books I have?
- Thirst No.3 by Christopher Pike
- Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
- Darklight by Lesley Livingston
- Wake by Amanda Hocking
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Hidden by Sophie Jordan
The book I was most excited about out of all six of these was the one I got for my birthday: Emperor of Thorns. I actually just finished it today and there’ll be a review up soon. I don’t want to spoil anything, but Jorg is up to his usual tricks in the last book in the trilogy. Othello was a book I ordered from Amazon because I won a $20 gift card in one of The Masquerade Crew’s many contests. I used to hate Shakespeare but I find that when I read it on my own without analyzing every single line I quite enjoy it. Also: Iago is an awesome villain.
The other books I received were either second or third books in series, but Wake by Amanda Hocking is a completely new book to me. I’d seen it on bookstore shelves previously but was waiting to find a paperback version to give it a try. I’ve read it already and let’s just say I have mixed feelings about it.
Well, that’s what I’ve been reading lately. So what have you been reading? Do you see anything you like here?
Discussion: Your Favourite Genre
I know it’s a little early in the week for a discussion post, but I just feel like mixing things up a bit. So that’s why there’s a discussion for today and a review for tomorrow.
As you guys have noticed I read a wide variety of genres. However, if I had to pick my absolute favourite genre it would be historical fiction. When the right author tackles the right time period the results can be amazing. Take, for example, Colleen McCullough’s First Man in Rome series. It consists of massive 1000 page books but those huge page counts are needed to tell her story on that grand, epic scale I’ve come to adore. The same can be said for Pauline Gedge’s historical novels set in ancient Egypt. Truly, those are part of what started my obsession with ancient Egypt and they certainly kept my mind away from -40 weather on that cold, miserable Christmas.
That’s the thing about historical fiction: it’s very diverse. There are so many time periods authors can cover and so many people within those time periods. You can have completely made up characters, well known historical figures, obscure historical figures and/or fantastical elements. There is just so much potential.
So what I want to know now is this: What’s your favourite genre? Why? Do you have more than one?