Link Crazy Post -Ensues-.....(grown-up word of the week)
I was trolling come on! I'm not a troll!. I was messin' round on the web, visiting some of my favorite book blogs when Saw this quiz on Rebecca's blog, who got it from this blog.
" Your responses showed you fitting equally into all four reading personalities:
Involved Reader: You don't just love to read books, you love to read about books. For you, half the fun of reading is the thrill of the chase - discovering new books and authors, and discussing your finds with others.
Exacting Reader: You love books but you rarely have as much time to read as you'd like - so you're very particular about the books you choose.
Serial Reader: Once you discover a favorite writer you tend to stick with him/her through thick and thin.
Eclectic Reader: You read for entertainment but also to expand your mind. You're open to new ideas and new writers, and are not wedded to a particular genre or limited range of authors. "
I don't totally agree with the last for me, I definitely don't read to expand my mind, just for pure entertainment.
I used to read a lot of romances. Lots of romances. Between the ages of 25 to 39 I read so many romances. There were of course some that I hated because the heroines were just so lame. There were historical romances, contemporary...my favorite were the midevial (I know I'm spelling that wrong) romances, though I did enjoy books written in the time period of the 1700's or 1800's. I even enjoyed the occasiional cowboy romance. Then my tastes began refining to romances with more plot and humor than actual "romance". Some of my favorite authors were Julie Garwood, Catherine Coulter, Lynne Kurland, Teresa Medieros and the occassional LaVerle Spencer and some Linda Lael Miller {interesting bit here- Linda Lael Miller wrote a few vampire books in the early 1990's, way before the current explosion of vampire romance books. Might have been ahead of her time there I used to have one- didn't read it and gave it away}. You cannot read a romance without some purple prose though, and I always skimmed through that part because it was just so....awkward. The euphemisms for body parts are ....purple prose worthy, and very corny. Then about the time that my marriage hit a rough spot (as a lot of marriages do at times) I lost my fondness for romances. Rough spots in a marriage, "true love" and purple prose in books are not a good combination for me. I do still occasionally read a book from Julie Garwood, Lynne Kurland, Teresa Medieros, or Catherine Coulter. Not all their books, but the occasional book-possibly one or two a year. They are pretty good writers after all, all of them have used humor and fairly good dialogue in their books. Most of the authors I've mentioned have branched out to contemporary fiction as well as mysteries, and some paranormal. I read so many romances that when I moved time before last I boxed up 8 or more boxes along with numerous bags of romance books from a wide variety of writers and took them to a thrift shop. That was a lot of books.
About that time I found some books that featured witches and stuff like that. More fantasy, or fairy tale stories. I discovered writers like Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip, R.A. Salvatore, Ed Greene (Greenburg?) {I seriously can't remember this guy's name. I know there was Green in there somewhere, and he wrote a few books- one was about a kingdom threatened by ...something- plants?no-evil things?...there might have been a dragon in it. For sure, there was a knight, a princess and magic - I just described a thousand books.} , Sharon Shinn, Robin Hobb, Tanya Huff and David Duncan. There were more, but some of them are obviously forgettable, or I'm just losing memories. My favorites are Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip, and Tanya Huff. Sharon Shinn and Robin Hobb are also very, extremely good writers. Along the way I found the best satirist/fantasy writer ever, Terry Pratchett of the Discworld fame. I think he is the Best Writer Ever. Better than Stephen King. (his dialogue is way better. If they were to have a dialogue-off, Terry Prathcett would win, I don't care if SK writes horror, and Terry Pratchett writes fantasy, Mr. (Sir) Pratchett's dialogue is WAY better. {Again, this is my opinion- don't shoot me with those virtual bullets now.}) Reading Terry Pratchett led me to find out about Neil Gaiman, who is also full of wonderful words. Then I found a book at a library sale called Bloody Bones, got caught up in that whole series and then found authors like Kim Harrison, Kelley Armstrong, Lilith Saintcrow, Ilona Andrews......(there's is a lot of great writers out there) along with some of the newer writers like Devon Monk, Suzanne Mcleod and the up and coming Karen Mahoney. I haven't mentioned all the writers I read here, there are more.
My original point of this post is to say that though my main reading is in the urban fantasy/sci-fi areas I came across a contest for one of Linda Lael Miller's books and out of nostalgia I entered it. I won an ARC of The Bridegroom. The face is kind of.........cute, love that scruffy look. So this is what I'll be reading the next few days.
I know it's going to have a HEA, but that's okay once in a while, just not too often. And the cover is .......cute and scruffy (ugh...he's probably young enough to be my OLDEST son.....ughhh -I'm going to have to start reading about "mature" couples---naah I'll stick to horror and urban fantasy).
Speaking of HEA's, if you haven't visited the SciFiGuy's blog, you should. Especially for this video.
" Your responses showed you fitting equally into all four reading personalities:
Involved Reader: You don't just love to read books, you love to read about books. For you, half the fun of reading is the thrill of the chase - discovering new books and authors, and discussing your finds with others.
Exacting Reader: You love books but you rarely have as much time to read as you'd like - so you're very particular about the books you choose.
Serial Reader: Once you discover a favorite writer you tend to stick with him/her through thick and thin.
Eclectic Reader: You read for entertainment but also to expand your mind. You're open to new ideas and new writers, and are not wedded to a particular genre or limited range of authors. "
I don't totally agree with the last for me, I definitely don't read to expand my mind, just for pure entertainment.
I used to read a lot of romances. Lots of romances. Between the ages of 25 to 39 I read so many romances. There were of course some that I hated because the heroines were just so lame. There were historical romances, contemporary...my favorite were the midevial (I know I'm spelling that wrong) romances, though I did enjoy books written in the time period of the 1700's or 1800's. I even enjoyed the occasiional cowboy romance. Then my tastes began refining to romances with more plot and humor than actual "romance". Some of my favorite authors were Julie Garwood, Catherine Coulter, Lynne Kurland, Teresa Medieros and the occassional LaVerle Spencer and some Linda Lael Miller {interesting bit here- Linda Lael Miller wrote a few vampire books in the early 1990's, way before the current explosion of vampire romance books. Might have been ahead of her time there I used to have one- didn't read it and gave it away}. You cannot read a romance without some purple prose though, and I always skimmed through that part because it was just so....awkward. The euphemisms for body parts are ....purple prose worthy, and very corny. Then about the time that my marriage hit a rough spot (as a lot of marriages do at times) I lost my fondness for romances. Rough spots in a marriage, "true love" and purple prose in books are not a good combination for me. I do still occasionally read a book from Julie Garwood, Lynne Kurland, Teresa Medieros, or Catherine Coulter. Not all their books, but the occasional book-possibly one or two a year. They are pretty good writers after all, all of them have used humor and fairly good dialogue in their books. Most of the authors I've mentioned have branched out to contemporary fiction as well as mysteries, and some paranormal. I read so many romances that when I moved time before last I boxed up 8 or more boxes along with numerous bags of romance books from a wide variety of writers and took them to a thrift shop. That was a lot of books.
About that time I found some books that featured witches and stuff like that. More fantasy, or fairy tale stories. I discovered writers like Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip, R.A. Salvatore, Ed Greene (Greenburg?) {I seriously can't remember this guy's name. I know there was Green in there somewhere, and he wrote a few books- one was about a kingdom threatened by ...something- plants?no-evil things?...there might have been a dragon in it. For sure, there was a knight, a princess and magic - I just described a thousand books.} , Sharon Shinn, Robin Hobb, Tanya Huff and David Duncan. There were more, but some of them are obviously forgettable, or I'm just losing memories. My favorites are Robin McKinley, Patricia McKillip, and Tanya Huff. Sharon Shinn and Robin Hobb are also very, extremely good writers. Along the way I found the best satirist/fantasy writer ever, Terry Pratchett of the Discworld fame. I think he is the Best Writer Ever. Better than Stephen King. (his dialogue is way better. If they were to have a dialogue-off, Terry Prathcett would win, I don't care if SK writes horror, and Terry Pratchett writes fantasy, Mr. (Sir) Pratchett's dialogue is WAY better. {Again, this is my opinion- don't shoot me with those virtual bullets now.}) Reading Terry Pratchett led me to find out about Neil Gaiman, who is also full of wonderful words. Then I found a book at a library sale called Bloody Bones, got caught up in that whole series and then found authors like Kim Harrison, Kelley Armstrong, Lilith Saintcrow, Ilona Andrews......(there's is a lot of great writers out there) along with some of the newer writers like Devon Monk, Suzanne Mcleod and the up and coming Karen Mahoney. I haven't mentioned all the writers I read here, there are more.
My original point of this post is to say that though my main reading is in the urban fantasy/sci-fi areas I came across a contest for one of Linda Lael Miller's books and out of nostalgia I entered it. I won an ARC of The Bridegroom. The face is kind of.........cute, love that scruffy look. So this is what I'll be reading the next few days.
I know it's going to have a HEA, but that's okay once in a while, just not too often. And the cover is .......cute and scruffy (ugh...he's probably young enough to be my OLDEST son.....ughhh -I'm going to have to start reading about "mature" couples---naah I'll stick to horror and urban fantasy).
Speaking of HEA's, if you haven't visited the SciFiGuy's blog, you should. Especially for this video.