MissMohawk

Oh thank you. I wasn't aware. I have just requested to join.

I always loved Murder She Wrote. I watched it as a child and right up til now. I'm named Jessica because of that show 😁

A most relaxing morning. I have a college assignment to work on so I will be doing that for a few hours. Hopefully I will get another hour of reading in afterwards. Then I will probably watch a few episodes of Supernatural or Walker or both 😁

Cherish

Yearn

I'm currently reading A Discovery of Witches. It is only in the past year or so that I have varied my reading, I used to read mainly crime fiction. I am in love with this book 😍 it just makes me smile. It is so brilliantly written, the images that I conjure up while reading are just magical (excuse the pun 😅). I get utterly lost in it and forget the world around me.

I thought that would be much easier but the number one character that comes to my mind is Edmond Dantes. Will Trent, Robert Hunter, Carlos Garcia definitely (Karin Slaughter and Chris Carter) I have several characters that would be from the TV version of the books so having not read the books I won't include them (the characters from my mind never match the TV versions so that wouldn't be the same) Hmmm... 🤔 Who else....

I always remember the first full book I ever read and enjoyed was Toilet Terror. I was probably around 10 and read it for a read a book competition we used to have in school.

Different Chris Carter. Creator of Robert Hunter. https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/authors/Chris-Carter/65784651

I just pre ordered Chris Carter's latest book Genesis. I've read all his books and loved them all. Really looking forward to this one too.

Hi Jimmy, You are very welcome here. Look forward to engaging with you on here.

I have, No. 7 and Gentleman Jack, I prefer Gentleman Jack over No. 7.

A pour of Buffalo Trace for me this fine evening.

I'm still reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I have about 1/5 left to read. I am really enjoying it. Admittedly, I got a bit lost at one stage during it so I sat it down for about a week, then picked it back up again.

I've turned into a forum lurker even though I am a new member. I want to interact more but I find it difficult to. I'm a slow reader and find I have little time to read so it can sometimes take me a good while to get through a book, so unless I post that I am reading the same book over and over again, I have little to say 😂 I look at the forum on mobile, which isn't always the best way to see everything but, I will probably continue to use mobile anyway. I came to forums because I dislike Facebook so much, it's a toxic environment. I am on another forum and tend to be more active on that, it isn't a book forum. On that forum there is a bit more image sharing (mainly on topic, off topic ones tend to be minimal and go in off topic sections). You can react with a like to posts also. Sometimes it is little things like that that can encourage more interaction. Anyway, instead of telling others how to encourage more activity, I think I shall instead endeavour to become a more active member by posting more and getting better acquainted with navigating the forum.

I wasn't aware Irish horses were any different or any more gorgeous than horses from elsewhere 😁 perhaps it's the good Irish soil.

I know you said Matt Shaw, but you mentioned previously in a post Edward Lee. Any chance it is Flesh Gothic?

Please do let me know if that is in fact the book you are looking for, if not we can try again. 😁

Hi, Any chance it could be J. A. Konrath's horror novel Trapped? A blind, deaf, mute and limbless man being kept as a pet...

I just googled it and found A Hundred Pieces of Me by Lucy Dillon, is that what you are looking for?

Many fiction books can enrich your knowledge. Fictional stories can still teach you a great deal, about people, places, era's. Well written books can enhance your knowledge of language. Although the events and characters are fictional there can be a lot of reality in the story too. For non fiction, a good book for me depends on the subject and what I expect to get from it. A good book on something technical for instance, is written in a way that makes you understand the subject. The language can be matter of fact. A good factual book based on history, would again be different for me and depends on why I am reading it, whether it is for study or for pleasure. If reading it for pleasure then I would define a good book as one that is easy to read (as in the words flow well together) and keeps me interested in the subject. For fiction, a good book can be many different things again for me. Classics have beautiful language, words that are no longer used, and they allow for great use of your own imagination to conjure up the images of the story in your head. If you like, compare it to modern 4k movies, where the image is so vivid and spectacular, and the color pops and the visual effects are amazing, that to me is what Classics are but the visuals are done with language rather than technology. Crime fiction, good books again are well written, good plots, ones where you get attached or even attracted to the characters because of how they are described and how you picture them in your head. Thrillers where you try predict what happens next but you never expected what comes next. Stories where you just cannot put the book down because you are so invested in knowing the rest of the story. Good books draw you in, rouses your emotions and leaves you reeling when it's over.

Hello everyone, I'm new here. I have always liked reading but I have recently started to expand on the type of books that I read. For many years I was reading crime fiction and not much else. Favourite authors being Chris Carter and Karin Slaughter. Very recently I decided to pick up some different types of books and to my surprise a whole new world opened up. I recently flew though Pride and Prejudice and really enjoyed it. I just finished The Call of the Wild and although it was short it was brilliant. I am currently about a third of the way through The Count of Monte Cristo. I am a physical paper book kind of person.