BTT: Detective Qualitites

Hosted by: Booking through Thursday Most people I know enjoy some sort of mystery stories. My mother-in-law loved police and courtroom procedurals. My mother likes detective fiction. There are also murder mysteries, general mysteries, and hard-boiled detective stories, with protagonists such as Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Amelia...

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BTT: Series

Hosted by: Booking Through Series Probably most books stand on their own. But a lot of them are part of a series. J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings trilogy comes immediately to mind, as well as Stephen R. Donaldson’s Gap series, Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody series, and lots more. Do you read books that are part of a series?...

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BTT: Children’s Books

Hosted by: Booking Through Thursday With J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince making its sensational debut last weekend I started thinking about children’s books. There have been a lot of wonderful ones over the years, The Cat in the Hat, Where the Wild Things Are, Bambi, the Mother Westwind stories, the Chronicles...

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BTT: How Many

Hosted by: Booking Through Thursday Some people are like my uncle, and they read four or five books a week, every week. Some are like my father, and read four or five books in a year. How many books do you read in a week? Month? Year? One in a week. 4 in the month. Minimal 65 books for a year. What’s the best book or series...

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BTT: Format

Hosted by: Booking Through Thursday Some people, like my mother, only read paperback books. Others prefer hard cover books. Some read hard cover books because they come out first, but prefer paperbacks otherwise. And you? Do you prefer to read hard cover or paperback books? Paperbacks. But if have no choice, I get the hard covers....

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BTT: Coffee Table Books

Hosted by Booking through Thursday My own personal definition of a coffee table book is a book that is large, over-sized, has lots of pictures, is about a specific theme (e.g., Georgia O’Keeffe’s 100 Flowers, steeple chasing, Disney Animation, the Golden Gate Bridge, etc.) and generally speaking not something that most people would...

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BTT: Buy, Borrow, Trade

Hosted by: Booking Through Thursday Some people like to be surrounded by books, and keep everything they’ve ever read. Others don’t like the clutter, and keep them long enough to read them. Most people seem to be somewhere in the middle… Do you buy the books you read, or do you borrow them from the library or from friends or from...

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