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3/10/2014

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I am a fast reader.

No really.  I am a fast reader.

I can read a book in a day, if I really love it. I plow through books. I love reading. I was raised a bit of a reader and I think reading is one of the best things to do as a child and young adult. My god, did I have a fantasy life when I was younger. I am sure a lot due to books.

These days my reading is not so much about escapism, but much more about entertainment. 

I wish I could say I read a lot of awesome, high level, demanding books. High brow-lit, you know, but I don't.

I love thrillers and crime novels. I completely binge read them and then I actually have to go off the juice for a few months, because I start reading a crime book and little, as I would call them "Mistakes" in the story annoy me and then I realize it's time to take a break from crime novels.

I blame my love for crime novels, even more specific: serial killer books (I  just ordered a book where some serial killer does lobotomies on his victims. What a sick fuck and what is wrong with me that I immediately click on "SEND TO MY KINDLE". 

I digress, I blame some of this on one of my best friends in college. She was studying psychology and had this book about forensic psychology and I would read it at night at her house, for fun, you know. This then would cause me to be afraid in my own house and often taken the late night bus to her house, so I wouldn't be alone, but ever since then I found these stories just insanely scary and suspenseful.

I also developed a real love for "Criminal Minds" until that show got a bit too gruesome for me (season 3 I think, one and two were good). I still watch it off and on, but not religiously. I also have  2.5 epsiode limit on them. If there is a Criminal Minds marathon and I am at about that level, I start seeing things when I walk the dogs in the dark.

That pick up truck? THAT LOOKS SUSPICIOUS.  You get what I mean. :)

Anyway. Go to read my book about the serial killer lobotomy killer now.

What types of books do you guys read?
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Steffi link
03/10/2014 6:16am

Ha ha, that’s good. I usually don’t like crime in books. I do love Criminal Minds though.
I started watching it during my time at the Ammersee (the 5 week seminar I had in January/ February 2012) and I watch it ever since. And I really love Navy CIS and Navy CIS LA.
As for books I am more into historical novels and romance novels too. The romance novels are a great read, distracting and enjoyable.
And I like reading about the past, so the historical novels are for info and for fun. I mostly read books that play in the UK, Scotland, and France. And I like books that really have a true story behind them. History and Fiction mixed.
I love Diana Gabaldon, Rebecca Gable and Ken Follett. I have some other writers too, can’t remember them all now.
As for romance novels I am addicted to Suzan-Elisabeth Phillips, Susan Mallery, Alexandra Potter,…
I have some books from Jane Green which I really like too. A bit of romance, but more grown-up and not just about romance – they all come with a life-story.
I like some of the books from Sophia Kinsella, but not all. And I have some from Cecilia Ahern which I really like – not so much romance, more serious and about life.
And in totally different order I like Dan Brown – not all of his books but the ones that come with history.


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Ulli link
03/11/2014 2:56am

Oh! That is good information! I have to look some of these people up. I haven't heard of many of them. I can't do romance novels...I don't know why...it's just...too....much? :)

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Steffi link
03/11/2014 3:18am

So then you shouldt reed Susan Mallery. And I guess also not Suzan Elisabeth Phillips. :-)

But if you like history try Rebecca Gable! And Ken Follett too.
I have one book by Charlotte Lyne, it's called "Die zwölfte Nacht" which I really liked as well.

Shannon
03/11/2014 12:02pm

I love chick lit. It is my guilty pleasure. Every time I get a break from school, I read at least one book. It's pure escapism and I love every second of it.

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Moni link
03/16/2014 1:33pm

Dude. I read cookbooks. And books on food. And literature. But you knew this already. And my kindle has the secret books: The ones I don't want to admit to reading (kinda like your guilty pleasure of the murderers' books). The self-help, or the literary theory ones. Yes, lit, theory that I'm supposed to know like the back of my hand and I don't quite know. If they are hidden, then nobody knows I'm boning up on either my soul, or my school stuff. :D We all have secrets....

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Ulli link
03/17/2014 3:24am

You are a hidden reader? :) I LOVE IT :)

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