Good morning, and welcome to another Thursday event, presented today, serendipitously, here at my Serendipity blog.
Theme Thursdays is presented by Reading Between Pages; and you can find our other event at Booking Through Thursday.
Our theme today is CHARACTER DESCRIPTION, to be illustrated with a snippet including one.
I am excerpting from Armed: An Alex Harris Mystery, by Elaine Macko.
The first person narrator is describing a victim, while tapping her pencil:
“I didn’t know her well on a personal level. She could be gruff at times but also very efficient. She had high standards, but modern technology intimidated her.” I stopped the tapping and looked sternly at Detective Van der Burg. “Detective, I don’t feel comfortable talking about someone who just died. I’m not trying to besmirch her good name. Mrs. Scott was a nice person. She had her idiosyncrasies just like anyone else.”
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Now for our bookish prompt:
Of the books you own, what’s the biggest category/genre?
Is this also the category that you actually read the most?
If I were to examine my bookshelves, which are located in every room including the bathroom and pantry, you would definitely find a lot of women’s fiction and literary fiction; you would also see many mysteries laced in among the others; and finally, there are plenty of memoirs.
And yes, this pretty much sums up my reading, too. This week, I’m reading two mysteries and two women’s fiction novels. I think this is somewhat representative of my tastes. And on my stacks are several memoirs, including Carrie Fisher’s Shockaholic.
In the past, you would probably have seen more “women’s issues” on my shelves due to the “revival” of feminism in the seventies. In the sixties, you might have seen me reading more historical and literary fiction, including my favorites from those Russian guys.
Nowadays, I’m even venturing into Paranormal and YA books, because of Book Blogging…and Cozy Mysteries have been added recently.
Would love to know your answers…so please stop by and leave your links!
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