Welcome to my new blog review of the books I read and
love. I'm a huge fan of books. There is nothing in this world better for
relaxing than getting lost in a really good book on a rainy and cold afternoon.
Over the years I have read thousands, so many in fact that sometimes I'm known
to buy the same book twice! This year my state is celebrating its 150th
birthday. My local library has started this fun group activity to read 150
books in one year. As of today (May 21, 2013) I am at 72 books with 78 left to
go and not even half way through the year.
I came up with the name Book, Wine and Time because everything else I could
think of was taken. Who would have known the amount of blogs out there.
I thought this would be a great place to start documenting my books and
maybe giving my opinion on each one. I read anything and everything as long as
it can hold my interest. Even the books
that I find really bad, I still can't seem to put them down until the last
page. I had one of these a few weeks ago...dry, slow.....BAD. But others loved
the books so to each their own.
My taste lately has been YA. I find the high school romance and first taste
of love refreshing. I like action and adventure and light romance. Although
since ALOT of the free ebooks are romance, I find I'm reading more and more of
them.
What I look for in a book?
1. A book needs pages. What I mean to say is a book has to be long enough
that a story is developed and draws the reader in and keeps them in on every
page. I find some books are just to short and the story just seems rushed.
2. Beware of the love at first page. When I read things like "I would
die for her" on the first few pages of a book after the characters just
meet, I want to toss the thing right out of the window. It's a book....stop
making characters fall in love so fast. Pull your readers in by dragging it out
a little. Let the readers fall in love with the characters before they do.
Makes for a better books to read.
3. The F-bomb. I'm not sure when this became so big but I'm finding it more
and more in books and it kind of drives me crazy. To drop this word now and
then is not that bad but to have every sentence spoken out of a character’s
mouth having this word in it kind of kills the story.
4. And the one thing that drives me crazy is when a story just ends and
leaves you hanging for the next book that doesn't come out until years later. I
can't stand this. I read so many books that most of the time I forget all about
the next one coming out. I kind of wish that if someone published a book series
that they would complete the whole series before they sale the first book. That
way, if you like it, you can buy all the books and enjoy the complete story.
Although there is a few really GREAT books that I have my calendar marked for
when they come out.
With all the above being said...I hope you enjoy my blog and I hope that the
books I read and post about will be something that interests you to read as
well. Everything I state will be my opinion. Please take note that I'm doing
this for fun, nothing more. Enjoy!