Allison Symes's Blog - Posts Tagged "classic-books"
New Year, New Books, New Authors?
Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you received lots of lovely books for Christmas.
Am currently working my way through the latest Richard Osman one and a couple of flash fiction collections, and am loving them all. The To Be Read pile shows no sign of going down much though I think that is how it should be!
So with a new year ahead of us are there new books you’re looking forward to? Are there new authors you discovered in 2021 whose works you really enjoyed?
A new year gives us the chance to try new books and writers new to us and I hope to do plenty of that over the next twelve months.
I like to mix up classic and contemporary reading and going to book events, whether I take part in them myself or not, gives me plenty of opportunity to boost my contemporary To Be Read pile!
What matters is enjoying plenty of stories. And I must admit I have finally got to watch the latest Bond film No Time to Die. I thought the storyline there was excellent.
However you take your stories “in”, whether you read them, watch them, listen to them, or do a mixture, as long as the tale grips you, you are on to a winner. And I was gripped by this one.
As ever with any great story, the characters make it work. They are the story.
Am currently working my way through the latest Richard Osman one and a couple of flash fiction collections, and am loving them all. The To Be Read pile shows no sign of going down much though I think that is how it should be!
So with a new year ahead of us are there new books you’re looking forward to? Are there new authors you discovered in 2021 whose works you really enjoyed?
A new year gives us the chance to try new books and writers new to us and I hope to do plenty of that over the next twelve months.
I like to mix up classic and contemporary reading and going to book events, whether I take part in them myself or not, gives me plenty of opportunity to boost my contemporary To Be Read pile!
What matters is enjoying plenty of stories. And I must admit I have finally got to watch the latest Bond film No Time to Die. I thought the storyline there was excellent.
However you take your stories “in”, whether you read them, watch them, listen to them, or do a mixture, as long as the tale grips you, you are on to a winner. And I was gripped by this one.
As ever with any great story, the characters make it work. They are the story.
Working Out What To Read Next
Do you ever have problems working out what you’re going to read next?
I must admit to being a bit “naughty” in that I don’t necessarily read in strict chronological order from my always large To Be Read pile, whether is the old school print pile or the electronic one on my Kindle!
I don’t if I’m reading a series. I’ll just follow on.
When not doing that, I will go by my mood. If I’ve just enjoyed a crime story, I may well read another one straight off the back of the first one.
However, I never read more two books in a row in the same genre. After two, I want to ring the changes a bit.
At the moment, I’m on my second non-fiction book in a row so when I come to the end of that, I will go for fiction again. I’ve not decided yet what the genre will be.
In between novels, I will read short story and flash collections before resuming novel reading again. Then it will come full circle and I will be back to the non-fiction.
I am keen to make sure I have a good balance of reading material and like to mix up classic and contemporary here as well. Why limit your reading after all?
I must admit to being a bit “naughty” in that I don’t necessarily read in strict chronological order from my always large To Be Read pile, whether is the old school print pile or the electronic one on my Kindle!
I don’t if I’m reading a series. I’ll just follow on.
When not doing that, I will go by my mood. If I’ve just enjoyed a crime story, I may well read another one straight off the back of the first one.
However, I never read more two books in a row in the same genre. After two, I want to ring the changes a bit.
At the moment, I’m on my second non-fiction book in a row so when I come to the end of that, I will go for fiction again. I’ve not decided yet what the genre will be.
In between novels, I will read short story and flash collections before resuming novel reading again. Then it will come full circle and I will be back to the non-fiction.
I am keen to make sure I have a good balance of reading material and like to mix up classic and contemporary here as well. Why limit your reading after all?
