Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 95

On The Day I Die, by Catriona

Q: When reading a book (or watching a movie or TV series), how long do you give it to grab you before giving up? Is your tolerance level different in the different mediums? Has it changed from where it was ten or even twenty years ago? How much of this tendency has to do with your reader/viewer self and how much is due to the writer self?  Do you wish you were different in this regard, and if so, how?

Sliding into homebase footfirst here with a late post - I came back to work after the hols this ...

Should I stay...or should I go? by Cathy Ace

Q: When reading a book (or watching a movie or TV series), how long do you give it to grab you before giving up? Is your tolerance level different in the different mediums? Has it changed from where it was ten or even twenty years ago? How much of this tendency has to do with your reader/viewer self and how much is due to the writer self?  Do you wish you were different in this regard, and if so, how?

A: First of all, this is my chance to wish everyone good health and great happiness for 2022…so...

Grab Me

When reading a book (or watching a movie or TV series), how long do you give it to grab you before giving up?     

From Frank

I used to be a completionist. If I started a book, I finished it. Same with a movie. Maybe not so much with a TV series but definitely an episode. And if I invested in it for a few of those episode, I was seeing it through.

No longer.

Now, if you don't grab me in a reasonable amount of time, I'm gone. 

What's a reasonable time? Well...

Is your tolerance level different in the d...

So many books, so little time

 Q: When reading a book (or watching a movie or TV series), how long do you give it to grab you before giving up? Is your tolerance level different in the different mediums? Has it changed from where it was ten or even twenty years ago? How much of this tendency has to do with your reader/viewer self and how much is due to the writer self?  Do you wish you were different in this regard, and if so, how? 

- from Susan

 

Less and less time, no matter what medium. 

I started stockpiling books in my 40s ...

Season's Greetings from 7 Criminal Minds

 

Reading My Way Out of the Darkness, by Josh Stallings

 

View from my desk

Winter is classically a time to celebrate the belief that regardless of the long cold nights, spring will come again. I take it on faith that the hardest days will ultimately end and better ones are coming if I keep holding on. I don’t mean to fly in the face of “seasonal joy,” but for many of us, myself included, these holidays bring up a cocktail of joy and pain. It’s raining on my mountain, snow is coming in this afternoon. I haven’t spoken to my younger son in almost five y...

Pick of the Year, by Catriona

It's been another tremdous year in books. I've read 120, what with still living very quietly and also what with there being nothing I'd rather do. And finally what with spending so much less time browsing and grazing.

Let me explain:

Halfway through 2020, when I discovered I had bought the same book twice (again!), I put my TBR shelves into alphabetical order. Then, for reasons I can't really remember - to take away options paralysis? because some of the TBR had been waiting for years? because the...

Addiction starts here... by Cathy Ace

Hello folks! Because I tend to read in spurts, and get into a series, I'm going to take this chance to point you in the direction of some addictive reads I've succumbed to this year. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!! 

Val McDermid: the Karen Pirie books. The most recent title in this series, Still Life, was such a good read I went back to the beginning and started all over again. Val McDermid’s voice through all her work (her recent 1979, Allie Burns #1, was FABULOUS...cannot wait for 1989 to be published!...

May I Suggest?

For Your Holiday Gift-Giving Consideration...Colin Conway

From Frank

You may have readers on your gift list (or someone you can help turn into a reader!), so here are some ideas for books to wrap up and put bows on for those folks. 

Caveats:  (a) everyone's tastes differ, so make sure your intended recipient has at least a tangential interest in the type of book presented; 
(b) I'm expecting you'll check out the great books by my fellow Criminal Minds panelists, so this list is for after that explor...

More Book Recommendations

Book suggestions

- from Susan

 

There can never be too many books. There can never be enough time to read all those books. Every day last week, as my Minds colleagues highlighted their favorites, my scribbled list of “must reads” got longer.

 

I agree with everyone that not all the noted books need to be crime fiction, nor do they need to have been published in 2021. In fact, after 2020, when I read all or parts of hundreds of crime fiction novels for the Edgar Awards, I needed to cleanse my palette,...