Simple eh?! I found this blog hop gave me a ridiculously difficult choice to make. Choose one book you love. How as a book lover of many genres choose just one book?If I was looking specifically at a book aimed at writers, I would easily have said Stephen King's On Writing, but that narrows the field of people who would want to read it, down.
The book that has made a massive impact me on most recently, I have already blogged about. Jojo Moyes, Me before You.
So where did I go from there? I decided the best place was to go to my favourite author who just so happens to write a crime series and then pick her first book in that series and the one that started my love of her books, so my book for todays blog hop is Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted.It's brilliantly done. Slaughter's book, though crime orientated and sometimes grisly, are character driven and you can easily get inside their skins. Often, you wish you weren't in that skin at that point in time, but that's because she drags you along so mercilessly. I love her books, I love her narrative style, so Blindsighted is a great place to start if you want to try a crime series.
I was tempted to tag into this blogfest, but I'm still on a comedown from yesterday's 80s one.
ReplyDeleteAside from Pride & Prejudice, recently my favourite book has been The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom - such a warm and comforting book about the afterlife, made me feel cosy and reassured!
I think you should do it Annalisa! Look it's not a big one, it won't take long ;)
DeleteHow have we never come across each other? I write crime too and Karin Slaughter is my FAVORITE. In fact Blindsighted is my favorite of her novels (although Fallen is a very, very close second). Also Stephen King's On Writing is like my writing Bible!
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DeleteShe's fantastic isn't she. I just wish she would write quicker!
I find On Writing, inspirational. Practical and honest. I haven't read any of his fiction strangely enough but I like his style, so it is on my list of things to read.
I think King's On Writing is my writing bible too, like Lisa said. =)
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting the first in the series. I love being able to start from the beginning (even though it generally doesn't really matter...)
Hi Jenny. Thanks for stopping by. Even though I know it generally doesn't matter about where you start in a series, I have this dreadfully time consuming habit of wanting to start at the beginning. I've done that with two series of books that were already pretty substantive and it took me a while. With Slaughters books I would definitely recommend it though as her books are really character driven and things happen as the series progress that make the characters who they are. Never mind my favourite book, I'd have this down as my favourite series!
DeleteI could never, never pick a book I love above all ever. But I can pick a recent one - The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle. Oh, I fell so hard for his prose!
ReplyDeleteI found it really difficult, but as you see, in the end I went for a book from my favourite series. If an author is churning out excellent books every time, you can't really go wrong. I might have to look up the Last Unicorn.
DeleteEh, I cheated and chose three. It's not like my blogs going to--
ReplyDelete--what just happened to it?
One of those three is going on my TBR pile. Thanks for visiting :)
DeleteFabulous! I haven't heard of her yet, but I love crime books. This sounds like it would be great to check out. Glad you shared!
ReplyDeleteIf you like crime books, you should love her. Real character driven books with great plots which have you flipping pages over rapidly.
DeleteWell, she has the perfect name to promote her book! I don't really read crime, but I'll give it a chance!
ReplyDeleteIt really is a great name isn't it! I think it's her real name rather than a pen name as well. You'd hope so wouldn't you. It would be a bit obvious to go for such a name in her genre.
DeleteThat's always a tough decision to pick just one book. Of course, for me the Bible would be a given since it's so diverse and so much other literature is rooted in it. But aside from that, I might have to go with the complete works of Flannery O'Connor--it fits in one book and it worth reading over again.
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Lee, I had to Google O'Connor before I replied to this comment as I hadn't heard of her. I am somewhat fascinated now and will look into picking up one of her novels in the future. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteI loved Jojo's book, too!
ReplyDeleteI sobbed buckets at the ending!
DeleteI discovered Karin Slaughter by accident not so long back, I think this is an excellent choice :-)
ReplyDeleteI love crime stories and would be checking this one out. Thanks for picking it!
ReplyDelete"Massive imapct" works for me! Now I'll definitely have to check it out.
ReplyDeleteRebecca, if you do read any Flannery O'Connor, I would highly recommend starting with some of her short stories. I think that's what she did best and, well, they're short and quick reads. "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" is her most well known story and it's a great one, though there are others I like better.
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