Weekly Book Chat From A Thankful Reader

From TGIF Reads
Q. Giving Thanks: Which books are you most thankful for receiving.
This year (2011): The Lunatic, Anthony Winkler - I was so pleased to discover such a funny, well-written book produced by someone from my home country (Jamaica).

From the past: The Robert Ludlum and Louis L'Amour books that my dad passed on to me, because in doing so, he gave me my first "grown up" books; and they were even more special because these were his favorite authors. Plus - I could brag to everyone who had ears that I had read The Bourne Identity etc. when the movies came out!!!

Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys
- I grew up reading those books, and so I suppose they are responsible for my love of reading today xx years later :-)

Mills and Boons Books and cheesy Harlequin Romances!
I ate these books up like candy yo! Like candy laced with crack :-)

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From Follow Friday
Q: Letter to Santa: Tell Santa what books you want for Christmas!
Santaaaaa!!!! Love you! I've been waiting foreverrrrr for 2 books to come in from the library - Anna Dressed in Blood, Kendare Blake and The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin. It doesn't look like they're coming in anytime soon - certainly not before Christmas - so could you hook a sister up?! Could you please put these underneath my Christmas tree.

Anna Dressed in Blood, Kendare Blake (it's on my list for 10 Enticing Book Covers of 2011 and 10 Books To Read During Halloween - The 2011 Edition). Cas Lowood kills the dead. He travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life.

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin.
Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. Since that day she's been having flashbacks and nightmares. In an attempt to stop her from reliving the past Mara and her family move to Miami Florida. She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. There is. She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. She's wrong.

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From Booking Through Thursday
Q. Of the books you own, what's the biggest category/genre? Is this also the category that you actually read the most?
The biggest category would be horror/ thriller due to the fact that I have stopped buying books, and my collection of Stephen King & Dean Koontz books are what remains. I think "epic fantasy" would be the next most popular genre on my bookshelves - with my husbands collections of George Martin & Terry Goodkind books.

I read a wide variety of adult (and young adult) fiction - so I don't think I have a specific category of books that I read most.