Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying about it.
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!
• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying about it.
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!
The book I finished reading for the February reading group selection, The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell, has a narrator that is telling us the story of how she ended up in a sticky situation. Do you like when narrators come right out and tell you that something is going to happen or do you prefer to let the story unfold without the foreshadowing?
I know this is going to be a hot topic in reading group, as we have people in both camps. I think it depends on the narrative style--if the character is hinting that something is going to happen versus the character coming right out and telling us something is happening. And I prefer hints rather than being told outright.
3 comments:
I really don't know. I do know that I enjoyed the TV show "Murder, She Wrote, much more than "Columbo". In Murder, She Wrote, we got to try and figure out whodunit. However, with Columbo we knew whodunit, but we followed Columbo has he figured out whodunit. Did that make any sense? I hope so, because that is my answer, and I'm sticking to it....
Hmmm. . . good question. Sometimes it's more fun to know more than the characters know--it's more suspenseful when you have an insider's view as to what's coming. But sometimes it's fun to just get a hint now and then and try to figure things out. I guess if it's a good, suspenseful storyline, it really doesn't matter to me!
I like it to just unfold.
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