Comments for BVS Reader's Blog

Comment on Cara Bristol Interviews Luc Fortier The Hero From A Scent Of Longing by Mary Preston

Mary Preston — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:31:14 +0000

What stands out for me here is the age of the vampire – half vampire. 376 years sounds right & ripe to me. I want vampires that have a past.

Comment on Books & Pinning On Pinterest by Mary Preston

Mary Preston — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:28:45 +0000

I don’t dare get myself hooked on Pinterest. I don’t have enough hours in the day for everything as it is.

Comment on Current Events, Popular TV Shows And Popular Movies – Do They Impact What You Want To Read? by Laurie Sanders

Laurie Sanders — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:48:34 +0000

I wouldn’t have been much interested in Game of Thrones based on the first episode, but I’d read somewhere (Heroes & Heartbreakers maybe) that one really needed to give the show a couple of episodes…so I did give it some leeway and it did grow on me. Though it is still very violent and in some places like horror with blood spatter and heads flying off. I could do without the gruesome…but it’s there so I put up with it.

Fantasy is usually not a genre that I am into either…but it seems every time I say that about a genre I find something that makes me rethink the stance. I guess because there are good and worthwhile pieces in every genre (movie genre or book genre).

My favorite TV fare is a lot like yours…Criminal Minds is my favorite. I like crime dramas. Mostly we watch Criminal Minds and Law & Order. Then we’ll sometimes have a marathon watching our way through some TV series that we find on TV. We did that with Justified and have done it with other shows as well.

Do you find that part of what differentiates your movie and reading choices is what’s available in different media? There is not a great deal of historical romance in TV and movies…certainly not enough series to keep an avid fan going…but there is a lot of it in the book world.

Comment on Current Events, Popular TV Shows And Popular Movies – Do They Impact What You Want To Read? by Laurie Sanders

Laurie Sanders — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:41:01 +0000

Interesting Gabrielle,

In some ways what I like in TV and movies and in books is quite a bit different…though there is a big overlap in romantic suspense. I like both on TV or in movies. I don’t care for romance much on TV…it misses a lot of the internal emotion that I like in romance. But I love romance in books.

There are things that I like in either TV or in movies or in books that I then think…hmm…I rather liked that setting…or that time period…and then I am more open to other things with the setting or time period.

Comment on Current Events, Popular TV Shows And Popular Movies – Do They Impact What You Want To Read? by Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:33:01 +0000

We watch a lot of CSI and such but I don’t read those kind of books. I think that it may be the other way around for me. I love paranormal and fantasy books so I am drawn towards shows like paranormal and once upon a time and Grimm. I tend to watch a little of everything as well, from comedy to drama but even though I may watch some corresponding things they are pretty much two different things. Neither influences the other very much.

Comment on Current Events, Popular TV Shows And Popular Movies – Do They Impact What You Want To Read? by Karen H in NC

Karen H in NC — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:01:00 +0000

I tried watching Game of Thrones when the DVDs became available on Netflix and I just couldn’t get into it. I’m not much for fantasy stuff. I love the crime dramas like NCIS, L&O, Criminal Minds, CSI, Person of Interest, Blue Blood, Castle, Hawaii Five-O plus the good programming on USA and TNT. There are many more programs I love that I don’t list. But, my reading choices and TV/Movie choices are totally different. I love and read mainly historical romances (anything in the 19th century and early 20th century) plus a few, really good mystery/suspense/thrillers. I recently read ‘Depth of Deception (A Titanic Murder Mystery)’ by Alexander Galant. He’s new-to-me and I loved this book. It’s a paranormal mystery.

Comment on Pavarti K. Tyler Joins Us To Talk About Writing Literary Fiction by bn100

bn100 — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:35:19 +0000

Very interesting and informative post.

Comment on Current Events, Popular TV Shows And Popular Movies – Do They Impact What You Want To Read? by Laurie Sanders

Laurie Sanders — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:09:58 +0000

I’ve really enjoyed watching Game of Thrones so far. We blew through the first season within a few days. I expect you’d enjoy the series if you enjoyed the books, though I understand that there are some deviations from the books in the TV show. Those bother some people and not others. Doesn’t bother me because I am watching it with a clean slate, having not read the books at this point. Though it’s likely I will at some point…probably after the season ends.

My husband particularly likes historical dramas on TV and as movies so we see a fair number of them. I like them once I start watching them, though they usually wouldn’t be my first choice…though it depends on what I am doing at the time.

I tend to like modern dramas…particularly suspense and action in the visual world of movies and TV though the costuming in historical dramas is often breathtaking and I enjoy that as well.

Comment on Current Events, Popular TV Shows And Popular Movies – Do They Impact What You Want To Read? by Laurie Sanders

Laurie Sanders — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:59:47 +0000

Yes, I know what you mean. My choice of reading material is usually greatly influenced by my mood at the time I am looking for a new book. But then…lots can influence my mood. What I’ve just finished reading is often the biggest thing that influences my choice. Usually I go for something different than what I’ve just read.

I think I am a bit more open to a long fantasy series because of Game of Thrones though. Maybe…

Comment on Current Events, Popular TV Shows And Popular Movies – Do They Impact What You Want To Read? by Ilona F

Ilona F — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:36:30 +0000

I’m not a big TV or movie watcher so it doesn’t really influence my reading in any way. Mostly my reading choice is based on my mood at the time of starting a new book.

Comment on Current Events, Popular TV Shows And Popular Movies – Do They Impact What You Want To Read? by Mary Preston

Mary Preston — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:43:58 +0000

You MUST read GAME OF THRONES -indeed the entire series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE. It is brilliant reading. I have not seen the television series yet, but I will.

I tend to love period dramas on television. So when the BBC, for example, trot out a new Dickens production. I dive right in to reading Dickens. I am susceptible.

‘Modern’ dramas on television don’t have the same effect.

Comment on Win: A Montana Family By Roxanne Rustand by Connie Dempsey

Connie Dempsey — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:00:15 +0000

I just got through reading “Married in Montana” and LOVED it. I can’t wait to read the next two books in the series: A Montana Family and My Montana Home.

Comment on Is There An Obvious Association Between Writing And Editing? by Alana Woods

Alana Woods — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:27:03 +0000

Hi Laurie, I replied to this comment but must have hit the wrong button because it’s ended up at the top of the comments !! Hope you figured it out

Comment on Is There An Obvious Association Between Writing And Editing? by Alana Woods

Alana Woods — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:02:50 +0000

The advice writers get is to write about what you know and it’s certainly been true for me as my two published thrillers and the one I’m writing now (a corporate crime thriller about suspicious mergers) are all a result of jobs that I’ve had over the years. The experience I’ve gained as an insider gives me a really good base but not being a lawyer I need to do a fair amount of research to give the stories depth. Fortunately I have friends who are lawyers who are happy to help.

Comment on Is There An Obvious Association Between Writing And Editing? by Laurie Sanders

Laurie Sanders — Thu, 10 May 2012 03:21:02 +0000

It definitely sounds like a goldmine worth of fodder…especially for suspense/thriller type storylines. I love to read romantic suspense and love thrillers and suspense type movies but when it comes to writing them I’m not sure I’d be able to construct a plausible scenario that led the characters (hero/heroine and villain) all the way through the story from clues to catching the culprit. With court reporting (or I suppose studying true crime) the ways people did do things (or tried to do them) would be laid out for you…along with how they got caught in spite of trying to hide their moves.