I was 6 years old when I read my first novel. My mother was annoyed with me that fateful day, and she frustratedly pointed at the bookshelf and said “Find a book and read it – it will keep you occupied while I finish this job”. In those days, my mother worked from home and a fidgety 6 year old does not make a particularly productive day.<\/p>\n
I remember walking up to the bookcase and skimming titles until I came to “Nancy Drew and The Quest of the Missing Map”. I don’t recall the story in it’s entirety – which has proven both a blessing and a curse for me – but I from what I do recall, there was a old man and a guest house with a map hidden in a wall…. I really don’t remember much else. The blessing here is that when I do find “The Quest of the Missing Map” again, I will be able to enjoy it with as much gusto as I did when I first read it. The curse is that I can’t tell you anything about it, write a review or even comment on the writing in general.<\/p>\n
I suspect that it was that first book that set the stage for the kind of story I would continue to enjoy all my life – thriller, mystery, whodunit types. Even today, I am more likely to reach for a Crime Thriller or a Whodunit than any other kind of book. I have never liked Romance novels, though I read a great deal of Danielle Steele in my teen years – nor did I take too much to war stories or even espionage. And I certainly never cottoned on to the Drama genre.<\/p>\n
Which is not to say that I won’t read any books that fall within those genres. I do. In fact, I only recently completed Jeannette Cooper<\/a>‘s “Desperate Choices<\/a>“. I would categorize it as a Romance\/Drama, however it did have elements of a thriller in it. I quite enjoyed it and recommend it highly to all our readers. Outstanding story-telling.<\/p>\n While I was trying to come up with a topic for this week’s post, I asked myself what it was that started me off as a reader and by extension, what you the FE community have to share with us.<\/p>\n Tell us about your first book ever – how you think it influenced your current reading habits – even how it may have affected your desire to write your own stories. Feel free to use the comment form below and share with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was 6 years old when I read my first novel. My mother was annoyed with me that fateful day, and she frustratedly pointed at the bookshelf and said “Find a book and read it – it will keep you occupied while I finish this job”. In those days, my mother worked from home and a fidgety 6 year old does not make a particularly productive day. I remember walking up to the bookcase and skimming titles until I came to “Nancy Drew and The Quest of the Missing Map”. I don’t recall the story in it’s entirety – which has proven both a blessing and a curse for me – but I from what I do recall, there was a old man and a guest house with a map hidden in a wall…. I really don’t remember much else. The blessing here is that when I do find “The Quest of the Missing Map” again, I will be able to enjoy it with as much gusto as I did when I first read it. The curse is that I can’t tell you anything about it, write a review or even comment on the writing in general. Genre choices I suspect that it was that first book that set the stage for the kind of story I would continue to enjoy all my life – thriller, mystery, whodunit types. Even today, I am more likely to reach for a Crime Thriller or a Whodunit than any other kind of book. I have never liked Romance novels, though I read a great deal of Danielle Steele in my teen years – nor did I take too much to war stories or even espionage. And I certainly never cottoned on to the Drama genre. Which is not to say that I won’t read any books that fall within those genres. I do. In fact, I only recently completed Jeannette Cooper‘s “Desperate Choices“. I would categorize it as a Romance\/Drama, however it did have elements of a thriller in it. I quite enjoyed it and recommend it highly to all our readers. Outstanding story-telling. What’s your story? While I was trying to come up with a topic for this week’s post, I asked myself what it was that started me off as a reader and by extension, what you the FE community have to share with us. Tell us about your first book ever – how you think it influenced your current reading habits – even how it may have affected your desire to write your own stories. Feel free to use the comment form below and share with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[181,12,183,182],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books-2","tag-reading","tag-stories","tag-story-telling"],"views":3119,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What’s your story?<\/h1>\n