Mainly books, but also other pleasing things
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books, Weekly Events on Aug 12th, 2010
Have your reading choices changed over the years? Or pretty much stayed the same? (And yes, from childhood to adulthood we usually read different things, but some people stick to basically the same kind of book their entire lives, so…) Basically my reading choices have pretty much been the same for some time now. I used [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books, Fiction, Weekly Events on Jul 1st, 2010
Today’s question from Deb is: Name a book or author that you truly wanted to love but left you disappointed. (And, of course, explain why.) One book that came to mind when I read this question is Haweswater by Sarah Hall. I read it in 2006 before I wrote about books on my blog so [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books, Weekly Events on Jun 17th, 2010
Do you prefer reading current books? Or older ones? Or outright old ones? (As in, yes, there’s a difference between a book from 10 years ago and, say, Charles Dickens or Plato.) About half the books I’ve read this year are current books – published within the last ten years. The other half date from [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books, Short Stories on Jun 3rd, 2010
Which do you prefer? Short stories? Or full-length novels? Comparing short stories and full-length novels is like comparing a weekend away with a month long holiday. A few days away means that you can only skim the surface of a place, not really getting to know it very well, seeing the highlights and you can come [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday on May 6th, 2010
This week’s topic: So … you’re halfway through a book and you’re hating it. It’s boring. It’s trite. It’s badly written. But … you’ve invested all this time to reading the first half. What do you do? Read the second half? Just to finish out the story? Find out what happens? Or, cut your [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books on Apr 8th, 2010
Plots? Or Stream-of-Consciousness? Which would you rather read? It all depends on my mood! I like both at different times. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf springs to mind as a good example of stream-of-consciousness writing and is a book to cogitate over and I could read it again and again. Plot driven books, in contrast, [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books on Apr 1st, 2010
Deb has asked a variety of questions for today. Who’s your favorite “fool” of a character, and why? What authors have fooled you? By a trick plot twist? By making you think their book was any good when it wasn’t? What covers have fooled you into reading books you hated … even though the covers were wonderful? What’s [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books on Mar 25th, 2010
Do you take breaks while reading a book? Or read it straight through? (And, by breaks, I don’t mean sleeping, eating and going to work; I mean putting it aside for a time while you read something else.) I have three books on the go right now. Sometimes I have more. I have tried [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books on Mar 11th, 2010
How do you feel about illustrations in your books? Graphs? Photos? Sketches? I think illustrations are essential in some books and not in others. Non-fiction cries out for them. They enhance biographies for example. Cookery books without photos are just not as explanatory, they demonstrate how the cooked dish should look. Imagine travel books without photos [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books on Feb 4th, 2010
This week’s question: The northern hemisphere, at least, is socked in by winter right now… So, on a cold, wintry day, when you want nothing more than to curl up with a good book on the couch … what kind of reading do you want to do? It is cold here, but looking at what [...]
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