Tag Archives: Memes

Format (Booking Through Thursday)

On Reading February 21, 2008 Superfast Reader 6 Comments

All other things (like price and storage space) being equal, given a choice in a perfect world, would you rather have paperbacks in your library? Or hardcovers? And why? I prefer trade edition paperbacks, for the most part, because I do a lot of my reading on the subway, and hardcovers get really heavy and unwieldy. They’re also better for reading in bed, especially when they have to rest on a pregnant belly! I also tend to prefer the way that trade paperbacks look, mainly…

Non Fiction Meme

On Reading February 19, 2008 Superfast Reader 1 Comment

I’m late getting to Gautami’s Non Fiction Meme. * a) What issues/topic interests you most in non-fiction, i.e, cooking, knitting, stitching, there are infinite topics that have nothing to do with novels? Books about food, books that explain scientific topics for general readers, biography, memoir, history, travelogues. I love reading books about my hobbies, particularly knitting and cooking. My library is filled with books of film history, criticism, and theory. I like some books on Christianity by authors like CS Lewis and Dan Allender. Lately…

After the Honeymoon (Booking Through Thursday)

On Reading February 14, 2008 Superfast Reader 16 Comments

Hereâ€™s something for Valentineâ€™s Day. Have you ever fallen out of love with a favorite author? Was the last book you read by the author so bad, you broke up with them and havenâ€™t read their work since? Could they ever lure you back? In college and for a time afterwards, I was obsessed with Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum. I must have read it at least 8 times. I read Eco’s other works, including his semiotics, and would have considered him a favorite author. A…

123 Meme

On Reading February 5, 2008 Superfast Reader 2 Comments

The kind and well-read Walrus tagged me for the 123 meme. Thank you! I’m currently reading Renegade’s Magic by Robin Hobb, which is sitting at the top of the stack next to my nursing glider. Also in the stack: The Axe by Sigrid Undset, the New King James Bible (not that I have bothered to read it lately), and Lose Your Mummy Tummy. “Let me be forgotten by them. And what did I hope for myself? Hope. It seemed a bitter word now.” Here are…

Making My Day

On Reading January 30, 2008 Superfast Reader 3 Comments

I made Bybee’s day (thanks!!) so here are 10 people who made my day recently: Sheila, for blogging a Real Housewives conversation I wish I’d been a part of. YA author extraordinaire Laurie Halse Anderson, for running to raise money to fight leukemia and lymphoma. Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist for my free book. Eva for such a fabulous meme. The other 6 aren’t bloggers (nor are they individuals), but I’m just so happy for all of them: Judy & Mako’s son & new fiancee Catherine and…

Huh? (Booking through Thursday)

On Reading January 24, 2008 Superfast Reader 21 Comments

What’s your favorite book that nobody else has heard of? You know, not Little Women or Huckleberry Finn, not the latest best-seller . . . whether they’ve read them or not, everybody “knows” those books. I’m talking about the best book that, when you tell people that you love it, they go, “Huh? Never heard of it?” A Candle in Her Room by Ruth Arthur tells the story of several generations of a family haunted by a charismatic and evil doll. It scared me silly…

Let’s Review (Booking Through Thursday)

On Reading January 17, 2008 Superfast Reader 11 Comments

This week’s question is suggested by Puss Reboots: How much do reviews (good and bad) affect your choice of reading? If you see a bad review of a book you wanted to read, do you still read it? If you see a good review of a book youâ€™re sure you wonâ€™t like, do you change your mind and give the book a try? Reviews don’t get me excited. I prefer to read them after I’ve read a book, to see how my experience matched up…

May I Introduce… (Booking Through Thursday)

On Reading January 10, 2008 Superfast Reader 7 Comments

How did you come across your favorite author(s)? Recommended by a friend? Stumbled across at a bookstore? A book given to you as a gift? Was it love at first sight? Or did the love affair evolve over a long acquaintance? You can find my favorite authors listed in the first sidebar column. Here’s a rundown of how I met them all: CS Lewis–My father read the Chronicles of Narnia to me when was a little girl. For my 6th birthday, I had a cake…

Anticipation (Booking Through Thursday)

On Reading January 3, 2008 Superfast Reader 12 Comments

What new books are you looking forward to most in 2008? Something new being published this year? Something you got as a gift for the holidays? Anything in particular that you’re planning to read in 2008 that you’re looking forward to? A classic, or maybe a best-seller from 2007 that you’re waiting to appear in paperback? I’ve got four new books I’m waiting for: Dreamsongs Volume 2 by George RR Martin–more short stories and his novella “The Hedge Knight,” set in the same world as…

100 Most Influential Books by Women

On Reading December 17, 2007 Superfast Reader 11 Comments

Via BookGal–I’ve bolded the ones I’ve read. 1. Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind 2. Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire 3. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse 4. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 5. Virginia Woolf, The Waves 6. Virginia Woolf, Orlando 7. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood 8. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth 9. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence 10. Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome 11. Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness 12. Nadine Gordimer, Burger’s Daughter 13. Harriette Simpson Arnow, The Dollmaker 14. Margaret Atwood,…

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