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Meme stolen from Miss enchanted_jae
Hardback, trade paperback or mass market paperback?
If I had enough money and space, I would own nothing but hardbacks. Alas, it is not so.
Barnes & Noble or Borders?
Borders, definitely.... don't tell B&N that, I go there a lot too.
Bookmark or dog-ear?
Random scrap of whatever happens to be laying around at the moment, or occasionally-I used to do this all the time-I just memorize the page number.
Amazon or brick and mortar?
uh...
righto.
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random?
Author, usually, although while in old bookshops it's fun to browse through randomly.
Keep, throw away, or sell?
Keep! I will never understand why anyone would would to get rid of them!
Keep dust jacket or toss it?
Keep it!
Read with dust jacket or remove it?
With, isn't that the point?
Short story or novel?
Novel
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
I love Harry Potter, I haven't read Lemony Snicket.
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
Both. Depending on how badly I want to keep reading (until I fall asleep?) or keep my page.
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"?
"Once upon a dark and stormy night"
Buy or borrow?
Buy, always buy.
New or used?
New are shinier, used can be fun too.
Buying choice: book reviews, recommendations, or browse?
Browsing or recommendations.
Tidy ending or cliffhanger?
Tidy.
Morning reading, afternoon reading, or nighttime reading?
Mid-morning, early afternoon, outside on the patio swing, getting a sunburn without realizing it.
Stand-alone or series?
I could go for either, although when you're hard pressed to find the rest of the series (or afford it), they can get annoying.
Favorite series?
Probably Harry Potter.
Favorite children's book?
Umm... Notsure?
Favorite YA book?
Does the Redwall series count?
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
Mandy. Don't ask me who the author is, I don't know.
Favorite books read last year?
Candide
Favorite books of all time?
I couldn't choose just one.
What are you reading right now?
Goblet of Fire and Les Miserables, although that one's on hiatus for now.
What are you reading next?
Order of the Pheonix, and that Brian Jacques book that's been taunting me from the bookshelf.
Favorite book to recommend to an eleven-year-old?
CS Lewis, and not just the second one!
Favorite book to reread?
Any that I haven't read in a while. It's always amazing how, even after ten readings, you can still catch something new.
Do you ever smell books?
Yeess. The only smell that beats walking into a Borders is walking out of one in Seattle after a rain.
Do you ever read Primary source documents?
Not... really? I really want to buy the Communist Manifesto though, does that count?
Well, that was exciting. And now it's after five. Which means Sinclair is going to be getting home soon. And most likely avoiding the phone so she doesn't have to hang out tonight. Because it's so difficult for her to say "hey, I dun wanna!"
Whatever.
Hey, if anybody would like to come to my supercoolawesome "older fans" HPDH release party, lemme know! I'll send all the necessary information your way. :-D
It might be best if you live around here though, although I'm not anti-picking people up at the airport.
Hardback, trade paperback or mass market paperback?
If I had enough money and space, I would own nothing but hardbacks. Alas, it is not so.
Barnes & Noble or Borders?
Borders, definitely.... don't tell B&N that, I go there a lot too.
Bookmark or dog-ear?
Random scrap of whatever happens to be laying around at the moment, or occasionally-I used to do this all the time-I just memorize the page number.
Amazon or brick and mortar?
uh...
righto.
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random?
Author, usually, although while in old bookshops it's fun to browse through randomly.
Keep, throw away, or sell?
Keep! I will never understand why anyone would would to get rid of them!
Keep dust jacket or toss it?
Keep it!
Read with dust jacket or remove it?
With, isn't that the point?
Short story or novel?
Novel
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
I love Harry Potter, I haven't read Lemony Snicket.
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
Both. Depending on how badly I want to keep reading (until I fall asleep?) or keep my page.
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"?
"Once upon a dark and stormy night"
Buy or borrow?
Buy, always buy.
New or used?
New are shinier, used can be fun too.
Buying choice: book reviews, recommendations, or browse?
Browsing or recommendations.
Tidy ending or cliffhanger?
Tidy.
Morning reading, afternoon reading, or nighttime reading?
Mid-morning, early afternoon, outside on the patio swing, getting a sunburn without realizing it.
Stand-alone or series?
I could go for either, although when you're hard pressed to find the rest of the series (or afford it), they can get annoying.
Favorite series?
Probably Harry Potter.
Favorite children's book?
Umm... Notsure?
Favorite YA book?
Does the Redwall series count?
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
Mandy. Don't ask me who the author is, I don't know.
Favorite books read last year?
Candide
Favorite books of all time?
I couldn't choose just one.
What are you reading right now?
Goblet of Fire and Les Miserables, although that one's on hiatus for now.
What are you reading next?
Order of the Pheonix, and that Brian Jacques book that's been taunting me from the bookshelf.
Favorite book to recommend to an eleven-year-old?
CS Lewis, and not just the second one!
Favorite book to reread?
Any that I haven't read in a while. It's always amazing how, even after ten readings, you can still catch something new.
Do you ever smell books?
Yeess. The only smell that beats walking into a Borders is walking out of one in Seattle after a rain.
Do you ever read Primary source documents?
Not... really? I really want to buy the Communist Manifesto though, does that count?
Well, that was exciting. And now it's after five. Which means Sinclair is going to be getting home soon. And most likely avoiding the phone so she doesn't have to hang out tonight. Because it's so difficult for her to say "hey, I dun wanna!"
Whatever.
Hey, if anybody would like to come to my supercoolawesome "older fans" HPDH release party, lemme know! I'll send all the necessary information your way. :-D
It might be best if you live around here though, although I'm not anti-picking people up at the airport.