A reading/book meme
A reading/book meme - from vilakins...
Because I could actually think of answers, and because it made me happy reading hers...
01. Do you snack while you read? If so, favourite reading snack?
Hm, kind of. I do eat and read at the same time on occasion, but more often than not that tends to result in me forgetting about the snack and just continuing to read. I don't do it all that much because I hate getting crumbs between pages.
02. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
It horrified me right up until about year 12. Actually it still does, but there were a couple of books in year 12 I marked just because trying to find a quote by going through an entire book is just painful, especially if you're trying to do two essays on the same night.
03. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
A book mark, which may be even just another bit of paper or, more commonly, I memorise the page number I was up to. I don't know how my mind manages that (given how forgetful I am), but it seems to work.
04. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both?
Mostly fiction (general and fantasy), and more selective choices in non-fiction (literature, language use/development, and ancient history matters).
05. Hardcopy or audiobooks?
Not being read to. It's too awkward for me to listen to someone else reading these days. My mother does the latter (so she can cook, clean, etc) whilst "reading", but I'd rather be able to tell the story just by listening to that little voice in my head.
06. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point
Haha!! When I was little my father would come and tell me "Vivien time to go to bed" and I would beg to finish the chapter. The problem was I'd become so engrossed I wouldn't even realise I'd finished the chapter until about an hour later, when I was another 2 or 3 chapters in and had to go back through the book to find where the original chapter had finished.
07. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop to look it up right away? Write it down to look it up later? Just try to infer what it means from the rest of the sentence, and keep going?
Generally I just try and infer... I think the last word I looked up ended up being the word "catamite" which was in a Robyn Hobb novel. I think I was about 14 or 15 at the time.
08. What are you currently reading?
The library at night (Alberto Manguel), and a lot of fanfic. I'm also trying to get through a couple of Shakespeare plays... the ones I didn't read at school (Macbeth and Hamlet and Julius Caesar), but they're a little harder without cheat summaries for each scene like our high school books had. Occasionally I pick up How language works (David Crystal) and I have yet to finish The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) too.
09. What is the last book you bought?
How Language Works and The Portrait of Dorian Gray were the last two I think. I've calmed my book purchasing lately, although that may only be because I haven't found a good second hand book shop near here and because I'm waiting on the next Lions Club/Lifeline booksale ;)
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
I used to be a one book at a time person, I think that stopped working when I was trying to do year 11 and 12 - so many books to read in so little time, and uni just solidified that (trying to balance fun reading with lecture and assignment related readings). It used to work because I was a pretty fast reader.
11. Do you like re-reading books?
If they held my interest the first time round I will reread a book. Otherwise I don't go out of my way to do it, or not do it. A History of Reading (Alberto Manguel again!!) is one of those books I constantly go back to as a source of reference... even this meme is making me want to go dig it out.
Ok I admit it, I am a nerd.
Because I could actually think of answers, and because it made me happy reading hers...
01. Do you snack while you read? If so, favourite reading snack?
Hm, kind of. I do eat and read at the same time on occasion, but more often than not that tends to result in me forgetting about the snack and just continuing to read. I don't do it all that much because I hate getting crumbs between pages.
02. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
It horrified me right up until about year 12. Actually it still does, but there were a couple of books in year 12 I marked just because trying to find a quote by going through an entire book is just painful, especially if you're trying to do two essays on the same night.
03. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
A book mark, which may be even just another bit of paper or, more commonly, I memorise the page number I was up to. I don't know how my mind manages that (given how forgetful I am), but it seems to work.
04. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both?
Mostly fiction (general and fantasy), and more selective choices in non-fiction (literature, language use/development, and ancient history matters).
05. Hardcopy or audiobooks?
Not being read to. It's too awkward for me to listen to someone else reading these days. My mother does the latter (so she can cook, clean, etc) whilst "reading", but I'd rather be able to tell the story just by listening to that little voice in my head.
06. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point
Haha!! When I was little my father would come and tell me "Vivien time to go to bed" and I would beg to finish the chapter. The problem was I'd become so engrossed I wouldn't even realise I'd finished the chapter until about an hour later, when I was another 2 or 3 chapters in and had to go back through the book to find where the original chapter had finished.
07. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop to look it up right away? Write it down to look it up later? Just try to infer what it means from the rest of the sentence, and keep going?
Generally I just try and infer... I think the last word I looked up ended up being the word "catamite" which was in a Robyn Hobb novel. I think I was about 14 or 15 at the time.
08. What are you currently reading?
The library at night (Alberto Manguel), and a lot of fanfic. I'm also trying to get through a couple of Shakespeare plays... the ones I didn't read at school (Macbeth and Hamlet and Julius Caesar), but they're a little harder without cheat summaries for each scene like our high school books had. Occasionally I pick up How language works (David Crystal) and I have yet to finish The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) too.
09. What is the last book you bought?
How Language Works and The Portrait of Dorian Gray were the last two I think. I've calmed my book purchasing lately, although that may only be because I haven't found a good second hand book shop near here and because I'm waiting on the next Lions Club/Lifeline booksale ;)
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
I used to be a one book at a time person, I think that stopped working when I was trying to do year 11 and 12 - so many books to read in so little time, and uni just solidified that (trying to balance fun reading with lecture and assignment related readings). It used to work because I was a pretty fast reader.
11. Do you like re-reading books?
If they held my interest the first time round I will reread a book. Otherwise I don't go out of my way to do it, or not do it. A History of Reading (Alberto Manguel again!!) is one of those books I constantly go back to as a source of reference... even this meme is making me want to go dig it out.
Ok I admit it, I am a nerd.