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http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0071474072&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrThis week’s Booking Through Thursday Question was: What’s the largest, thickest, heaviest book you ever read? Was it because you had to? For pleasure? For school? It seems like it is the one I am currently using to study for an exam: The Complete… Continue Reading “BTT: Heavy”
The Booking through Thursday question was: “What magazines/journals do you read?” Once upon a time, I read so many magazines that I couldn’t count them. Pet magazines, cooking magazines (as if I ever really cooked), People. I would grab one every single time I… Continue Reading “BTT: Periodically”
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0395401461&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrThe Question was: Do you remember the first book you bought for yourself? Or the first book you checked out of the library? What was it and why did you choose it? I was extremely lucky in that my parents bought me lots of… Continue Reading “BTT: First Book”
Booking Through Thursday asked: What’s the best book you read this year? Worst? Favorite? Links are to the thoughts I wrote out at the time I read them. I am eliminating re-reads from contention, and can still only narrow it down to three Bests:… Continue Reading “BTT: Annual Review”
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=leartojugg-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0142000671&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrWhich Book Changed Your Life? Hm. My gut reaction to this one is, “No one book changed my life. Books in general changed my life.” But in an attempt to get in the spirit of the question, I am going with Of Mice and… Continue Reading “BTT- Life-Changing”
The question was: If you could be a character from any book, who would you be? And why? I am so sorry to say that since Sherlock Holmes had a drug habit, and Indiana Jones went to the Temple of Doom, and Princess Leia… Continue Reading “BTT – Character”
The question was: Do you ever crave reading crappy books? I presume that “crappy books” means “guilty pleasures” or “brain candy” and so the answer is: Not for very long, because I will just go ahead and read them. My guiltiest pleasure is Dominick… Continue Reading “BTT – Brain Candy”
Who would you rather borrow from? Your library? Or a Friend?(Or don’t your friends trust you to return their books?) And, DO you return books you borrow? I would rather borrow from the library. I know exactly how long I can use it without… Continue Reading “BTT – Borrowing?”
Weekend Assignment # 342: Read It Again Some people like to read a book once, and then they’re done. The plot is resolved and they know whodunnit, so it’s time to move on to the next book. Other people reread a favorite book every… Continue Reading “Re-Reads”
In honor of Halloween this weekend: What reading skeletons do you have in your closet? Books you’d be ashamed to let people know you love? Addiction to the worst kind of (fill in cheesy genre here)? Your old collection of Bobbsey Twin Mysteries lovingly… Continue Reading “BTT – Skeletons”
The Next Dark Age 