Showing posts with label meme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meme. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Meme: BBAW – You and Your Reading Habits


BBAW Celebrate Books

Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? sometimes...fruit or a sandwich.
Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of
writing in books horrify you? very, very rarely do i mark them.
How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? no dog earring! i will use whatever is handy as a book mark...yarn, bookmark, a bill...i don't care.
Laying the book flat open? only in a absolute emergency
Fiction, Non-fiction, or both? both but lean heavily to fiction
Hard copy or audio books? both...audio books are great when driving or knitting one of those boring patterns.
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? i try to finish a sentence before falling asleep.
If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop to look it up right away? if i can, i look it up. if it is a foreign language, i pray i figured it out.
What are you currently reading? A SEPARATE COUNTRY
What is the last book you bought? THE MERLOT MURDERS
Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can
you read more than one at a time? i can but generally it is read one, listen one
Do you have a favorite time of day and/or place to read? uh, yes, all day and any place....never could understand people who say they just don't have time to read.
Do you prefer series books or stand alone books? i like books that can stand alone because it may be a year before the next book comes out and if it is not self contained i get frustrated.
Is there a specific book or author that you find yourself recommending over and over? for people dealing with long term illness, Herbert Tarr because you can not, really, you can not read any of his books without laughing out loud.
How do you organize your books? (By genre, title, author’s last name, etc.?)

what's on your desk wednesday


I've been tagged!

What's on your desk Wednesday? is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Sassy Brit of Alternative-Read.com . Check her blog out each Wednesday for the post titled, What's on your desk Wednesday?

You can do one of two things or both!

1.
Grab a camera and take a photo of your desk! Or anywhere you stack your books/TBR pile. And no tidying! Add this photo to your blog.Tag at least 5 people! Come back here and leave a link back to your photo in comments.
2.
List at least 5 BOOKISH things on your desk (I'm thinking your TBR pile or books you haven't shelved...) List at least 5 NON BOOK things. (I'm thinking some of some of the more unusual items on your desk/table?) Tag at least 5 people to do the same. Come back here and leave your link, so we can come and visit your blog. Or add your answers in the comments if you don't have a blog.
That little devil, Book Bird Dog, tagged me! I do have a desk...in fact I have two desks that I have not seen in about 6 months as they are not wheelchair accessible. My "desk" is a side table. The laptop is on top of my "BOOK"...no, not that kind of book, it is all the stuff I need for the "tax man". Beside that is a folded piece paper work, beside that, is my c-pap on top of which are 2 pillow covers, a pillow case, a lovely photograph that needs a frame 5 books, and the medication dh picked up for me. In front of that is my cell phone, some lip gloss a business card. There are all sorts of cords between the lap top and the c-pap as well.
I am lucky that i don't have to talk about what all is on the shelf below!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Meme: Book Talk



Psychotic State did this meme a few weeks back that I thought was sort of neat.
But if I were to follow it exactly, I wouldn’t answer most of the questions. So I
adjusted the questions to fit my interests in books. If you’d like to see the original
meme,click on Psychotic State highlighted text.

1. Do you have a favorite author?

no. i have many memorable ones
2. What are your favorite genres?

i like gothic novels but am not goth, historical fiction, biographies/memories,
westerns, murder mysteries, humor 3. Least favorite genre?

manuals, self help, religious, most sci-fi, and books with lots of really gory details.
3. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?

no
4. What genre would you like to read more of but don’t?

real humor, legends/myths/folklore
5. What was your favorite book when you were 10 years old?

books about dogs and horses by a man named thomas hinkle
(spelling is probably wrong but that was 53 years ago) 6. What books are on your wish list right now?


Rashi's Daughters, Book III: Rachel: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval

France

by Maggie Anton


Cleopatra's Daughter

by Michelle Moran


The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II

by Susan Higginbotham


Lizzi & Fredl: A Perilous Journey of Love and Faith

by William B. Stanford


The Shaman and the Rose

by Bill Haynes


Hannibal's Elephant Girl

by Ariion Kathleen Brindley


A Secret Alchemy: A Novel (P.S.)

by Emma Darwin


American on Purpose

by Craig Ferguson


To Know Evil

by Stephen Gaspar


The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire

by C. M. Mayo


Ghost Hunter: Bk. 6 (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness)

by Michelle Paver


The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder: A Novel

by Rebecca Wells


The Devil's Company: A Novel

by David Liss

from amazon

by Michele Scott
(Wine Country Mysteries) by Ellen Crosby
by Dr. William Stanford


To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis &
Clark
by Frances Hunter Chopping Spree (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 11)
by Diane Mott Davidson Sticks & Scones (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 10)
Needled to Death (Knitting Mysteries, No. 2)
by Maggie Sefton Knit One, Kill Two (Knitting Mysteries, No. 1)
by Maggie Sefton Died in the Wool: A Knitting Mystery (Knitting Mysteries)
by Mary Kruger

there are more that should be there but this is the 2nd time i have
done this as i screwed up my blog and had to fix it, during which
time i lost my entry.

it's best that we don't talk about what i have on my wish list over
at audible.com

So what about you? What book is on your wish list that you are dying to get?