Dogs; your favourite fictional canine.
Effort(less), a book that took some to finish or that you flew through.
Charisma; the last character to win you over.
Emphatically no! A book that has been recommended to you that you really don’t want to read.
Misogyny; the last book with attitudes to women that made you grind your teeth.
Brown study; the ( Read more... )

For all of us not actively participating in NaPoWriMo, here's a non-poem-related meme to keep the wolves from the door. Y'know, the wolves who get hungry for ... book memes. No, okay, that metaphor isn't going anywhere ( Read more... )

What's the most unusual book you own?
What's the most unusual book you've read?
What's the most unusual thing you're using as a book-end?
What's the most unusual thing you're using as a book-mark?
Where's the most unusual place you keep books?

Pick between five and ten books that chart the course of your life's reading journey - you can choose yearly favourites (if you know what you were reading that accurately) or use a more intuitive selection. Add a little bit about where you were at personally when you were reading them (if you don't mind sharing) or just let them act as stations on ( Read more... )

* Grab your current read ( Read more... )

Choose ten random books from your shelves and tell us in a post what they say about you.

If posting to the comm: feel free to make a new post and/or use cover images, but please cut for length :)

[Found most recently on the Other Stories blog.]

Create between 1 and 5 icons representing your favourite book[s] without using the title, (or well-known characters from the movie adaptation O.O). Post it/them to your journal* and see who can identify them! Quotes are allowed, of course, but you can be as inventive as you want!

*link them here too, we'd love to play!

Tell us about your best book shop find[s]... you're browsing your local thrift store / second hand bookshop / grandparent's shelves and you find the best book ever. Perhaps you don't know it until you get it home and read it, but you're intrigued. You've wanted a copy for a long time. Or it's ridiculously cheap, or an amazingly rare copy, signed ( Read more... )

This is a simple one ( Read more... )

Fun little survey [via hitchhiker] - rattle off the first 15 books you can think of that will always stick with you.

( My answers )