This meme looks fun

So, all about books.

Are you careful with the spines? Or do you crack your books open to make them lay flat?

Oh dead careful - I try to make sure I never break them, and I wince if they crack.

Do you use bookmarks? Or do you dog-ear the corners? If you do use bookmarks, do you use those fashionable metal ones? Or paper? I ( Read more... )

By way of a holding post. I have just returned from visiting the Fabulous One, and rather than write about that I thought I'd do a book meme. This is the Observer's list of 100 greatest novels.

As usual bolded ones are ones I've read.

1. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan ( Read more... )

I was surprised today to get a comment on my writing/book blog from an author. He had read a review I wrote of his book and was dead chuffed with what I said.

And why not? It was a good book! A Game of Soldiers came out earlier this year, and I would thoroughly recommend it.

Actually I'm dead chuffed that he read my review!

List gacked from scieppan

Ones I've read in bold. I haven't read a huge number of these, although that's hardly surprising since a lot of them are about sex education. In fact I've probably read all the ones I want to read from it, with the exception of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, which I really must make an effort to read some day.
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For the bibliophiles among you this is REALLY shiny!

Library Thing

Gacked from just about everybody, although I'm sure I did one of these last year. Come to think of it, it might have been a different list of all time top banned books. I've never heard of a lot of these books, and have no desire to read quite a few of them.Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've read part of. Underline the ones you ( Read more... )

I spent my Christmas book tokens today. And then some ( Read more... )