A random reading-habits meme!
Yoinked from bookblather for no reason at all.
1: Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? If I'm snacking, knitting, or otherwise multitasking while reading, Ur Doin It Rong. I am a very... immersive reader.
2: Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you? If I own a book with a typo in it, I will correct the typo neatly in ink. (When I get around to it. I do own at least one book with typos that I just haven't gotten around to reading since I got my own copy.) Other than that - and other than highlighting the worst passages in That One History Book which I hate - nope, I do not write in books.
3: How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open? If I have to stop in the middle of a book, I either stick something in it (not a formal bookmark, because I never have one handy, but a tissue or something) and stick it in my pocket, or lay it facedown - the latter only if I'll be back in a minute or two.
(Sadly, this is not from any fear of Damaging My Books, but because I read a lot of paperbacks and I'm afraid someone will come along and knock it over and lose my place. *g*)
4: Fiction, nonfiction, or both?
It depends! What I think of as reading tends to be mostly fiction, but as I devour all text that comes my way, I'm sure there's a good deal of information directly implanted in my brain that came there by way of the printed word.
5: Are you a person who tends to read to the end of a chapter, or can you stop anywhere? Chapter? What is this "chapter" of which you speak? When I start a book (a fiction book, or a nonfiction book with something resembling a structural arc), I don't stop. This can really, really backfire when I sit down to read a bit "before" something.
(Unless I have the book memorized, of course. Then I might stop at the end of a favorite scene, if I was in a hurry, but why would I be re-reading a favorite book in a hurry? *g*)
6: If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop and look it up right away? Only if I can't deduce the meaning from the root terms or the context, and if it isn't obviously made up. (I was Very Srs Bsnss about the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee preliminaries for four years there, and my special trick was recognizing root languages, so... there are not a lot of words I actually have to look up Right Away. I look up more for pronunciation than meaning.)
7: What are you currently reading? See #5. I'm not currently reading anything, because I finished it and haven't started the next thing yet. ("It" was Conqueror's Pride by Timothy Zahn, for the record - amazing book, as are most of his. Brilliant writer. I'd be finishing out the series, but it's a loan from a friend and she'll only give me one book at a time because she wants them back! *g*)
8: What is the last book you bought? Unfinished Tales (Tolkien). Unless you count "Great Movie Costumes Paper Dolls" (which includes masses of nonfiction history about movie costume designers of the mid-20th century. Dover paper dolls are pretty epic.) Both were by way of closing out a Borders gift card.
9: Are you the type of person who reads one book at a time, or can you read more than one? If I had to stop reading a book in the middle for some reason and can't get back to it, I am not averse to picking up another one. But I don't have a book in the bedroom and another one in the car, or any of that.
10: Do you have a favorite time/place to read? ...I can't read in the dark very well ;-), and I prefer not to read in the bathroom. And reading in cars makes me carsick. *sadface* Other than that, fair game!
11: Do you prefer series books or stand alones? Is this actually a question? Do people judge books on whether they have serieses surrounding them? O_O
12: Is there a specific book or author you find yourself recommending over and over? Other than Basil of Baker Street (aka "the one they based The Great Mouse Detective on but it is SO MUCH BETTER"?) Um, most of my recs are pretty contextual - I don't even rec LOTR or Chesterton to just everybody. It's more a question of if I think you'll like something I like. I want to share the joy! *goofy smile*
13: How do you organize your books?(by genre, title, author’s last name, etc.) Um, by "I has a bookshelf". One bookshelf. All the same-author stuff is together, the paper dolls are together, there's a shelf of mostly DVDs - other than that, it's basically heavy stuff on the bottom.
1: Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? If I'm snacking, knitting, or otherwise multitasking while reading, Ur Doin It Rong. I am a very... immersive reader.
2: Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you? If I own a book with a typo in it, I will correct the typo neatly in ink. (When I get around to it. I do own at least one book with typos that I just haven't gotten around to reading since I got my own copy.) Other than that - and other than highlighting the worst passages in That One History Book which I hate - nope, I do not write in books.
3: How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open? If I have to stop in the middle of a book, I either stick something in it (not a formal bookmark, because I never have one handy, but a tissue or something) and stick it in my pocket, or lay it facedown - the latter only if I'll be back in a minute or two.
(Sadly, this is not from any fear of Damaging My Books, but because I read a lot of paperbacks and I'm afraid someone will come along and knock it over and lose my place. *g*)
4: Fiction, nonfiction, or both?
It depends! What I think of as reading tends to be mostly fiction, but as I devour all text that comes my way, I'm sure there's a good deal of information directly implanted in my brain that came there by way of the printed word.
5: Are you a person who tends to read to the end of a chapter, or can you stop anywhere? Chapter? What is this "chapter" of which you speak? When I start a book (a fiction book, or a nonfiction book with something resembling a structural arc), I don't stop. This can really, really backfire when I sit down to read a bit "before" something.
(Unless I have the book memorized, of course. Then I might stop at the end of a favorite scene, if I was in a hurry, but why would I be re-reading a favorite book in a hurry? *g*)
6: If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop and look it up right away? Only if I can't deduce the meaning from the root terms or the context, and if it isn't obviously made up. (I was Very Srs Bsnss about the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee preliminaries for four years there, and my special trick was recognizing root languages, so... there are not a lot of words I actually have to look up Right Away. I look up more for pronunciation than meaning.)
7: What are you currently reading? See #5. I'm not currently reading anything, because I finished it and haven't started the next thing yet. ("It" was Conqueror's Pride by Timothy Zahn, for the record - amazing book, as are most of his. Brilliant writer. I'd be finishing out the series, but it's a loan from a friend and she'll only give me one book at a time because she wants them back! *g*)
8: What is the last book you bought? Unfinished Tales (Tolkien). Unless you count "Great Movie Costumes Paper Dolls" (which includes masses of nonfiction history about movie costume designers of the mid-20th century. Dover paper dolls are pretty epic.) Both were by way of closing out a Borders gift card.
9: Are you the type of person who reads one book at a time, or can you read more than one? If I had to stop reading a book in the middle for some reason and can't get back to it, I am not averse to picking up another one. But I don't have a book in the bedroom and another one in the car, or any of that.
10: Do you have a favorite time/place to read? ...I can't read in the dark very well ;-), and I prefer not to read in the bathroom. And reading in cars makes me carsick. *sadface* Other than that, fair game!
11: Do you prefer series books or stand alones? Is this actually a question? Do people judge books on whether they have serieses surrounding them? O_O
12: Is there a specific book or author you find yourself recommending over and over? Other than Basil of Baker Street (aka "the one they based The Great Mouse Detective on but it is SO MUCH BETTER"?) Um, most of my recs are pretty contextual - I don't even rec LOTR or Chesterton to just everybody. It's more a question of if I think you'll like something I like. I want to share the joy! *goofy smile*
13: How do you organize your books?(by genre, title, author’s last name, etc.) Um, by "I has a bookshelf". One bookshelf. All the same-author stuff is together, the paper dolls are together, there's a shelf of mostly DVDs - other than that, it's basically heavy stuff on the bottom.