Book Meme
I'm not going to do the 100 Things Challenge though I think it's a great idea because as soon as I see challenges like that my mind goes an instant blank and I can only think of subjects like 100 Things I have Cooked with Vegetables from my Veg Box (or "OMG, not more carrots"). Anyway, in lieu of 100 Things here's a book meme gacked from various people. For a book meme it has some quite weird questions!
1. What’s your favorite time of day to read?
Most times of the day are a good time to read but usually after lunch.
2. Do you read during breakfast? (Assuming you eat breakfast.)
No, I generally listen to a podcast on my iPod. It could be a BBC Books and Authors podcast which is about reading or Front Row which often includes stuff about books, but I don't actually read during breakfast. My hand eye co-ordination isn't that good and the cereal would probably go all over the book!
3. What’s your favorite breakfast food? (Noting that breakfast foods can be eaten any time of day.)
My *favourite* breakfast food is a full English Breakfast, but what I actually eat for breakfast is a bowl of cereal and a glass of fruit juice.
4. How many hours a day would you say you read?
I've got absolutely no idea. It depends what is meant by reading as there's the time I spend reading on the computer and the time I spend reading a book. It varies from day to day according to what I'm doing.
5. Do you read more or less now than you did, say, 10 years ago?
On the computer more, actual books probably less as I no longer commute. Believe it or not a commuter train into London is an excellent place to read as it's generally full of other people doing the same thing. Sometimes we were all reading the same book as well! It's the only thing I miss about commuting, both the guaranteed time to read and the fun of seeing what other people were reading. All the adults trying to disguise the fact they were reading Harry Potter were massively entertaining.
6. Do you consider yourself a speed reader?
Not any longer, no. I can still do it but it's only a few short steps from eyestrain to headache to migraine.
7. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Um, I thought this was to do with reading! I'm not sure that having superpowers is all it's cracked up to be so I think I would go with the ability not to have one. People with superpowers seem to lead very dangerous lives and are either tempted to the dark side or fighting the dark side. I'm not cut out for that!
8. Do you carry a book with you everywhere you go?
Not necessarily in book form but I do have my iPod Touch which has reading material (fanfic) on it with me at all times. If I'm going on a journey I certainly have a book or now a Kindle with me. I once spent a nightmare 8 hours in Verona airport with nothing to read and that's not an experience I ever want to repeat.
9. What KIND of book?
Anything that takes my interest. I'm currently on a bit of a crime fiction binge but it could just as easily be historical non-fiction or biography. It's unlikely to be a book about science but even that I couldn't rule out.
10. How old were you when you got your first library card?
As soon as it was allowed I think so probably about 5. I don't remember not having one as my dad was a great user of our local library and often used to pick books out for me that he thought I would like. It's ironic that he loathes fantasy as a genre but he's probably the person who started me reading it :)
11. What’s the oldest book you have in your collection?
That's a very good question. I've actually got no idea. The oldest book I can see is a copy of "East Lynne" by Mrs Henry Wood which looks as if it dates from the 1930s but that's J's not mine (and why he's got a copy of "East Lynne" I have no idea). Most of the old books belonging to my family are still in my parents' house including a giant tome about the Pilgrim Fathers that must have been my grandmother's Sunday School prize and probably dates from about 1900.
12. Do you read in bed?
Not any longer, no. My varifocal glasses and a husband who snores make reading in bed less comfortable than it once was. I read on the computer before I go to bed now.
13. Do you write in your books?
Never!
14. If you had one piece of advice to a new reader, what would it be?
Don't ever stop. Read as much as you can of different types of books but above all read what you love and don't let other people's critical opinion of it sway you.
15. If someone asked you for a book recommendation, what is the FIRST book you’d think to recommend (without extra thought)?
There isn't any one book. For one thing people vary and tastes differ dramatically, for another I have found that if I recommend books to people I know I invariably end up lending them and never getting them back (my brother destroys books in various creative ways and my mother instantly assumes that they are hers) so I very rarely recommend books these days. Very selfish of me I know.
1. What’s your favorite time of day to read?
Most times of the day are a good time to read but usually after lunch.
2. Do you read during breakfast? (Assuming you eat breakfast.)
No, I generally listen to a podcast on my iPod. It could be a BBC Books and Authors podcast which is about reading or Front Row which often includes stuff about books, but I don't actually read during breakfast. My hand eye co-ordination isn't that good and the cereal would probably go all over the book!
3. What’s your favorite breakfast food? (Noting that breakfast foods can be eaten any time of day.)
My *favourite* breakfast food is a full English Breakfast, but what I actually eat for breakfast is a bowl of cereal and a glass of fruit juice.
4. How many hours a day would you say you read?
I've got absolutely no idea. It depends what is meant by reading as there's the time I spend reading on the computer and the time I spend reading a book. It varies from day to day according to what I'm doing.
5. Do you read more or less now than you did, say, 10 years ago?
On the computer more, actual books probably less as I no longer commute. Believe it or not a commuter train into London is an excellent place to read as it's generally full of other people doing the same thing. Sometimes we were all reading the same book as well! It's the only thing I miss about commuting, both the guaranteed time to read and the fun of seeing what other people were reading. All the adults trying to disguise the fact they were reading Harry Potter were massively entertaining.
6. Do you consider yourself a speed reader?
Not any longer, no. I can still do it but it's only a few short steps from eyestrain to headache to migraine.
7. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Um, I thought this was to do with reading! I'm not sure that having superpowers is all it's cracked up to be so I think I would go with the ability not to have one. People with superpowers seem to lead very dangerous lives and are either tempted to the dark side or fighting the dark side. I'm not cut out for that!
8. Do you carry a book with you everywhere you go?
Not necessarily in book form but I do have my iPod Touch which has reading material (fanfic) on it with me at all times. If I'm going on a journey I certainly have a book or now a Kindle with me. I once spent a nightmare 8 hours in Verona airport with nothing to read and that's not an experience I ever want to repeat.
9. What KIND of book?
Anything that takes my interest. I'm currently on a bit of a crime fiction binge but it could just as easily be historical non-fiction or biography. It's unlikely to be a book about science but even that I couldn't rule out.
10. How old were you when you got your first library card?
As soon as it was allowed I think so probably about 5. I don't remember not having one as my dad was a great user of our local library and often used to pick books out for me that he thought I would like. It's ironic that he loathes fantasy as a genre but he's probably the person who started me reading it :)
11. What’s the oldest book you have in your collection?
That's a very good question. I've actually got no idea. The oldest book I can see is a copy of "East Lynne" by Mrs Henry Wood which looks as if it dates from the 1930s but that's J's not mine (and why he's got a copy of "East Lynne" I have no idea). Most of the old books belonging to my family are still in my parents' house including a giant tome about the Pilgrim Fathers that must have been my grandmother's Sunday School prize and probably dates from about 1900.
12. Do you read in bed?
Not any longer, no. My varifocal glasses and a husband who snores make reading in bed less comfortable than it once was. I read on the computer before I go to bed now.
13. Do you write in your books?
Never!
14. If you had one piece of advice to a new reader, what would it be?
Don't ever stop. Read as much as you can of different types of books but above all read what you love and don't let other people's critical opinion of it sway you.
15. If someone asked you for a book recommendation, what is the FIRST book you’d think to recommend (without extra thought)?
There isn't any one book. For one thing people vary and tastes differ dramatically, for another I have found that if I recommend books to people I know I invariably end up lending them and never getting them back (my brother destroys books in various creative ways and my mother instantly assumes that they are hers) so I very rarely recommend books these days. Very selfish of me I know.