Books, Books, Books.
1. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?
Not really. I usually read after I've just finished a meal, so there's no need for snacking.
2. What is your favorite drink while reading?
Tea or coffee. Definitely.
3. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
I dont believe that marking passages or writing comments in books is a mortal sin. Rather, I think it adds to the general reading experience.
4. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ear? Laying the book flat open?
I would normally use a bookmark, or a photograph to keep my place.
5. Fiction, Non-Fiction, or Both?
Definitely both, especially if it's history related (I'm such a history nerd).
6. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of a chapter, or can you stop anywhere?
I'd prefer to read to the end of a chapter or part, but since I dont get a lot of time to dedicate to reading I squeeze in whatever I can whenever I get a few spare minutes, so quite often I have to put the book down mid-paragraph.
7. Are you a person to throw a book across the room or on the floor if the author irritates you?
I've never thrown a book. Now that would be a mortal sin! Although, I've certainly felt like it with a few books I've read...
8. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop and look it up right away?
Depends. If it really, really annoys me not knowing what it means, and if I'm unable to work out its meaning from the rest of the sentence/paragraph, then I'll get out the dictionary.
9. What are you currently reading?
Jane Austen's Selected Letters.
10. What is the last book you bought?
The Cave by Kate Mosse, from the Book Depository, although I am still waiting for it to arrive in the post.
11. Are you a person that reads one book at a time, or can you read more than one?
Only one at a time. I think each story deserves my absolute attention.
12. Do you have a favorite time/place to read?
I love reading late afternoon at any time of the year, curled up in a comfy armchair with the sun shining in through the window. It doesnt happen very often these days, though!
13. Do you prefer series books or stand-alones?
I'm honestly not fussed. I'll read either, but with series I like to try and read them in their correct order.
14. Is there a specific book or author you find yourself recommending over and over?
Anything by Jane Austen. Obviously.
Philippa Gregory & Alison Weir for people who like their history and hist-fic, especially Tudor England.
Wicked by Gregory Maguire.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery.
15. How do you organize your books? By genre, title, author's last name, etc?
Size. Largest to smallest, left to right, on each row of the bookshelf. I'm a stiffler for this: If anyone takes a book out and puts it back in the wrong place it drives me nuts!
Stolen from craving_vintage .
Mosiac particulars:
1. Les élans du coeur, 2. Your Routine Smells Stale, 3. Ode to Ordinary Friends: my books, 4. for molly, 5. Candy Apple Cafe, 6. Sakura last days here..., 7. Keep it under perspective..., 8. Day 108 - Cyberpunk librarian, 9. Camdyn's colorful bookshelf!, 10. A thousand worlds she keeps., 11. 18th century Bastille ~ filling time, 12. Memoirs of a student of literature, 13. Inside World, 14. 0518, 15. In Control, 16. Hf30He63Dg12²Ob276, 17. Untitled, 18. i'm your book of the month, read the fine print later., 19. day one hundred eighty nine, 20. Untitled, 21. Books & Flowers, 22. thirty nine | happy bench monday, books i love edition, 23. Reading of the rising sun! / Lecture du soleil levant!, 24. There's No Escaping It, 25. Treasured Books