Books! (A Questionnaire Thingy)
01. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?
3 Musketeers Candy Bar (The American Version, if you're from Britain and such and happen to be reading - I know it goes by a different name over there, but I can't remember what it is) and a cup of coffee. 'Tis delicious.
02. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
I never marked in my books as I read. I foolishly wrote the story number, number of episodes, and which Doctor featured in most of my Target novelizations as a kid. I...have no idea now why I did that.
03. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
I have a big bag of bookmarks that I never use anymore. These days, I tend to use a trading card of some kind. My current bookmark is a Veronica Mars promo card.
04. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both?
Almost exclusively fiction. The last time I read a non-fiction book, it was Jackie Chan's autobiography. Quite good, actually. He's led a rather interesting life.
But yeah, fiction. Usually sci-fi tv tie-in novels or superhero comics. I tend to read for enjoyment and escapism rather than out of intellectual interest.
05. Hardcopy or audiobooks?
I prefer printed matter, but I wouldn't say hardcopy. I prefer paperbacks to hardcovers.
06. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point?
I prefer reading to the end of a chapter, but I'm not as anal about that practice as I once was. If need be, I can put it down sooner. I'd rather not, but I can if I need to.
07. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop to look it up right away? Write it down to look it up later? Just try to infer what it means from the rest of the sentence, and keep going?
Keep going. Context generally provides the answer, and stopping to look it up would only slow me down.
08. What are you currently reading?
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Hard Rain by Dean Wesley Smith. This one is quite neat because it's written in part as if it really were a Dixon Hill novel. If all 40s pulp crime fiction was as amusingly bad as this, I think I might actually like to try the real thing at some point.
09. What is the last book you bought?
Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman. It's the next thing I'm going to read once I finish A Hard Rain.
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
One novel at a time, but I'm usually reading some comic book series alongside it. That way, I can switch back and forth as the mood strikes me.
11. Do you like re-reading books?
The ones I enjoyed the first time around, sure. I'd have to have a pretty good reason (or someone paying me) to re-read a book I didn't like, though...
3 Musketeers Candy Bar (The American Version, if you're from Britain and such and happen to be reading - I know it goes by a different name over there, but I can't remember what it is) and a cup of coffee. 'Tis delicious.
02. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
I never marked in my books as I read. I foolishly wrote the story number, number of episodes, and which Doctor featured in most of my Target novelizations as a kid. I...have no idea now why I did that.
03. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
I have a big bag of bookmarks that I never use anymore. These days, I tend to use a trading card of some kind. My current bookmark is a Veronica Mars promo card.
04. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both?
Almost exclusively fiction. The last time I read a non-fiction book, it was Jackie Chan's autobiography. Quite good, actually. He's led a rather interesting life.
But yeah, fiction. Usually sci-fi tv tie-in novels or superhero comics. I tend to read for enjoyment and escapism rather than out of intellectual interest.
05. Hardcopy or audiobooks?
I prefer printed matter, but I wouldn't say hardcopy. I prefer paperbacks to hardcovers.
06. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point?
I prefer reading to the end of a chapter, but I'm not as anal about that practice as I once was. If need be, I can put it down sooner. I'd rather not, but I can if I need to.
07. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop to look it up right away? Write it down to look it up later? Just try to infer what it means from the rest of the sentence, and keep going?
Keep going. Context generally provides the answer, and stopping to look it up would only slow me down.
08. What are you currently reading?
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Hard Rain by Dean Wesley Smith. This one is quite neat because it's written in part as if it really were a Dixon Hill novel. If all 40s pulp crime fiction was as amusingly bad as this, I think I might actually like to try the real thing at some point.
09. What is the last book you bought?
Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman. It's the next thing I'm going to read once I finish A Hard Rain.
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
One novel at a time, but I'm usually reading some comic book series alongside it. That way, I can switch back and forth as the mood strikes me.
11. Do you like re-reading books?
The ones I enjoyed the first time around, sure. I'd have to have a pretty good reason (or someone paying me) to re-read a book I didn't like, though...