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First Lines
Now, instead of working...to continue with the first-line memes, here are some classic first-lines. I've tried to avoid ones which 'give it away' - so no, there is no Pride and Prejudice here! As a hint, these are all books I read while growing up (though they aren't all child's lit) and all of them can be found on Gutenberg (so if you haven't read ( Read more... ) -
Booking Through Thursday: Let's Review
Oh look, it's Thursday! It hasn't been Thursday on my LJ for a very long time...
How much do reviews (good and bad) affect your choice of reading? If you see a bad review of a book you wanted to read, do you still read it? If you see a good review of a book you’re sure you won’t like, do you change your mind and give the book a try?
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LT Meme (sheep)
These are the top 200 193 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book. (and for me, ! are books on my to be ( Read more... ) -
Booking Through Thursday: Goldilocks
Do you need the light just right, the background noise just so loud but not too loud, the chair just right, the distractions at a minimum ( Read more... ) -
Booking Through Thursday: Stats
There was a widely bruited-about statistic reported last week, stating that 1 in 4 Americans did not read a single book last year. Clearly, we don’t fall into that category, but . . . how many of our friends do? Do you have friends/family who read as much as you do? Or are you the only person you know who has a serious reading habit?
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Boooking Through Thursday: Monogamy
One book at a time? Or more than one? If more, are they different types/genres? Or similar?
It depends. I've usually one non-fiction on the side, because I can't read non-fiction all the way through in one fell swoop. Fiction books, however, are usually read in quick succession, so I'm not reading more than one at a time since I try to finish them ( Read more... ) -
Booking Through Thursday: Multiples
Do you have multiple copies of any of your books?
I have 3 copies of Master and Commander - 2 original paperbacks and one in the omnibus set. With elwe 's additional 1 or 2 (or so)... That said, the one paperback set (including xallanthia's gifts of the next two books) is my loner set, the box set I also have bought 3 copies of Sabriel... and only have one ( Read more... ) -
Booking Through Thursday: Just Wild About Harry
1. Okay, love him or loathe him, you’d have to live under a rock not to know that J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, comes out on Saturday… Are you going to read it?
In short, yes - eventually :)
2. If so, right away? Or just, you know, eventually, when you get around to it? Are you attending any of the ( Read more... ) -
Booking Through Thursday: Celluoid
1. In your opinion, what is the best translation of a book to a movie? (or mini-series)
Master and Commander is the best translation of a book - or a series, as it were, since as a book-to-movie translation it's impossibly inaccurate, but I really do think it's a fitting trailer for the entire series. I do excuse the casting inaccuracies here ( ( Read more... ) -
Booking through Thursday: One Last Thing
Almost everyone can name at least one author that you would love just ONE more book from. Either because they’re dead, not being published any more, not writing more, not producing new work for whatever reason . . . or they’ve aged and aren’t writing to their old standards any more . . . For whatever reason, there just hasn’t been anything new (or ( Read more... )