1. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?
Depends where I’m reading, and what. However, I have been known to indulge, yes. Sometimes one needs biscuits or salty snacks to go with tea... or chocolate. Dark, dark chocolate.
2. What is your favorite drink while reading?
See above, re: tea.
3. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
I did in college, but it still bothers me some. I prefer to take notes either in a notebook or on my laptop.
4. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ear? Laying the book flat open?
Yes. Guilty of all. I tend to use random scraps of paper as bookmarks, but in lieu will dog ear or lay open... only with paperbacks though. Hardcovers require some form of non-damaging marker.
5. Fiction, Non-Fiction, or Both?
Fiction. I know I should read more non-fiction, but when I want to read most often it is because I want to escape. It’s difficult to escape in non-fiction.
6. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of a chapter, or can you stop anywhere?
I try to make it to a chapter end, but I’ll stop wherever is necessary.
7. Are you a person to throw a book across the room or on the floor if the author irritates you?
Oh. Hell. Yes. It’s rare I get that worked up. Very rare. But it has been known to happen... (Joseph Andrews, Wuthering Heights, a couple Dracula-related novels, etc.)
8. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop and look it up right away?
Not typically. I usually figure it out from context, but in the rare instance I don’t I may look it up, especially if I’m near Google.
9. What are you currently reading?
Fred Saberhagen’s The Dracula Tape, the Norton Critical Dracula, Leslie Klinger’s annotated Dracula and Syrie James’ Dracula, My Love (is there a theme there?)
10. What is the last book you bought?
Dracula, My Love
11. Are you a person that reads one book at a time, or can you read more than one?
See #9
12. Do you have a favorite time/place to read?
Always? Is always an acceptable answer? I tend to read at night, in bed and recently at work during breaks, outside.
13. Do you prefer series books or stand-alones?
It just depends on the story and characters. Some stories you can tell in one book and I’ll be satisfied. Others by nature require multiple books and I only doubt my liking for them when it takes too long to get the next book in the series (*cough* Jasper Fforde and Kate Cary *cough*).
14. Is there a specific book or author you find yourself recommending over and over?
I always recommend Dracula (surprise!). I tend to ask what someone likes before offering recommendations, but I often recommend various books by Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Jasper Fforde, and my favorite books by women: The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
15. How do you organize your books? By genre, title, author's last name, etc?
Genre... then, depending on the genre I go by author or chronology (yes, my 18th-19th century English literature section is organized chronologically).
Depends where I’m reading, and what. However, I have been known to indulge, yes. Sometimes one needs biscuits or salty snacks to go with tea... or chocolate. Dark, dark chocolate.
2. What is your favorite drink while reading?
See above, re: tea.
3. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
I did in college, but it still bothers me some. I prefer to take notes either in a notebook or on my laptop.
4. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ear? Laying the book flat open?
Yes. Guilty of all. I tend to use random scraps of paper as bookmarks, but in lieu will dog ear or lay open... only with paperbacks though. Hardcovers require some form of non-damaging marker.
5. Fiction, Non-Fiction, or Both?
Fiction. I know I should read more non-fiction, but when I want to read most often it is because I want to escape. It’s difficult to escape in non-fiction.
6. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of a chapter, or can you stop anywhere?
I try to make it to a chapter end, but I’ll stop wherever is necessary.
7. Are you a person to throw a book across the room or on the floor if the author irritates you?
Oh. Hell. Yes. It’s rare I get that worked up. Very rare. But it has been known to happen... (Joseph Andrews, Wuthering Heights, a couple Dracula-related novels, etc.)
8. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop and look it up right away?
Not typically. I usually figure it out from context, but in the rare instance I don’t I may look it up, especially if I’m near Google.
9. What are you currently reading?
Fred Saberhagen’s The Dracula Tape, the Norton Critical Dracula, Leslie Klinger’s annotated Dracula and Syrie James’ Dracula, My Love (is there a theme there?)
10. What is the last book you bought?
Dracula, My Love
11. Are you a person that reads one book at a time, or can you read more than one?
See #9
12. Do you have a favorite time/place to read?
Always? Is always an acceptable answer? I tend to read at night, in bed and recently at work during breaks, outside.
13. Do you prefer series books or stand-alones?
It just depends on the story and characters. Some stories you can tell in one book and I’ll be satisfied. Others by nature require multiple books and I only doubt my liking for them when it takes too long to get the next book in the series (*cough* Jasper Fforde and Kate Cary *cough*).
14. Is there a specific book or author you find yourself recommending over and over?
I always recommend Dracula (surprise!). I tend to ask what someone likes before offering recommendations, but I often recommend various books by Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Jasper Fforde, and my favorite books by women: The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
15. How do you organize your books? By genre, title, author's last name, etc?
Genre... then, depending on the genre I go by author or chronology (yes, my 18th-19th century English literature section is organized chronologically).
Fun! I want to play!
ReplyDelete1. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?
I generally read in the bath or in bed, so no. But I know a book is really good if I can't put it down while I'm eating lunch.
2. What is your favorite drink while reading?
Earl Grey tea.
3. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
I don't write in the books because they are generally from the library. I have read library books before that other people wrote notes in, and it's ANNOYING.
4. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ear? Laying the book flat open?
Dog-ear forever!
5. Fiction, Non-Fiction, or Both?
Both. I just go to the "new" section at the library and pull out whatever looks interesting.
6. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of a chapter, or can you stop anywhere?
I stop wherever.
7. Are you a person to throw a book across the room or on the floor if the author irritates you?
I can't recall having done that. But I am definitely the kind of person who will stop reading anything boring immediately. I don't know who's smoking crack on the Pulitzer Prize committee these days, but snore.
8. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop and look it up right away?
Fuck that.
9. What are you currently reading?
I just finished Sarah Silverman's "The Bedwetter" and a book about not eating in restaurants called "The Art of Eating In". So, I'm between books.
10. What is the last book you bought?
Oh, man, it's been a while. Um, it was a gift for a friend, the Robert Crumb version of "Genesis". I read a library copy of it, though, and it's amazing.
11. Are you a person that reads one book at a time, or can you read more than one?
Unless a book is AMAZING, I usually juggle two or three at the same time.
12. Do you have a favorite time/place to read?
I read every night in the bathtub.
13. Do you prefer series books or stand-alones?
Series seem like too much work to me.
14. Is there a specific book or author you find yourself recommending over and over?
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog", "The Bloody Chamber", and "Valley of the Dolls".
15. How do you organize your books? By genre, title, author's last name, etc?
I don't actually own that many books, so they're just hanging out together on our bookshelves. One shelf is for my husband, and the other one is mine.