Booking Through Thursday: Preferences

From Booking Through Thursday Which do you prefer? Reading something frivolous? Or something serious? Depends on my mood…usually serious Paperbacks? Or hardcovers? Paperbacks…easier to hold, bend, etc. Fiction? Or nonfiction? Definitely fiction Poetry? Or prose? Prose, except in the case of a very few exceptions Biographies? Or autobiographies? Autobiographies History? Or historical fiction? Historical fiction …

Booking Through Thursday: Best Books of 2008

From Booking Through Thursday It’s a week or two later than you’d expect, and it may be almost a trite question, but…what were your favorite books from 2008? If I had to pick one single best book of 2008, I would say The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It’s fantastic, creepy, shocking, gripping, and so …

Teaser Tuesdays: “The Sky Village” by Monk and Nigel Ashland

From Teaser Tuesdays TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that …

Booking Through Thursday: Conditioning

From Booking Through Thursday Are you a spine breaker? Or a dog-earer? Do you expect to keep your books in pristine condition even after you have read them? Does watching other readers bend the cover all the way around make you flinch or squeal in pain? I like my books to end up in about …

Teaser Tuesdays: “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins

From Teaser Tuesdays TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that …