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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Booking Through Thursday: Coupling
“Name a favorite literary couple and tell me why they are a favorite. If you cannot choose just one, that is okay too. Name as many as you like–sometimes narrowing down a list can be extremely difficult and painful. Or maybe that’s just me.” I’m probably not thinking of tons of great couples, but the …
Booking Through Thursday: What’s Sitting on Your Shelf?
From Booking Through Thursday What tomes are waiting patiently on your shelves? Oh my. So very many. Mostly fiction, a lot of classics and older, obscure books. I also have a bookshelf of memoirs in which I’ve hardly made a dent. There are several factors to blame for my current state. First, I had a …
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