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Booking Through Thursday (23)

September 25, 2008

It’s nice to be back answering BTT memes, after a two-week hiatus while on vacation. Here’s today’s meme: What was the most unusual (for you) book you ever read? Either because the book itself was completely from out in left field somewhere, or was a genre you never read, or was the only book available [...]

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Booking Through Thursday (22)

September 4, 2008

Today’s meme is about peer pressure: Have you ever felt pressured to read something because ‘everyone else’ was reading it? Have you ever given in and read the book(s) in question or do you resist? If you are a reviewer, etc, do you feel it’s your duty to keep up on current trends? I do [...]

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Booking Through Thursday (21)

August 28, 2008

Today’s meme, of sorts: If you’re anything like me, one of your favorite reasons to read is for the story. Not for the character development and interaction. Not because of the descriptive, emotive powers of the writer. Not because of deep, literary meaning hidden beneath layers of metaphor. (Even though those are all good things.) [...]

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Booking Through Thursday (20)

August 21, 2008

This week’s meme prompts a trip down memory lane: Whether you usually read off of your own book pile or from the library shelves NOW, chances are you started off with trips to the library. (There’s no way my parents could otherwise have kept up with my book habit when I was 10.) So … [...]

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Booking Through Thursday (19) & Recent Books Meme

August 14, 2008

BOOKING THROUGH THURSDAY Today’s BTT meme: First: Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general? Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both? Second: Do you consider yourself a sports fan? Because, of course, if you’re a rabid fan and read about sports constantly, there’s a logic there; if you [...]

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Booking Through Thursday (18)

August 7, 2008

This week’s thought-inspiring meme: Are there any particular worlds in books where you’d like to live? Or where you certainly would NOT want to live? What about authors? If you were a character, who would you trust to write your life? Hmmm…this is a tricky one. Realistically, I don’t think I would actually like to [...]

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Booking Through Thursday (17)

July 31, 2008

Today’s meme is the opposite of last week’s meme: What are your favourite final sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its last sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the last line? Let’s see. I do not specifically remember any [...]

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Booking Through Thursday (16)

July 24, 2008

Today’s meme: What are your favourite first sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its first sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the first line? The best first line I’ve ever encountered: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a [...]

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