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Booking through Thursday: History
On Thursday, August 25th, Booking through Thursday asked: Sometimes I feel like the only person I know who finds reading history fascinating. It’s so full of amazing-yet-true stories of people driven to the edge and how they reacted to it. I keep telling friends that a good history book (as opposed to some of those … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: National Book Week
On Thursday, August 11th, Booking through Thursday asked: It’s National Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you. Go to page 56. Copy the 5th sentence as your status My sentence is from Kiss My Tiara by Susan Jane Gilman: I’d been reading a lot of Rimbaud and I guess something about the … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: Character
On Thursday, December 16th, Booking through Thursday asked: If you could be a character from any book, who would you be? And why? I must not be taking my multivitamins because I swear there was no Booking Through Thursday prompt when I wrote my piece on the 17th. I guess I must have missed it. … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: First
On Thursday, December 2nd, Booking through Thursday asked: How about First Editions? Are they something special? Or “just another book” to you? Since the nice folks at BTT didn’t share a prompt this week, I’m answering one that I skipped. So, First Editions. To be honest, I’m not a used book fan. I think used … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: Crappy
On Thursday, December 9th, Booking through Thursday asked: Do you ever crave reading crappy books? On the surface this seems like an easy question, akin to, “Hey do you want to wake up with cerebral palsy tomorrow morning?” You’d think the answer would be a resounding “No.” You’d think anyone would have to be nuts … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: Thankful
On Thursday, November 25th, Booking through Thursday asked: It’s Thanksgiving here in the U.S. of A. so … What authors and books are you most thankful for? I was born within the sound of the ocean if not the sight, and one of the first sounds I remember is that of foghorns. Now, living hundreds … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: Borrowing
On Thursday, November 18th, Booking through Thursday asked: Who would you rather borrow from? Your library? Or a Friend? (Or don’t your friends trust you to return their books?) And, DO you return books you borrow? I could not begin to tell you what diet pills really work but I can tell you that my … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: Rewrite
On Thursday, October 14th, Booking through Thursday asked: If you could rewrite the ending of any book, which book would it be? And how would you change it? Even though I have a laptop and a netbook and an iPhone and a Kindle already, I spent a good part of last night surfing laptop deals … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: Travel
On Thursday, October 7th, Booking through Thursday asked: When you travel, how many books do you bring with you? Has this changed since the arrival of ebooks? There are three things that determine how many books I bring with me on a trip: why am I going, where I am going, and how long I … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday: Current
On Thursday, September 23rd, Booking through Thursday asked: What are you reading right now? What made you choose it? Are you enjoying it? Would you recommend it? (And, by all means, discuss everything, if you’re reading more than one thing!) I have a stack of books I have to review that is growing exponentially this … Continue reading
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