another book meme
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mmegaeraDo you remember how you developed a love for reading?
Being read to by my mother as early as I can remember. I particularly remember the Seuss book, Are You My Mother? My mother voiced a terrific "Snort!" said the Snort.
What are some books you read as a child?
Everything I could get my hands on, from every source available (libraries, books I inherited from my sisters, the Scholastic sales at school, gifts...) Some of my many favorites below:
Nancy Drew and her ilk (Judy Bolton was actually my favorite, but I read Nancy, the Dana Girls, Cherry Ames and Trixie Belden, too, mostly inherited from my sisters).
Elizabeth Enright's Melendy and Gone-Away Lake books
Laura Ingalls Wilder
L.M. Montgomery
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
What is your favorite genre?
Anything with Real People[tm]. I read a lot of romance, because I find a lot of them there, but my two favorite serieses are science fiction and historical mystery, respectively.
Do you have a favorite novel?
No. I have dozens.
Where do you usually read?
In bed, in the wing chair in my living room, in the resin chair on my patio, in my car (when it's parked), anywhere I might possibly be bored if I didn't have a book.
When do you usually read?
Before I go to sleep at night, if I have time when I first wake up in the morning, in the evenings, in the afternoons, whenever I have to wait for something.
Do you usually have more than one book you are reading at a time?
Oh, yes. I usually have a bed book, a kitchen table book, an end table book, and a car book.
Do you read nonfiction in a different way or place than you read fiction?
Only when I'm doing research.
Do you buy most of the books you read, or borrow them, or check them out of the library?
Yes. UBSs, the library, the occasional rampage at Powells, etc.
Do you keep most of the books you buy?
I've been known to fill a sack or two to sell back at Powells. It keeps the credit card damage down somewhat and makes room for the new stuff.
If you have children, what are some of the favorite books you have shared with them? Were they some of the same ones you read as a child?
I don't have kids. The only time I've had the chance to share a book with a young relative involved my nephew Jeff (4 at the time, he's now 34) and a volume of Shel Silverstein, whose books did not exist when I was young.
What are you reading now?
Making the Perfect Pitch by Katharine Sands, and the Stanislaski series by Nora Roberts, and I'm currently listening to The Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters. Oh, and various research stuff on the Klondike gold rush.
Do you keep a TBR (to be read) list?
No. But I do have several TBR piles. And a shelf where I keep all the library books I have out (otherwise they'd get mixed up with my own, and it would be a helluva mess).
What's next?
Dunno. More Klondike, I'm sure. I'm waiting for the audio version of Bujold's Winterfair Gifts, which got backordered [grrr]. Whatever looks good on the library shelf or in the TBR.
What books would you like to reread?
I reread (actually, relisten now that I've got the whole series in audio -- except for WG, grrr) the Vorkosigan series on at least an annual basis. Ditto for up through Lord of the Silent of the Amelia Peabodies (after that Ramses turns into a stick in the mud). I reread a lot of romances. After all, the ending isn't in question, and they're relaxing.
Who are your favorite authors?
Lois McMaster Bujold, Elizabeth Peters, Nora Roberts, Jennifer Greene, Bill Bryson, and a host of others.
Being read to by my mother as early as I can remember. I particularly remember the Seuss book, Are You My Mother? My mother voiced a terrific "Snort!" said the Snort.
What are some books you read as a child?
Everything I could get my hands on, from every source available (libraries, books I inherited from my sisters, the Scholastic sales at school, gifts...) Some of my many favorites below:
Nancy Drew and her ilk (Judy Bolton was actually my favorite, but I read Nancy, the Dana Girls, Cherry Ames and Trixie Belden, too, mostly inherited from my sisters).
Elizabeth Enright's Melendy and Gone-Away Lake books
Laura Ingalls Wilder
L.M. Montgomery
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
What is your favorite genre?
Anything with Real People[tm]. I read a lot of romance, because I find a lot of them there, but my two favorite serieses are science fiction and historical mystery, respectively.
Do you have a favorite novel?
No. I have dozens.
Where do you usually read?
In bed, in the wing chair in my living room, in the resin chair on my patio, in my car (when it's parked), anywhere I might possibly be bored if I didn't have a book.
When do you usually read?
Before I go to sleep at night, if I have time when I first wake up in the morning, in the evenings, in the afternoons, whenever I have to wait for something.
Do you usually have more than one book you are reading at a time?
Oh, yes. I usually have a bed book, a kitchen table book, an end table book, and a car book.
Do you read nonfiction in a different way or place than you read fiction?
Only when I'm doing research.
Do you buy most of the books you read, or borrow them, or check them out of the library?
Yes. UBSs, the library, the occasional rampage at Powells, etc.
Do you keep most of the books you buy?
I've been known to fill a sack or two to sell back at Powells. It keeps the credit card damage down somewhat and makes room for the new stuff.
If you have children, what are some of the favorite books you have shared with them? Were they some of the same ones you read as a child?
I don't have kids. The only time I've had the chance to share a book with a young relative involved my nephew Jeff (4 at the time, he's now 34) and a volume of Shel Silverstein, whose books did not exist when I was young.
What are you reading now?
Making the Perfect Pitch by Katharine Sands, and the Stanislaski series by Nora Roberts, and I'm currently listening to The Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters. Oh, and various research stuff on the Klondike gold rush.
Do you keep a TBR (to be read) list?
No. But I do have several TBR piles. And a shelf where I keep all the library books I have out (otherwise they'd get mixed up with my own, and it would be a helluva mess).
What's next?
Dunno. More Klondike, I'm sure. I'm waiting for the audio version of Bujold's Winterfair Gifts, which got backordered [grrr]. Whatever looks good on the library shelf or in the TBR.
What books would you like to reread?
I reread (actually, relisten now that I've got the whole series in audio -- except for WG, grrr) the Vorkosigan series on at least an annual basis. Ditto for up through Lord of the Silent of the Amelia Peabodies (after that Ramses turns into a stick in the mud). I reread a lot of romances. After all, the ending isn't in question, and they're relaxing.
Who are your favorite authors?
Lois McMaster Bujold, Elizabeth Peters, Nora Roberts, Jennifer Greene, Bill Bryson, and a host of others.
