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adelate I couldn't resist a meme about books.
01. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?
Not really, I don't like snacking when I am doing other things. Snacking is for when you're watching tv or something. I always feel like I'll get my book dirty or something if I try to eat while reading, and that cannot be allowed.
02. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
Only in non-fiction/something I am reading for a class. All the books I read in college are marked to hell - but lovingly so, of course.
03. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
When I was younger I most definitely did the dog-eared method, then it was bookmarks, these days it's rubber bands. Then you can wear them around your wrist while your reading and then slip them around the book to mark your place when you're done for the day. Very handy.
04. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both?
I have a special love for non-fiction - Anything about literary history, theory, things like that I just devour. But then there is fiction, and really I ask you, is there anything better than a good piece of fiction?
05. Hard copy or audiobooks?
Both, I definitely have more hard copies of books, because I am a bit of a collector, I love having shelves stuffed with books. But I also love audiobooks, I am a big fan of being read to, and audiobooks sort of do that for me, but I'd love to have the hard copy of the book as well XD
06. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point?
If it's really late and my eyes are doing that fuzzy thing and there is a whole lot left in a chapter I'll stop, but most of the time I like to finish a whole chapter before I stop for the night.
07. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop to look it up right away? Write it down to look it up later? Just try to infer what it means from the rest of the sentence, and keep going?
I'll try to figure out what it means, or ask someone around me. If they don't know, or I can't figure it out I have to go find out before I can keep going.
08. What are you currently reading?
Eragon, heh. My sisters made me, and I just finished a pretty intense read and I needed something easy and fun to read before I started in on my next big book.
09. What is the last book you bought?
The Audacity of Hope
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
At any give time I am in the middle of several books, but I almost always will pick one and read it to it's conclusion after a while, before working on the others. So I suppose I'm a one at a time.
11. Do you like re-reading books?
I love re-reading books. I think it's something I've especially come to appreciate the further into my English degree I've gotten. Because books take on whole new meanings when you get new information about the world, the author, theory, things like that. So when you have new information to inform the way you read a book it becomes a whole new book, and you can do that throughout your entire life.
adelate I couldn't resist a meme about books. 01. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?
Not really, I don't like snacking when I am doing other things. Snacking is for when you're watching tv or something. I always feel like I'll get my book dirty or something if I try to eat while reading, and that cannot be allowed.
02. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
Only in non-fiction/something I am reading for a class. All the books I read in college are marked to hell - but lovingly so, of course.
03. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
When I was younger I most definitely did the dog-eared method, then it was bookmarks, these days it's rubber bands. Then you can wear them around your wrist while your reading and then slip them around the book to mark your place when you're done for the day. Very handy.
04. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both?
I have a special love for non-fiction - Anything about literary history, theory, things like that I just devour. But then there is fiction, and really I ask you, is there anything better than a good piece of fiction?
05. Hard copy or audiobooks?
Both, I definitely have more hard copies of books, because I am a bit of a collector, I love having shelves stuffed with books. But I also love audiobooks, I am a big fan of being read to, and audiobooks sort of do that for me, but I'd love to have the hard copy of the book as well XD
06. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point?
If it's really late and my eyes are doing that fuzzy thing and there is a whole lot left in a chapter I'll stop, but most of the time I like to finish a whole chapter before I stop for the night.
07. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop to look it up right away? Write it down to look it up later? Just try to infer what it means from the rest of the sentence, and keep going?
I'll try to figure out what it means, or ask someone around me. If they don't know, or I can't figure it out I have to go find out before I can keep going.
08. What are you currently reading?
Eragon, heh. My sisters made me, and I just finished a pretty intense read and I needed something easy and fun to read before I started in on my next big book.
09. What is the last book you bought?
The Audacity of Hope
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
At any give time I am in the middle of several books, but I almost always will pick one and read it to it's conclusion after a while, before working on the others. So I suppose I'm a one at a time.
11. Do you like re-reading books?
I love re-reading books. I think it's something I've especially come to appreciate the further into my English degree I've gotten. Because books take on whole new meanings when you get new information about the world, the author, theory, things like that. So when you have new information to inform the way you read a book it becomes a whole new book, and you can do that throughout your entire life.