Book and Reading Meme
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viciousdisorder.
01. Do you snack while you read? If so, favourite reading snack?
Not usually. Sometimes I read while I'm having breakfast or lunch (only if I'm eating alone), but I don't usually eat while I'm reading. I'm usually too focussed on the book. I even forget to be hungry when I'm reading.
02. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
I love marking books, but I don't always have a pencil with me. I like underlining bits I liked or scribbling comments in the margins. I also love reading other peoples' margin scribbles.
03. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
I use bookmarks, even if the bookmark is the reciept from buying the book, or sometimes I remember the page number when I don't have a bookmark handy. I hate dog ears.
04. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both?
Both. I own more fiction, but I like reading both. Most of my non-fiction reading probably comes from newspapers and magazines like National Geographic.
05. Hardcopy or audiobooks?
I've listened to some audiobooks but I much prefer reading for myself (I can skip through pages back and forth to look something up or to peek ahead), and when I'm listening to audiobooks I tend to find myself wanting to read other things at the same time too, which really doesn't work.
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?
I have to put books down at random points when I'm reading at work and get called to do something. But usually I try to end my reading at a scene break.
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 usually just keep going, because often the context explains it. Occasionally I go look up a word. The last one I looked up was "antebellum".
08. What are you currently reading?
Tanya Huff's The Heart of Valor. It feels wrong spelling "valour" like that. I love the universe she's created, the different alien species and their eccentricities. What I love most is that in her universe not all sapient species have two legs (a sci-fi cliché that's always bugged me), like the Mictock, who have eight legs, and the Krai, who have prehensile hands and feet, like monkeys.
09. What is the last book you bought?
Four books at once: Kathy Reichs' Déjà Dead, Claire McNab's Death Down Under, Phillip Scott's Get Over It, and Samuel R. Delany's They Fly at Çiron.
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
Ha! I really should stick to one book at a time but I read so slowly these days (3 days to a week to finish one novel) because I have less time to read that I tend to discover a new book before I've finished the previous one, so I pick up the new one as well because I can't wait to get started, which leads to me taking even longer to read one book because it's not the only one I'm reading.
11. Do you like re-reading books?
Yes, if I get the chance. There are so many I want to re-read right now.
viciousdisorder.01. Do you snack while you read? If so, favourite reading snack?
Not usually. Sometimes I read while I'm having breakfast or lunch (only if I'm eating alone), but I don't usually eat while I'm reading. I'm usually too focussed on the book. I even forget to be hungry when I'm reading.
02. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
I love marking books, but I don't always have a pencil with me. I like underlining bits I liked or scribbling comments in the margins. I also love reading other peoples' margin scribbles.
03. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
I use bookmarks, even if the bookmark is the reciept from buying the book, or sometimes I remember the page number when I don't have a bookmark handy. I hate dog ears.
04. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both?
Both. I own more fiction, but I like reading both. Most of my non-fiction reading probably comes from newspapers and magazines like National Geographic.
05. Hardcopy or audiobooks?
I've listened to some audiobooks but I much prefer reading for myself (I can skip through pages back and forth to look something up or to peek ahead), and when I'm listening to audiobooks I tend to find myself wanting to read other things at the same time too, which really doesn't work.
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?
I have to put books down at random points when I'm reading at work and get called to do something. But usually I try to end my reading at a scene break.
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 usually just keep going, because often the context explains it. Occasionally I go look up a word. The last one I looked up was "antebellum".
08. What are you currently reading?
Tanya Huff's The Heart of Valor. It feels wrong spelling "valour" like that. I love the universe she's created, the different alien species and their eccentricities. What I love most is that in her universe not all sapient species have two legs (a sci-fi cliché that's always bugged me), like the Mictock, who have eight legs, and the Krai, who have prehensile hands and feet, like monkeys.
09. What is the last book you bought?
Four books at once: Kathy Reichs' Déjà Dead, Claire McNab's Death Down Under, Phillip Scott's Get Over It, and Samuel R. Delany's They Fly at Çiron.
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
Ha! I really should stick to one book at a time but I read so slowly these days (3 days to a week to finish one novel) because I have less time to read that I tend to discover a new book before I've finished the previous one, so I pick up the new one as well because I can't wait to get started, which leads to me taking even longer to read one book because it's not the only one I'm reading.
11. Do you like re-reading books?
Yes, if I get the chance. There are so many I want to re-read right now.
