With thanks to Marco who always has the best meme!!!
Hope to see your answers too!!!
Hardback, trade paperback or mass market paperback?
Any paperback. Hardback is just for Jeffery. Deaver.
Barnes & Noble or Borders?
Borders, but no way to find it in Italy, so I'll have to say FNAC.
Bookmark or dog-ear?
Oooops! Dog-ear, cause I always lose bookmarks and find them squashed under the bedclothes in the mornings.. or, worst even, during the nights...
Amazon or brick and mortar?
Amazon
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random?
By language and then topic and author.
Keep, throw away, or sell?
Keep the best ones, those I know I won't read again straight to the local library!
Keep dust jacket or toss it?
Toss it. Thank god paperbacks don't have one.
Read with dust jacket or remove it?
Without. And then find it under the bedclothes in the mornings or during the nights... did I say that already?
Short story or novel?
Novel. With the exception of some Short stories collections with different authors and Poe and another author whose name I don't remember at the moment and whose book I cannot find on my bookshelves and am worrying now....
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
Have to admit I did not read any Harry Potter, nor saw the movies... same with Lemony...
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
When tired. Otherwise I won't remember anything I read after I realised I was tired.
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"?
"It was a dark and stormy night"..., but I also love "I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with". Just perfect.
Buy or borrow?
Depends on my bank account. But if I borrow something REALLY good, then I must have it.
New or used?
Used
Buying choice: book reviews, recommendations, or browse?
book reviews and recommendations.
Tidy ending or cliffhanger?
Thoughtful.
Morning reading, afternoon reading, or nighttime reading?
Anytime is good, wish I could read 24/7
Stand-alone or series?
Depends.
Favourite series?
Jeffery Deaver's
Favourite children's book?
Raperonzolo! Can't remember the name in English, but it's similar. Fairy tales, anyway.
Favourite YA book?
Wuthering Heights.
Favourite book of which nobody else has heard?
1) Jude the Obscure
2) Tamburlaine the great
3) Under the jaguar sun
4) Ash Wednesday
5) The last song of Dust
Favourite books read last year?
The Falls, by J.C. Oates; On beauty, by Z. Smith
Least favourite book you finished last year?
Oceano mare........... hated it!
What are you reading right now?
Gone, by J. Kellerman
What are you reading next?
Literary London
Favourite book to recommend to an eleven-year-old?
White Fang
Favourite books to reread?
Any Jeffery Deaver, any 19th century British novelist.
Do you ever smell books?
YEP!!!
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We certainly have vastly different tastes in books. I have read all the Harry Potter books, but as I've got two books on the go at the moment (The Cogwheel Brain by Doron Swade - the history of Babbage's engines) and a book about the development of Colossus at Bletchley Park during WWII, I'm holding off starting the last HP book. I've also got an Ian Rankin book left over from Christmas to read (The Naming of the Dead). He's a wonderful crime writer whose novels are set in Edinburgh. Great books if you like that genre, but read them in order. Thanks for the congratulations by the way.
You are welcome David!
I might start Ian Rankin if you suggest it, but tell me with which one I have to begin!
Raperonzolo... non e' Rumpelstiltskin?
Credevo che Jude the Obscure fosse piuttosto noto... mentre di Ash Wednesday ho visto il film (sempre se e' lo stesso Ash Wednesday), non male a parte la presenza di Elijah "ho gli occhioni quindi non serve che reciti" Wood...
Credo che il film non abbia niente a che fare con il libro. Una coppia di giovani un po' sbandati che attraversa gli Stati Uniti in macchina e cerca di capire se sono fatti per stare insieme o meno...
...no, nulla a che fare! Quello era un film sulla malavita di Chicago.
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