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Book choices thing.
Oct. 18th, 2004 11:21 pmHardback or Paperback? For my children’s book, I mostly prefer hardbacks. For general fiction, I prefer paperbacks. But I try really hard not to crack the spines, because I'm anal like that.
Highlight or Underline? Underline, usually, but I only do that on photocopies of things, almost never in books. I've never been keen on making notes anyway, I tended to get through classes by skim reading and posing wuestions that would get us off on a tangent.
Lewis or Tolkien? Tolkien. I think. But then I also believe that more literature has been affected by Lewis.
E.B. White or A.A. Milne? A.A. Milne. Pooh, baby! Piglet and Eeyore and everyone else.
T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings? E.E Cummings, because his poems are generally shorter. I like short poetry.
Stephen King or Dean Koontz? Never read either.
Barnes & Noble or Borders? We only have Borders in this country. I don't remember any differences from when I was in the States.
Waldenbooks or B. Dalton? Don’t have either here.
Fantasy or Science Fiction? Fantasy. I'm a little unclear on the borders here, but Pratchett would be fantasy, right?
Horror or Suspense? Suspense. Dislike horror pretty intensely.
Bookmark or Dogear? BOOKMARK. ALWAYS BOOKMARK.
Hemingway or Faulkner? Not read either.
Fitzgerald or Steinbeck? Disliked all of what I’ve read from both of them.
Homer or Plato? Not read any of either. (Good lord, I’m practically illiterate.)
Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser? Ooh, I’ve read Chaucer. Only the Miller’s Tale though. I quite liked it.
Pen or Pencil? Pen.
Looseleaf or Notepad? Notepad.
Alphabetize: By Author or By Title? By AUTHOR, of course, are you INSANE? (Alphabetical by author in fiction, children’s and lit crit section, alphabetical by subject in biography and will probably be alphabetical by author within subject divisions once I get around to shelving my non-fiction properly. Aren’t you thrilled? And in children’s, within authors, it’s major series first (in series order) then chronological order, with shorter series grouped at the date of the first book in the series.)
Dustjacket: Ooh, yes. I keep them on to read myself, but usually take them off if I lend them to other people.
Novella or Epic? Um, depends on author?
John Grisham or Scott Turow? Never read either. Az wants me to read The Partner at some point, so I guess I will soon. I don’t think I’ve even heard of Scott Turow.
J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket? JK Rowling. I don’t like Lemony Snicket.
John Irving or John Updike? I’ve never read any John Updike. Come to that, I’ve only read half of one John Irving book, but I think I was enjoying it before I mysteriously stopped.
Fiction or Non-fiction? Fiction. I don’t tend to read much non-fiction at all.
Historical Biography or Historical Romance? Biography. I don’t read much romance. (Although I once read a hysterical Mills & Boon called Timber Boss (or something), in which the hero imprisons the heroine in his house (by taking away her shoes), and then tells her not to lock her door, because he can get in anyway. At the end he says ‘jokingly’ that he “should have followed my first instinct when I broke into your room. Or my second…” Ooh, beating or rape, which will it be! There is also a minor character who is in love with the hero because he once gave her a spanking when she was a young teen. It has ruined me for other romance novels.)
A Few Pages per Sitting or Finish at Least a Chapter? I don’t have hard and fast rules – I read whenever I can, for as long as I like. Usually it’s a few chapters at a time, because I read quickly.
Short Story or Creative Non-fiction Essay? Creative non-fiction essay. I don’t really like short stories, if I like something I want it to go on longer.
Buy or Borrow? Buy. I am trying not to do that so much at the moment, but I’ll be back to buying once I get back on budget.
Book Reviews or Word of Mouth? Book reviews, usually.
Highlight or Underline? Underline, usually, but I only do that on photocopies of things, almost never in books. I've never been keen on making notes anyway, I tended to get through classes by skim reading and posing wuestions that would get us off on a tangent.
Lewis or Tolkien? Tolkien. I think. But then I also believe that more literature has been affected by Lewis.
E.B. White or A.A. Milne? A.A. Milne. Pooh, baby! Piglet and Eeyore and everyone else.
T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings? E.E Cummings, because his poems are generally shorter. I like short poetry.
Stephen King or Dean Koontz? Never read either.
Barnes & Noble or Borders? We only have Borders in this country. I don't remember any differences from when I was in the States.
Waldenbooks or B. Dalton? Don’t have either here.
Fantasy or Science Fiction? Fantasy. I'm a little unclear on the borders here, but Pratchett would be fantasy, right?
Horror or Suspense? Suspense. Dislike horror pretty intensely.
Bookmark or Dogear? BOOKMARK. ALWAYS BOOKMARK.
Hemingway or Faulkner? Not read either.
Fitzgerald or Steinbeck? Disliked all of what I’ve read from both of them.
Homer or Plato? Not read any of either. (Good lord, I’m practically illiterate.)
Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser? Ooh, I’ve read Chaucer. Only the Miller’s Tale though. I quite liked it.
Pen or Pencil? Pen.
Looseleaf or Notepad? Notepad.
Alphabetize: By Author or By Title? By AUTHOR, of course, are you INSANE? (Alphabetical by author in fiction, children’s and lit crit section, alphabetical by subject in biography and will probably be alphabetical by author within subject divisions once I get around to shelving my non-fiction properly. Aren’t you thrilled? And in children’s, within authors, it’s major series first (in series order) then chronological order, with shorter series grouped at the date of the first book in the series.)
Dustjacket: Ooh, yes. I keep them on to read myself, but usually take them off if I lend them to other people.
Novella or Epic? Um, depends on author?
John Grisham or Scott Turow? Never read either. Az wants me to read The Partner at some point, so I guess I will soon. I don’t think I’ve even heard of Scott Turow.
J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket? JK Rowling. I don’t like Lemony Snicket.
John Irving or John Updike? I’ve never read any John Updike. Come to that, I’ve only read half of one John Irving book, but I think I was enjoying it before I mysteriously stopped.
Fiction or Non-fiction? Fiction. I don’t tend to read much non-fiction at all.
Historical Biography or Historical Romance? Biography. I don’t read much romance. (Although I once read a hysterical Mills & Boon called Timber Boss (or something), in which the hero imprisons the heroine in his house (by taking away her shoes), and then tells her not to lock her door, because he can get in anyway. At the end he says ‘jokingly’ that he “should have followed my first instinct when I broke into your room. Or my second…” Ooh, beating or rape, which will it be! There is also a minor character who is in love with the hero because he once gave her a spanking when she was a young teen. It has ruined me for other romance novels.)
A Few Pages per Sitting or Finish at Least a Chapter? I don’t have hard and fast rules – I read whenever I can, for as long as I like. Usually it’s a few chapters at a time, because I read quickly.
Short Story or Creative Non-fiction Essay? Creative non-fiction essay. I don’t really like short stories, if I like something I want it to go on longer.
Buy or Borrow? Buy. I am trying not to do that so much at the moment, but I’ll be back to buying once I get back on budget.
Book Reviews or Word of Mouth? Book reviews, usually.
