Booking Through Thursday – Burn

 

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly bookish meme held over on Booking Through Thursday!

If your house was burning down and you could save just one book from your collection … what would it be?

(And, for the purposes of this discussion, we’ll allow series to count as “one” long, multi-volume book.)

Can i cheat and save my kindle? that has over 150 books on at the minute and i would be very upset if i lost that!

If we are talking actual books i would like to save Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgeson Bennett. Its a hardback book that belonged to my Grandmother. This book was actually brought by her Mother and is over 100 years old. It is so precious to me I’ve never read it for fear of damaging it.

 

Booking Through Thursday – Periodically

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So other than books … what periodicals do you read? Magazines? Newspapers? Newsletters? Journals?

Do you subscribe? Or do you buy them on the newsstand when they look interesting?

Well I would love to say i subscribe to something high-brow and intellectual like The Times or something, but i just don’t hehe! I read the occasional glossy magazine if i come across one i fancy in the supermarket but that’s about it. Magazines like Cosmopolitan or Glamour or things like that.

I do read the two local newspapers that come through the door every week, i do think its nice to see what is going in my area, normally nothing too exciting though!

The  main thing i read other than books though is blogs . . . about books! I love reading about what others are reading, their thoughts and comments. I’ve grown my wishlist so much because of this addiction hehe.

Booking Through Thursday – Quoteable

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly bookish meme held over on the blog with the same name.

A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I got some great responses and will be picking out some of the questions from time to time to ask the rest of you. Like now.

Valentina asks:

Do you have a favorite quote from a book?

Now I know a lot of people will come up with some amazing and iconic literary quotes from some amazing books. I cant think of any quotes that are like that but i can think of the book that i have recently read that has the best opening line that i possibly have ever come across.

‘I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining board, which I have padded with our dog’s blanket and the tea cosy.’

This is a quote from I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. I loved this book when i read it for the first time this year. I think this line just draws you in and makes you want to read more.

Booking Through Thursday – Secondly

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Mervih asks:

Favorite secondary characters? (Note the plural)

One of  my favourite secondary characters is Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series. She is a bookworm (always a good thing!) very clever but at the same time it doesn’t make her all that popular with others at Hogwarts. However, without her help Harry would struggle throughout the series as she is always on hand with her knowledge.

Along the same theme i like Merry and Pippin from the Lord of the Rings series. They are a double act and bring some light relief to the story to start with but towards the end of the trilogy they become serious members of the story and its almost like they have grown up.

Booking Through Thursday – DIY

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly bookish meme held over on Booking Through Thursday!

A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I got some great responses and will be picking out some of the questions from time to time to ask the rest of you. Like now.

Cathy De Los Santos asks:

If you could write a book, what would it be about, and why? (Though, of course, some of you already HAVE.)

It is one of the things on my ultimate to do list to write a book. When i was younger, a lot younger, i used to make up short stories around the Enid Blyton books.

I do have an idea in my head for a story. It’s a young adult book and it’s not about vampires or werewolves. I don’t have anything against these books, but just how many of them are there out there? I’d like to do something different! It would be a modern-day St Claires or Mallory Towers book. Just see how much influence Enid Blyton has had on me!

Hopefully one day I’ll put pen to paper!

Booking Through Thursday – Pet Names

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly bookish meme held over on Booking Through Thursday!

This weeks question asks,

A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I got some great responses and will be picking out some of the questions from time to time to ask the rest of you. Like now.

Lu asks

Do you have any pet that has a name inspired by your readings?

If not, what would you pick if you DID?

Do any of your friends have book-based names for their pets? (Or their children?)

Both my dogs have book inspired names although only one was intentional. My first dog we had we named Sam, just because we liked the name. It wasnt until after we realised that it’s quite a popular name, and is out of my mum’s favourite ever book The Lord of the Rings. The second dog that we got last year was a rescue dog and his name was Pumpkin, but we could change it if we wanted. We needed to change it to something beginning with the letter P, so i really wanted to tie his name in with the other dog, so i chose Pippin. So we have half the hobbits in our house, and for the minute that’s how it will stay!

Now i don’t have any children, but i do like to discuss baby names with my boyfriend, and the only names we seem to agree on its characters from Twilight!

For a girl i like Alice, Rosalie and Isabella and for a boy i like Jasper! However i do love reading character names in books and i can safely say my children will have book inspired names!

Booking Through Thursday – Live in

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme held over on Booking Through Thursday.

A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I got some great responses and will be picking out some of the questions from time to time to ask the rest of you. Like now.

abookandashortlatte1 asks

If you had to choose to live within a novel, which would it be?

Oh the possibilties of this question is endless! When i was younger i always wanted to live in an Enid Blyton novel. The Secret Seven Books or the Famous Five to start with. Then when i got a bit older i moved onto the Malloy Towers books and St Claires and i really wanted to go to those boarding schools. I know these books were set quite a while ago but i really wanted to go there.

Then i fell in love with Harry Potter. I wanted to go to Hogwarts (which HP fan didnt?) i wanted to learn magic, i wanted to escape to another world.

To be honest, i cant just pick one book most of the books i read i want to live in!

Booking Through Thursday – Changes

A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I got some great responses and will be picking out some of the questions from time to time to ask the rest of you. Like now.

Two people asked a similar question:

Charlie Quillen asks:

Has a book ever inspired you to change anything in your life, fiction or non-fiction alike?

Lindsay asks:

There have been books I loved, books that I fell in love with, and books that changed my life, and they’re not always the same nor mutually exclusive.

I have read many a book that has inspired me to do things. I loved To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This book inspired me by making me realise you shouldnt judge people by their appearance and you should never judge people by what others tell you.

The main message i get from books is how very lucky i am. The two books i have in mind are on a similar theme. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. Now while these books are on ‘different sides’ of the war, they both made me realise how very lucky i am. I do have problems, but nowhere near as much as people living during the second world war.

Booking Through Thursday – Pet Peeves

A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I got some great responses and will be picking out some of the questions from time to time to ask the rest of you. Like now.

Bookish Sarah asks:

What are your literary “pet peeves”?

I actually posted one of these peeves on my blog just the other day! I really really hate it when a new movie comes out and then people find out that a book also exists and assume that book is a copy of the movie.

This happened to me at work just the other day. A guy i work with said he had been to see The Hunger Games and i asked if he had read the book. He looked at me and said ‘why do authors rip off the movies by bringing a book out?’ I was shocked. How could someone not know that it was based on a book? But sadly this is something i come across a lot. It’s very unfortunate that a lot of people don’t realise that a lot of movies and TV shows are based on books and not the other way round.

I also don’t like book snobs. Those people who look down their noses at you when you read Young Adult or Chick lit. I think everyone should read what they like and the world would be very boring if everyone read the same books.

Booking Through Thursday – Eternity

A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I got some great responses and will be picking out some of the questions from time to time to ask the rest of you. Like now.

Bookish Sarah asks:

What book took you the longest to read, and do you feel it was the content or just the length that made it so?

I have to make a little confession, long books scare me! I see a really big book and sometimes it does put me off. I have to say though i am trying to get over this and i have got several ‘big’ books on my TBR for example Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and White Teeth by Zadie Smith.

The longest book page wise that i have read is Windfall by Penny Vincenzi. It is about 800 pages or so long and although it was a big book it did only take me a week or so  to read, which personally is a good thing.

The longest book content wise was Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. I do feel like I’m going to offend a lot of people but this is on my list of books i really dislike! Although its not a very long book, it felt like it while i was reading it!