Booking Through Thursday: Biggest book read lately

It’s been a while since I’ve participated in Deb’s excellent Booking Through Thursday meme, so I thought I’d put in the effort to get back on board with it. Today Deb’s asks the question:
What’s the biggest book you’ve read recently? (Feel free to think “big” as size, or as popularity, or in any [...]

Booking Through Thursday: On the subject of libraries

It’s Thursday already so time for another Booking Through Thursday meme and this week, with National Library Week coming up in the US this month, Debs is exploring the subject of libraries, and how often we use them. Here’s the question(s):
How often do you use your public library and how do you use it? [...]

Booking Through Thursday: Best ‘worst’ book

It’s Thursday so time for another Booking Through Thursday meme. and this week Deb is really testing the brain cells by asking the opposite of last week’s question:
“What’s the best ‘worst’ book you’ve ever read — the one you like despite some negative reviews or features?
This is an interesting question and I have to go [...]

Booking Through Thursday: Worst ‘best’ book?

It’s time for another Book Through Thursday meme and because I didn’t answer last week’s ‘which book to movie’ question (simply because I’ll always prefer a story in its book form) I thought I’d better answer this week’s one which is:
“What’s the worst ‘best’ book you’ve ever read — the one everyone says is so [...]

Booking Through Thursday: Best book you’ve never read?

It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to participate in the Booking Through Thursday meme but I’ve made a concerted effort to do so today because this week Deb asks the really interesting question:
What’s the best book that YOU haven’t read yet?
As interesting as it is it’s a difficult question for me to [...]

Booking Through Thursday: Electronic vs Paper

This week’s Booking Through Thursday is a little different in that Deb is asking participants to add their thoughts directly to the meme thread, rather than the usual way of linking directly to a participation post on one’s own blog. Good move because as Deb says it’s a time consuming affair hopping around everyone’s blog [...]

Booking Through Thursday: Favourite Books from 2008

For this week’s Booking Through Thursday meme Deb asks what were your favourite books from 2008? Well I’m going to turn the question slightly, because in reality I didn’t read that many books that were published in 2008, preferring instead to concentrate my reading efforts on a wide-range of titles with a definite onus on [...]

Booking Through Thursday: Giving books as gifts

Today’s Booking Through Thursday meme touches on something very close to my heart – the giving of books as gifts. Deb has split the question into parts as so:
Do you give books as gifts?
To everyone? Or only to select people?
How do you feel about receiving books as gifts?
The first two questions I can answer as [...]

Booking Through Thursday: Time is of the Essence

It’s Thursday (already) so time for another BTT meme and this week Deb focuses on a topic close to every bibliophile’s heart – time! She asks:
1. Do you get to read as much as you WANT to read?
2. If you had (magically) more time to read–what would you read? Something educational? Classic? Comfort Reading? Escapism? [...]

Booking Through Thursday: 5 for Favorites

This week’s Booking Through Thursday meme is centred on the question of favourite authors, and Debs has asked a series of 5 questions on the subject:
1. Do you have a favorite author?
A difficult question really as I have a number of authors whom I’d call ’serious’ favourites, including Knut Hamsun, Ernest Hemingway, Anton Chekhov and [...]

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