Posts Tagged ‘ Booking Through Thursday ’

Booking Through Thursday: Giving books as gifts

Dec 18th, 2008 | By Rob | Category: Booking Through Thursday, Community activity

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

Dec 11th, 2008 | By Rob | Category: Booking Through Thursday

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

Dec 4th, 2008 | By Rob | Category: Booking Through Thursday

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 [...]



Booking Through Thursday: Obligated to post a good review?

Nov 20th, 2008 | By Rob | Category: Booking Through Thursday

It’s time for another Booking Through Thursday meme and this week Deb’s ask a very interesting question with regards to book reviews and any obligation to post a good review:
Do you think reviewers are obligated to put up a good review of a book, even if they don’t like it? Have we come to a [...]



Booking Through Thursday: Why Buy?

Nov 13th, 2008 | By Rob | Category: Booking Through Thursday, Community activity

I missed out on taking part in last week’s Booking Through Thursday meme but returning to take part in this week’s one, I find that Deb asks the interesting question:
If you usually buy your books, tell me why. Why buy instead of borrow? Why shell out your hard-earned dollars for something you could get for [...]