Double-Stacked Bookshelves

Booking Through Thursday:  Summertime Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Deb @ Booking Through Thursday . Every week she posts a book related prompt/question, you answer the prompt, and then link back to the original. Here's this week's: Question/Prompt:  Summertime Do your reading habits change in the summer? I wouldn't say that my reading habits change all that much in the summer.  I do think that I spend a lot of time reading year-round, but it's always nice to sit outside in the warm weather with a book.  I think that my big reading spurts are during late Fall, Winter, and early Spring because of the simple fact that we tend to get a fair amount of rain in the Pacific Northwest, so we spend a lot of time indoors.  Summertime is when we all venture outside for outdoor activities, so time spent reading might take a bit of a hit when the weather is nice.  However, I am perfectly content to sit on a blanket in the park/at the oce...

Booking Through Thursday:  Anticipation Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Deb @ Booking Through Thursday . Every week she posts a book related prompt/question, you answer the prompt, and then link back to the original. Here's this week's: Question/Prompt:  Anticipation Do you still get excited about new books as you did when you were little?  In general?  New books in particular, like from a new author?  Or do you look at it all new, unread books with the same level of anticipation? I am a book junkie.  Books do not have to be brand spankin' new for me to get excited about them.  Honestly, I get excited when I pick up a 50 cent book from a garage sale or thrift store.  I just like the fact that it's new to me and I get the privilege of reading it soon.  One of my favorite things to do is peruse used bookstores; they offer the aspect of hunting for buried treasures.  Perhaps I'm a little sp...

Booking Through Thursday:  Format Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Deb @ Booking Through Thursday . Every week she posts a book related prompt/question, you answer the prompt, and then link back to the original. Here's this week's: Question/Prompt:  Format All other things being equal, what is your favorite format for reading?  Hardcover?  Paperback?  New Book?  Old Book?  Leather-bound first edition?  E-book? For reading, I am old school.  I love a paperback book above all other mediums.  As an avid spine breaker, there isn't nearly the same satisfaction in reading other formats.  I know, shame on me for breaking the spines and ruining the structure/integrity of a book, but I want my books to look like they've been read.  No pristine books on my bookshelves!  While there are some instances where I like hardcovers, mainly in series form because t...

Booking Through Thursday:  R-Rated Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Deb @ Booking Through Thursday .  Every week she posts a book related prompt/question, you answer the prompt, and then link back to the original.  Here's this week's: Question/Prompt:  R-Rated Content How do you feel about explicit detail in your reading?  Whether language, sex, violence, situations, and so on...does it bother you?  Faze you at all?  Or do you just read everything without it bothering you? Honestly, I'm not very disturbed by r-rated content in my reading as long as it makes sense in the frame of the story.  I read just about anything under the sun, from YA to Romance and Adventure to Literary Fiction.  Sometimes, r-rated content is necessary to the storyline and other times it's simply gratuitous.  Even when it is excessive, I am not bothered by it.  I guess you could say I have a pretty open mind.  Naturally there ...

Booking Through Thursday:  Extremes Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Deb @ Booking Through Thursday .  Every week she posts a book related prompt/question, you answer the prompt, and then link back to the original.  Here's this week's: Question/Prompt:  Extremes What's the furthest you've ever gone to get something to read?  (Think extremes as well as miles--wrangling a ride from a stranger to a distant bookstore just to get the newest book from a favorite author?)  If your absolute favorite author (living or dead) was coming out with a brand new book tomorrow, how far would you go, what would you do to get a copy? The farthest distance extreme I've gone to get a book is probably about 65ish miles.  The world's largest new and used bookstore, Powell's City of Books , is located about an hour north of me in Portland, Oregon  and it's like my Mecca.  I don't need any specific reason to visit Powell's, but ...

In an effort to post more consistently, I've decided to join in on a few memes hosted by various book bloggers in the blogosphere.  This will force me to post something every day, aside from Saturdays and Sundays, and I'm thinking that's a good thing.  I should also get back into the habit of reviewing the books I've read (I have a whole smattering of drafts just waiting to be finished), and posting those during the week as well.  Here's the breakdown of posting memes and their respective hosts: Mondays Musing Mondays hosted by MizB @ Should Be Reading This is a weekly meme where MizB will post a question on a book/reading- related topic and you answer with your personal thoughts. Tuesdays Teaser Tuesdays hosted by MizB @ Should Be Reading I used to participate in this meme regularly, but haven't for awhile.  I'm going to start posting on it again.  This meme is all about enticement.  You grab whatever book you're currently reading or wil...