Booking Through Thursday 3-19-2009

Today's question is: “What’s the worst ‘best’ book you’ve ever read — the one everyone says is so great, but you can’t figure out why?”

This book only encompasses the amount of time since I have been blogging. Before that time I didn't really pay much attention to what everyone else said about books-If I wanted to read it, I did or vice versa. So I am going to have to say - The House on Mango Street by Hannah Cisneros. I know - it won the American Book Awards and I had some different bloggers ask me why I didn't like it. . . I think it is because it was a series of vignettes/short stories - and I really don't like this format. I read it for an online challenge - and am glad I went outside by comfort zone - but didn't increase my lack of love for short stories. You can go here to see my review.

Booking Through Thursday 2-26-2009

• Hardcover? Or paperback?
• Illustrations? Or just text?
• First editions? Or don't you care?
• Signed by the author? Or not?
  

I don't really care if a book is hardcover or paperback - if it is an author that I like and the story is good, that is all that matters. I do have a bunch of authors that I "collect" their books - these are mainly authors that I started reading when I was a teen (Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Saul) and I have added some to the mix now (Anne Rice, Karen Rose, Ted Dekker, Robert Liparulo, Anne Perry). I think that you can tell what kind of books that I like to read!

I don't really care if a book is a first edition or not - it doesn't change the story within and that is really what is all about. Now as for being signed by the author? I think this is very cool - especially when you win the books from a giveaway and the author emails you personally to find out to whom he should autograph them. (Thanks Mr. Liparulo!!)


This is a weekly meme hosted by Deb here.

Booking Through Thursday

This is a weekly meme hosted by Deb here.

1. Do you get to read as much as you WANT to read?

(I’m guessing #1 is an easy question for everyone?)

2. If you had (magically) more time to read–what would you read?

I absolutely do not get as much time to read as I would like - lately I spend too much time online. I also love to do needlepoint, cross stitch, knit, crochet, etc - and there is not enough time for that either. Combine that with a 16 year old girl, 14 year old girl and 4 year old boy.. and activities never end! (Wouldn't trade them in for anything though!) Seems like I read the most in the bathroom (ok moms - raise your hand if you spend more time than necessary in the bathroom just so you can read!)

If I had more time to read - I would spend it reading with my teenagers. When they were young I worked full time and didn't get the opportunity to read with them as I do my youngest. I would like to introduce them to all the girl hood classics like Black Beauty and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and even The Little House on the Prairie series. They are both devouring the Twilight series now - which is saying something as neither one of them are serious readers.