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Tuesday Thingers: Multiple copies

Do you own multiple copies of any books? Which ones? Why?

I have several and for a variety of reasons. In alphabetical order, they include:

Ball Four — Jim Bouton’s diary-style look inside major league baseball was one of my favorite sports books in my teens, as evidenced by how beat up my papereback […]

Musing Mondays: The economy and book buying

How has the economy impacted your book buying? Do you think it’ll change the reading and book-buying habits of the country? Will it increase your library visits? Will it make you wait for the paperback edition instead of buying the hardcover?

Although the current state of U.S. reading habits are embarrassing, I think it […]

Booking Through Thursday: Coupling

Name a favorite literary couple and tell me why they are a favorite. If you cannot choose just one, that is okay too. Name as many as you like–sometimes narrowing down a list can be extremely difficult and painful. Or maybe that’s just me.

Since it is one of my Desert Island Books, I […]

Tuesday Thingers: Series

Do you collect any series? Do you read series books? Fantasy? Mystery? Science fiction? Religious? Other genre? Do you use the series feature in [Library Thing] to help you find new books or figure out what you might be missing from a series?

I don’t “collect” book series per se and those that I […]

Musing Mondays: Can novels survive without women readers?

I recently read an article (here), that I found through BiblioAddict’s blog, that talked of “why women read more than men”. In it, author Ian McEwan is quoted saying:

“When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.”

Do you believe this to be true? Why, or why not?

My personal life leaves no […]