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Musing Mondays: What I done been reading

This week’s Musing posits several questions so they’re presented separately.

What are you reading right now?

I’m just finishing Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith.

Why are you reading what you’re reading? Pleasure? For review? Something else?

I’m reading it for pleasure because it made the Man Booker Prize longlist, it’s set in Stalinist […]

Booking Through Thursday: Most unusual book

What was the most unusual (for you) book you ever read? Either because the book itself was completely from out in left field somewhere, or was a genre you never read, or was the only book available on a long flight… whatever? What (not counting school textbooks, though literature read for classes counts) was […]

Booking Through Thursday: Autumn reading habits

Autumn is starting (here in the US, anyway), and kids are heading back to school–does the changing season change your reading habits? Less time? More? Are you just in the mood for different kinds of books than you were over the summer?

Autumn probably tends to mark the beginning of the biggest impact on […]

Tuesday Thingers: LT’s quotation field

Have you ever added a quote to the quotation field in [Library Thing’s] common knowledge? What’s a quote you particularly like from a book, one that you know by heart?

Since I didn’t know what “common knowledge” was until seeing this, no. It may, though, come in as a handy resource.

Although I put […]

Musing Mondays: Treatment of books

Here is the third of the book-related memes in which I will occasionally participate:

Do you treat books carefully, or do you just treat them as any other object? Do you have certain things you refuse to do with books (write in them, etc)? If so, what are they?

I am almost obsessive […]