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Name a book or author that you truly wanted to love but left you disappointed. (And, of course, explain why.) Sadly, there are a number, more so specific books than authors. For whatever reason, though, the one that comes immediately to mind is Norman Mailer’s The Castle in the Forest. In naming it my “biggest disappointment” [...] Tim July 1st, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday | Category: A Reading Life | One comment |
 Print This Post |  Email This PostDo you read book reviews? Do you let them change your mind about reading/not reading a particular book? I’ve subscribed to the NYT Book Review for a number of years and, off and on, a variety of other book review (Bookforum) and book-oriented (The Believer) publications. And, of course, I have a number of book [...] Tim June 24th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, reviewing | Category: Book Memes | One comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostWhat books do you have next to your bed right now? How about other places in the house? What are you reading? This item comes late today because the answer isn’t that easy. It’s more a matter of numbers. My bed not onlyhas two small headboard shelves, there’s a small bookcase next to it. [...] Tim May 27th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, reading | Category: Book Memes | 3 comments |
Print This Post | Email This PostWhat’s the most useful book you’ve ever read? And, why? My “most useful” book isn’t one book, it comes from a series of books. You see, law students rely on a couple commercial devices to help survive. They include outlines, such as “Gilley’s” (short for Gilbert’s Law Summaries), and the books in the West Nutshell Series. [...] Tim May 20th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostSo … you’re halfway through a book and you’re hating it. It’s boring. It’s trite. It’s badly written. But … you’ve invested all this time to reading the first half. What do you do? Read the second half? Just to finish out the story? Find out what happens? Or, cut your losses and [...] Tim May 6th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, reading | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostGod* comes to you and tells you that, from this day forward, you may only read ONE type of book–one genre–period, but you get to choose what it is. Classics, Science-Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Cookbooks, History, Business … you can choose, but you only get ONE. What genre do you pick, and why? *Whether you believe in [...] Tim April 29th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, Books | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostWhich do you prefer? Lurid, fruity prose, awash in imagery and sensuous textures and colors? Or straight-forward, clean, simple prose? My journalism degree and background seems to almost demand simple and clean prose. That is called good writing. Now good writing can also be descriptive, but “lurid, fruity prose” would seem the antithesis of [...] Tim March 18th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday | Category: Book Memes | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostIn honor of National Grammar Day … it IS “March Fourth” after all … do you have any grammar books? Punctuation? Writing guidelines? Style books? More importantly, have you read them? How do you feel about grammar in general? Important? Vital? Unnecessary? Fussy? I admit it upfront. The main — if not the only — reason I’m [...] Tim March 4th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, journalism | Category: Book Memes | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostWho’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangelize for, the one you would run popularity campaigns for? The author that, so far as you’re concerned, everyone should be reading–but that nobody seems to have heard of. You know, not JK Rowling, not Jane Austen, not Hemingway–everybody’s heard [...] Tim January 21st, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, Hans Fallada | Category: Book Memes | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostDo you read the inside flaps that describe a book before or while reading it? Since I suggested the question, I suppose I have somewhat of an obligation to answer it. I probably should have been more clear but I’m referring to the flaps on the dust jackets of books. And, as a general rule, I [...] Tim January 14th, 2010 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
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