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Currently ReadingRecently Read | If you could ask your favorite author (alive or dead) one question … who would you ask, and what would the question be? Sorry, but I can’t resist making this like asking the genie from the bottle for more wishes with your one wish. So, I’d say to Kurt Vonnegut, “Why don’t we chat [...]            Tim October 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) |  Print This Post |  Email This PostWhen’s the last time you weeded out your library? Do you regularly keep it pared down to your reading essentials? Or does it blossom into something out of control the minute you turn your back, like a garden after a Spring rain? Or do you simply not get rid of books? At all? (This [...] Tim October 15th, 2009 | Tags: Booking Through Thursday, Books | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostWhat’s the most serious book you’ve read recently? Again, I’m too picky with words as my response depends on the definition of “serious.” I consider the just-reviewed The Challenge a serious book because it deals with serious issues. If the term is meant in a more cerebral context, then it would probably be [...] Tim August 6th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday | Category: A Reading Life | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostWhich do you prefer? (Quick answers–we’ll do more detail at some later date) Reading something frivolous? Or something serious? Frivolously serious. Paperbacks? Or hardcovers? Home: Hardcovers. Away: Paperbacks Fiction? Or Nonfiction? Used to be nonfiction but now has moved toward fiction. Poetry? Or Prose? Prose always Biographies? Or Autobiographies? Biographies History? Or Historical [...] Tim July 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday | Category: Book Memes | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostA double dose of BTT this week. I was in Massachusetts last week so didn’t have at hand the info to respond to that BTT, listed first. And since today’s is a follow-up, I’m posting both today. Give me the list or take a picture of all the books you have stacked on your [...] Tim July 16th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, Books | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostDo you read celebrity memoirs? Which ones have you read or do you want to read? Which nonexistent celebrity memoirs would you like to see? Generally, no, although I make exceptions for musicians, such as Dylan, Clapton, Zappa or others whose music I’ve enjoyed. I do have a copy of Sidney Poitier’s autobiography that [...] Tim July 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostThis can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Quick AND easy, especially since I’m copying my Desert Island Books and a couple books that just fell short [...] Tim June 4th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, Books | Category: Book Memes | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostBook Gluttony! Are your eyes bigger than your book belly? Do you have a habit of buying up books far quicker than you could possibly read them? Have you had to curb your book buying habits until you can catch up with yourself? Or are you a controlled buyer, only purchasing books when you [...] Tim May 14th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday, Books | Category: Book Memes | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostMy husband is not an avid reader, and he used to get very frustrated in college when teachers would insist discussing symbolism in a literary work when there didn’t seem to him to be any. He felt that writers often just wrote the story for the story’s sake and other people read symbolism into [...] Tim April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday | Category: Book Memes | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostHow do you arrange your books on your shelves? Is it by author, by genre, or you just put it where it falls on? Okay, I’m thinking answering this may indicate a degree of anal retentiveness or, perhaps, even OCD. The first case of my main bookshelves contains autographed or collectible works, the [...] Tim February 19th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Booking Through Thursday | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This Post |         The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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