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Currently ReadingRecently Read | Now that we’ve come to the middle of the year, what do you think of your 2009 reading so far? Read anything interesting that you’d like to share? Any outstanding favourites? My reading so far this year indicates my translated literature fixation continues. Not surprisingly, then, it accounts for one of my favorites this [...]            Tim June 29th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Musing Mondays | Category: Book Memes | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |  Print This Post |  Email This PostDo you feel compelled to read prize-winning (Giller/Booker/Pulitzer etc) books? Why, or why not? Is there, perhaps, one particular award that you favour? I don’t know that compelled is the right term, although I have become somewhat more attentive to them in the past couple years. I still make sure I have a copy [...] Tim June 15th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Books, Musing Mondays | Category: Book Memes | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostHow many books (roughly) are in your tbr pile? Is this in increasing number or does it stay stable? Do you ever experience tbr anxiety in the face of this pile?
Sadly, my TBR pile has grown to the point it is now a now a three-shelf bookcase next to my side [...] Tim May 4th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Books, Musing Mondays | Category: Book Memes | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostComing towards the end of April, we’re a third of the way through the way through the year. What’s the favourite book you’ve read so far in 2009? What about your least favourite? I haven’t done a lot of book memes lately because they either were on things I’d previously written about or just [...] Tim April 20th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Musing Mondays | Category: Book Memes | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostHow do you choose what to buy from your local bookstore? Do you have a list, or just browse? What is the selection in your book store like? Do you find what you’re looking for? Do you feel pressured to buy the kind of books the store makes prominent? I do both, although I [...] Tim February 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Musing Mondays | Category: A Reading Life, Book Memes | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostHow does your being sick (or injured) affect your reading? Do you read more? Less? Do you pick out a different book than you had already planned? Do you have a “comfort book” that makes you feel better? Most of the time if I’m sick I end up reading less, either because I don’t [...] Tim January 19th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Musing Mondays | Category: Book Memes | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostHow did you react to assigned reading when you were in school/university/college/etc? How do you think on these books now? What book were you ‘forced’ to read when you where in school that you’ve since reread and loved? I still blame/credit high school English for the fact I can’t tolerate Shakespeare. Of course, at [...] Tim January 12th, 2009 | Tags: Book Memes, Musing Mondays | Category: A Reading Life | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostHow often do you recommend books to others, and who do you recommend them to? Do you only recommend books to your “reading friends” or to anyone you think might find the book interesting? What does it take for a book to make it to your ‘recommendation’ list? Other than what people may gather [...] Tim December 29th, 2008 | Tags: Book Memes, Musing Mondays | Category: Book Memes | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostI always like to have a book with me at all times – call it a nerdy grown-up security blanket – and rarely do I leave the house without slipping one into my bag (even if I KNOW I’m not going to have a chance to read it). Do you take a book with [...] Tim December 15th, 2008 | Tags: Book Memes, Musing Mondays | Category: Book Memes | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostHow long do you wait after finishing a book before you pick/start another one? How many books do you have planned ahead or do you pick up random books from your tbr pile (if you have one)? Do you review right away or keep reading and come back to it later? It really depends [...] Tim December 8th, 2008 | Tags: Book Memes, Musing Mondays | Category: Book Memes | 3 comments - (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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