Who is your favorite female lead character? And why? (And yes, of course, you can name more than one . . . I always have trouble narrowing down these things to one name, why should I force you to?) There is only one: Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bennet. She is feisty, funny, serious, sympathetic, won’t-be-downtrodden, thinks intelligently … Read More
Booking Through Thursday
Booking through Thursday
All other things (like price and storage space) being equal, given a choice in a perfect world, would you rather have paperbacks in your library? Or hardcovers? And why? My father used to throw paperbacks away … and I rescued them. I couldn’t bear the idea of books being thrown away, but he came from … Read More
Booking Through Thursday
Today’s questions are: 1 What fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007? (Older books that you read for the first time in 2007 don’tcount.)2 What non-fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007? (Older books that you read … Read More
Booking Through Thursday, on Saturday …
… This week’s question is suggested by Island Editions: Do you have a favourite book, now out of print, that you would like to see become available again? (I have several…) Mine is The Agony and the Ego (click on the title for secondhand amazon copies …) which is an utterly wonderful book (Penguin PLEASE … Read More
Booking Through Thursday
Here’s today’s: COMFORT FOODOkay . . . picture this (really) worst-case scenario: It’s cold and raining, your boyfriend/girlfriend has just dumped you, you’ve just been fired, the pile of unpaid bills is sky-high, your beloved pet has recently died, and you think you’re coming down with a cold. All you want to do (other than … Read More
Booking through Thursday … on Friday
Just caught up with Booking Through Thursday (thank you Simon at Stuck in a Book)… where a weekly bookish question is posed. Here’s this week’s question: When growing up did your family share your love of books? If so, did one person get you into reading? And, do you have any family-oriented memories with books … Read More