I totally paused!

Do other people influence what you choose to read? When a family member recommends something, or a friend says they hated a book you were planning to read … does it affect your reading choices? This is somewhat subjective for me…if someone says they really liked a book, I will either add it to my [… Read More]

Do you lend your books? Are any out on loan right now? Do you have any that have been loaned to you? Do you put a time limit on these? Do you think people should make an effort to read the loaned book quickly? Oh what a difficult question!  I do loan out books, but [… Read More]

Do you like to give books as gifts? I’m usually torn. I love giving and sharing books, but it can be hard. The giftee can be difficult to please, or you don’t know what they’ve read (or what they thought of books they have read). Even people who love to read and love to get [… Read More]

Any reading resolutions for the new year? Reading more? (Reading less?) Reading better books? Bigger books? More series? More relaxing books? And hey, feel free to talk about any other resolutions you might have, too … or why you choose NOT to have any. A couple of years ago, I decided I wasn’t going to participate [… Read More]

A deceptively easy question for this week (easy to ask but possibly hard to answer): What are/were your favorite book(s) of the year? (Bonus points if you know how many books you read.) The easy part first…as of today, I’ve finished 60 books this year.  This does include at least one short story, but those [… Read More]

Any books you’re particularly hoping to be gifted this year? Any that you’re giving as presents this holiday season? Thinking back over all the books I was really dying to get this year, I think I preordered all of them to make sure I’d have them when I wanted to read them.  The big ones [… Read More]

So … you’ve just finished reading a book. For the sake of the discussion, we’ll say it was everything a book should be—engaging, entertaining, interesting, thought-provoking. The kind you want to gush over. The question is—do you immediately move on to your next book? Or do you take time to contemplate this writerly masterpiece and [… Read More]

Do you find that your mood affects the things you read? Like, if you’re in a bad mood, do you tend to indulge in reading that will support it or do you try to read things that will cheer you up? Do you pick different types of books on dreary, rainy days than you do [… Read More]

Do your reading habits change when you’re on vacation? Do you read more? Do you indulge in lighter, fluffier books than you usually read? Do you save up special books so you’ll be able to spend real vacation time with them? Or do you just read the same old stuff, vacation or not? My reading [… Read More]

  If you could get a sequel for any book, what would it be? That’s a really hard question to answer.  I’m definitely a “what happens next?!” kind of person, I’ve said it numerous times.  But a lot of the books I’d like to see a sequel to already have one, or have one on [… Read More]