Booking Through Thursday - Cover

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme.  This week's question is:

CAN you judge a book by its cover?

In some ways, I think you can. There are some things you can learn about the book from the cover (if people have done their job well). The cover can probably give you some idea of what the book's about, and it may show you that you probably wouldn't like the book. For example, if you don't like romance, you could probably tell it's a romance book from it's cover. However, I don't think you can completely judge a book by it's cover. To do that you have to actually read the book.

Booking Through Thursday - Visual

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme where you answer a question about books each week.  This week's question is:

So … the books that you own (however many there may be) … do you display them proudly right there in plain sight for all the world to see? (At least the world that comes into your living room.)


Or do you keep them tucked away in your office or bedroom or library or closet or someplace less “public?”

Some of my books are displayed in my room and some are in my closet.  That's not really by choice though.  I have too many books to fit them all in my room.  If I had room, they would all be proudly displayed around my room or even the rest of the house.

Booking Through Thursday - Cereal

First of all, I want to apologize for their not being a post for almost a week now.  I've been in Georgia for spring break, and my access to the Internet was very limited.  I hoped to get up a blog post or two somehow, but it didn't happen.  Anyway, on with Booking Through Thursday...

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme that asks a question about books.

If you’re like me, you grew up reading everything under the sun, like the cereal boxes while you ate your breakfast, the newspapers held by strangers on the subway, the tabloid headlines at the grocery store.



What’s the oddest thing you’ve ever read? (You know, something NOT a book, magazine, short story, poem or article.)

I did (and still do) read all of those things.  I actually attempted to read a dictionary once, but by the time I got to the B's, I gave up.  There were other, much more interesting, things I could spend my time reading.  I've tried reading some instruction manuals and things, and I'm always the one actually reading the instructions to board games while everyone else just tries to figure it out on their own.  I can't really think of anything else strange that I've read before, but if I saw something with words on it, chances are I read at least some of it.

Booking Through Thursday - Serial

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme. This week's question is:

Series? Or Stand-alone books?

While I love stand-alone books as well, there's something special about series to me. I love that you have multiple books to get to know the characters, and the storyline is usually more intricate in a series because the author has to spread it out during multiple books.

Booking Through Thursday - Headlines

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme that asks book related questions.  This week's question is:

The news has been horrifying and addictive this week, with catastrophe piled on catastrophe, to a degree that–if I had read this in a book or seen it in a movie–I’d be protesting that it was just too unlikely, too farfetched.


But, topics for novels get ripped from the headlines all the time. Or real-life events remind you of fiction (whether “believable” or not) that you’ve read but never expected to see. Or real life comes up with an event so unbelievable that it stretches you sense of reality.

Hmm … I can’t quite come up with an outright question to ask, but thinking about the theory of fiction and how it can affect and be affected by real world events can act as a buffer between the horrific events on the news and having to actually face that horror. So … what happens when the line between fiction and reality becomes all-too slim? Discuss!

I'm not really sure what to say to this.  I'm not even sure if I completely understand what we're supposed to discuss.

First of all, I haven't mentioned anything about Japan anywhere online except Twitter.  I never brought it up here or on my Youtube channel.  There's one main reason for this.  I have some family members in Japan, and I was terrified that something had happened or was going to happen to them that day.  Even once I knew they were safe, the whole thing had shaken me up so badly that I just didn't want to discuss it online.

As for the actual question, I'm not sure what to say.  I think there are some fictional books that can be frightening if they remind us too closely of some tragedy that really happened.  I also think these can be some of the most amazing books.  Fictional books that are based on a real tragedy that happened in the past are very emotional to read (especially if you lived through the tragedy) because you know that there may have been people out there who suffered through things just like what happened in the book.

I don't really know what else to say, and I'm not sure if that even answers the question at all.  I'm just going to leave it at that.

Booking Through Thrusday - Multi-Tasking

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme.  This week's question is:

Do you multi-task when you read? Do other things like stirring things on the stove, brushing your teeth, watching television, knitting, walking, et cetera?



Or is it just me, and you sit and do nothing but focus on what you’re reading?


(Or, if you do both, why, when, and which do you prefer?)

Usually, I'll just sit and read.  Occasionaly, I'll need to do something, and I'm too into a book to put it down.  Then, I'll attempt to multi-task, but it usually doesn't work to well.  Most of the time I just try to focus on what I'm reading.  That's the only way that I'm really able to remember what's going on.

Booking Through Thursday - Cheating

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme where you answer a question about books and reading.  This week's question is:

Do you cheat and peek at the ends of books? (Come on, be honest.)

My answer is:  sometimes.  It really depends.  If it's a book I absolutely love (such as Harry Potter or the Hunger Games), I'm really tempted too, but I'm usually able to resist.  If it's a romance book or something kind of predictable, I usually do because I usually have an at least faint idea of what's going to happen.  (By the way, I'm not saying these books are bad, there are just certain types of books that usually end a certain way.)  Most of the time though, I'm able to keep myself from looking even if I really want to, but sometimes I fail at restraining myself and ruin the ending.

Booking Through Thursday: Something Old, Something New

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme that asks a question about books and reading.  This week's question is:

All other things being equal–do you prefer used books? Or new books? (The physical speciman, that is, not the title.) Does your preference differentiate between a standard kind of used book, and a pristine, leather-bound copy?

I'd say I usually prefer new books.  I feel a little bad about saying that though because I hate thinking about all of the trees that get cut down to make the books I own, which reading The Story of Stuff didn't make better.  There's just something about new books that I like though.  Unless it's a book that's special to me in some way such as my Harry Potter books that I love even though they've gotten a little torn up over the years.  Over all though, I prefer new books.

Haley