Booking Through Thursday: Picking and Choosing

Booking through thursday is a weekly meme hosted by the blog of the same name.

This weeks question:

A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I got some great responses and will be picking out some of the questions from time to time to ask the rest of you. Like now. Two questions about selecting your books.
Pooch asks:

Overall, what factor most influences your choice of your next read?

Sefcug asks:

What is it that makes you want to read a book by an author you have never read before?

Well obviously what books I have influence what I read next! But also what kind of mood I'm in, sometimes I want something light, sometimes I want something to cheer me up, also how much I have looking forward to a certain book.

Usually it will be the sypnosis of a book by an author I've never read that will make me want to read it, also recommendations and reviews.

Booking Through Thursday: Reading

Booking through thursday is a weekly meme hosted by the blog of the same name.

This weeks question:

A while ago, I interviewed my readers for a change, and my final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?” I got some great responses and will be picking out some of the questions from time to time to ask the rest of you. Like now. Two questions about your reading habits that just seem to go together.
GigiAnn asks:

Do you have a favorite season of the year that you read more? (Example: during snow storms, rainy weather, or sunny and warm weather) Sorry, that was the best I could come up with.

Lisa asks:

Where is your favorite place to read? On the beach? Inside/outside?

I don't really have a season I read more in, I go through phases of reading sometimes reading loads, sometimes not so much, that will on depend on what else I'm doing, how good the book/s are that I'm reading etc. As for places, I always read in the bath, read in bed most nights too. I love it when its hot outside and I can read out in the garden too. I guess I pretty much read anywhere, the beach and by the pool included.

Booking through Thursday: Periodically

Booking through thursday is a weekly meme hosted by the blog of the same name.

This weeks question:

So other than books … what periodicals do you read? Magazines? Newspapers? Newsletters? Journals?
Do you subscribe? Or do you buy them on the newsstand when they look interesting?

I only subscribe to one magazine, The Art of Knitting. I will occasionally buy a magazine if it has a story that looks interesting, but most of my time is spent reading books (and most of my money!)

Booking Through Thursday: First Teacher

Booking through thursday is a weekly meme hosted by the blog of the same name.

This weeks question:

Who taught you to read?

I can't actually remember learning to read, I guess my parents and school taught me to read. I don't really remember ever being read to either, but I most probably was, but as far back as I can remember I much prefer reading to myself so I can go at my own pace.

Booking through thursday: Quotable

Booking through thursday is a weekly meme hosted by the blog of the same name.

This weeks question:

Do you have a favorite quote from a book?

I have so many, I have to go back through my kindle to put a few here:

From The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis, "Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out."

From Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."

From Remedy by Heidi C Vlach, "Dying was hard. Not for the person doing it - people died all the time - but for their family and friends, for everyone who had to watch them go."

From Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares, "There as undoubtedly something beautiful in longing and wishing. Their love story stayed perfect because they couldn't have it."

From The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan, "And still, for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck woth a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like me could find someone like you - it renders me wordless." 

another one: "There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be." 

I could go on and on from this book, basically the whole book is one long quote I love!

From As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott, "Love - real love - can't be defined. It just is. It just lives in your heart, like he lives in mine."

And the last one from The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau, "It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge."

I love how I can save them all in my kindle and read them again anytime I want without the book.

Booking Through Thursday: Do-Over

Question this week from BTT:

Have you ever bought a book, started reading it and then realised you have already read it? If so, how far did you get? (Can you tell this happened to me for the first time ever this week!?!)

I have done this quite a few times in the past, sometimes by the end I still haven't figured out if I have actually read it or a book like it! It has happened mostly when I used to read Marian Keyes books, especially when the characters were related.

I will continue to read the book if I have forgotten most of it, or if it was a really good book.

However this rarely happens to me now, with the help of Librarything and Goodreads I can keep a list of books I have already read, and since I mostly read on my Kindle Amazon will tell me if I have already downloaded a book (although this doesn't help with old paperbacks I have read.)