Another Literary Meme

Lifted from Nylusmilk:

1. When/how did you become an avid reader?
When I was still in elementary school. I got teased a lot for reading instead of playing outside during recess, but it comes with the lifelong hobby, eh? I just loved to read, and now that love’s carried into something of an obsession. Something about this object you call a book has forever grabbed me.

2. What is your favorite genre for adult/young adult books?
Scifi or fantasy, with more of an emphasis on scifi. Military history, literary criticism and contemporary fiction are quickly rising as my favorite genres, but scifi will always be my all-time favorite.

3. What was the most recent book purchased/given to you?
Recently given to me were Anna Karenina and The Legend by a book-loving friend of mine from my favorite message board. Also recently, I purchased The Memoirs of Helen of Troy by Amanda Elyot and a book by Roald Dahl whose title I can’t recall right now. (I love library booksales.)

4. Which book would you like to have that you don’t own?
I wouldn’t mind owning the book I’m currently reading: Gold and Gold by Walter Russell Mead.

5. What book did you think you would never read, but found yourself reading it after all?
Anything by Stephen King. I started reading his work when I was on a short story kick and bought Everything’s Eventual (again, from a library booksale), and my enjoyment of his fiction shot off from there.

6. Which do you prefer, libraries or bookstores?
I love both, but right now I prefer libraries. A public service that makes books free to borrow for the reading public should be appreciated to its fullest degree.

7. What’s the longest you’ve never picked up a book (to read for pleasure, excluding all school material - unless that’s really what you enjoy reading)?
I went without reading for several weeks a couple years ago. By the time I emerge from a Reading Zone on occasion, I sometimes need a break. Can’t read two books at the same time, either - that makes me feel burned out, no matter how far away the books are in subject matter.

~ by RhiGirl on February 27, 2008.