Fess up October 27, 2005

This week’s questions suggested by Christine, who didn’t leave a URL so I can’t link to her!

1. What books have you read that you hate to admit reading? (You can either limit this to recent reads or go way back in time. Your choice.)
2. Why?

Book clubs October 20, 2005

I’m referring to the reading type of book club, where members all read the same book, then gather to discuss it.

1. Do you, or have you, ever belonged to a book club?
2. Why, or why not?
3. If you are in a book club, or were once, what did you like about it?
4. What did you dislike about the book club?

How bad is bad? October 13, 2005

Here’s another set of questions from Nicki.

1. What’s the worst book you’ve ever read?
2. What’s the book you hated the most?
3. Is the answer the same to both questions? If not, why not?
4. Why was this book (or these books) so bad?

Inconvenient October 6, 2005

The answers to last week’s questions were fun to read, so I’m going to do the same thing this week, with a little spin on it. I want you to dig out a book that’s in a hard-to-get-to spot, then answer the same questions about it. As an example, I’ll get a book out of our library upstairs. Now, you’d think this would be easy, but this time it isn’t. There’s a bookcase in the corner behind the wingback chair. I have to move the chair to get to the lower shelves. To make it even more inconvenient, I’ll reach down behind the floor lamp that’s there and get something off the bottom shelf.

Go get a book that is in the most inconvenient place in your home.

1. What corner of your house did you dig this book out of?
2. What are the book’s title and author?
3. Turn to page 127. Locate the third paragraph, first sentence. Type that sentence here:
4. Does the sentence make sense out of context?
5. Seeing it sitting here by itself, out of the book, is it funny? Sad? Strange? Does it make you want to explore its source?
6. Are you currently reading this book? Why?