Since I’m already furiously reading trying to fulfill several goals for myself (read 50 books this year, read all the books I own but haven’t read, read 5 Pulitzer Prize winners, and read 5 books of David’s choosing), I decided to join this lovely spring reading challenge. I’m posting my entry today because the deadline for joining is tonight! Hosted by Katrina at Callapidder Days, the idea is simple: you decide what books you will read this spring, and then you read them. Read more about the challenge here. Here are the books I will read this spring: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Emma by Jane Austen The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki…
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For today’s literary installment, I thought it would be fun to take some online quizzes and share my results. I’m posting links, so please take them too and let me know what you get! *** One: What’s Your Reading Personality? Take the quiz here. My results: All-Rounder! Your responses showed you fitting equally into all four reading personalities: Involved Reader: You don’t just love to read books, you love to read about books. For you, half the fun of reading is the thrill of the chase – discovering new books and authors, and discussing your finds with others. Exacting Reader: You love books but you rarely have as much time to read as you’d like – so you’re very particular…
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Let’s talk about something that makes me happy, shall we? Get me into a conversation about books, and I can almost guarantee that I will forget whatever woes I had been dwelling on, at least for awhile. Here are some questions that I found going around the interwebs a long time ago, and have been meaning to answer: The book that’s been on your shelf the longest… Most of my childhood books are still at my parents’ house (I’ll have to get those back at some point), but I do have one: Heidi by Johanna Spyri. It was given to me in 1991, when I was 9 years old. A book that reminds you of a specific person, place, or…
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