The Literary Detective

10 janvier 2008

Booking Through Thursday : May I Introduce?

1. How did you come across your favorite author(s)? Recommended by a friend? Stumbled across at a bookstore? A book given to you as a gift? 2. Was it love at first sight? Or did the love affair evolve over a long acquainta Well, the problem is that I...

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27 décembre 2007

Booking Through Thursday : Highlights

It’s an old question, but a good one . . . What were your favorite books this year? List as many as you like … fiction, non-fiction, mystery, romance, science-fiction, business, travel, cookbooks … whatever the category. But, really, we’re all dying to...

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20 décembre 2007

Booking Through Thursday : And, The Nominees Are...

What fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007? (Older books that you read for the first time in 2007 don’t count.) What non-fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007?...

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18 décembre 2007

Booking Through Thursday : Catalog

Do you use any of the online book-cataloguing sites, like Library Thing or Shelfari? Why or why not? (Or . . . do you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking to?? (grin)) If not an online catalog, do you use any other method to catalog your book collection?...

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18 décembre 2007

Booking Through Thursday : OOP

This week’s question is suggested by Island Editions: Do you have a favourite book, now out of print, that you would like to see become available again? (I have several…) Yes, I'm a huge fan of Winnie-The-Pooh, and I can't find it in French version, with...

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18 décembre 2007

Booking Through Thursday : Rolling

Do you get on a roll when you read, so that one book leads to the next, which leads to the next, and so on and so on? I don’t so much mean something like reading a series from beginning to end, but, say, a string of books that all take place in Paris....

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18 décembre 2007

Booking Through Thursday : Preservatives

I’m still relatively new to this meme so I’m not sure if this has been asked yet, but I’m curious how many of us write notes in our books. Are you a Footprint Leaver or a Preservationist? Definitely a Preservationist. I can stand writing in a book, it...

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1 novembre 2007

Booking Through Thursday : oh, Horror!

What with yesterday being Halloween, and all... do you read horror? Stories of things that go bump in the night and keep you from sleeping? I thought about asking you about whether you were participating in NaNoWriMo, but I asked that last year. Although...if...

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