Awhile back, I received a meme from dear friend, Eleanor of Thatchwick Cottage and what with all the comings and goings back and forth to see dear BeBe, well...I am just now getting to it! Since this is so late in coming I am not going to name any winners...anyone who is a reader and book lover can participate. Here is what you do:
1) Share random weird/eccentric book facts about yourself.
2) List at least 5 things about your reading habits that might be considered eccentric.
3) You may take my Ex Libris book plate home with you.
Okay, here are my eccentricities:
1) I ALWAYS have to take the book jacket off before I begin reading.
2) I will not finish a book if it does not capture me after a chapter or two. I don't want to waste time - I could be reading something more worthy! This is almost like judging a book by its cover, but hey, what can I tell you - I'm eccentric!
3) If I notice that some page corners have been turned down I have to go through the book and straighten all the pages before I start reading.
4) I have many, many bookmarkers that I have acquired over time but do I use these pretty and/or unusual bookmarkers? No. I will use anything that is handy when I am reading...a folded up (clean) tissue, a grocery list, a grocery receipt and then I will use this as a bookmarker until the book is finished!
5) When my girls were growing up and we would be in the mall, they would each take one of my arms and rush me past any bookstore we were passing - they knew that's where I would spend all of my time if I could!
I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do and will want to pass along this fun meme to other book lovers!
5 comments:
Ha ha! I think they use the term OCD for that behavior (corners?) LOL!
Love ya!
Yer Dau
PS. I enjoyed the mall memory! :)
The mall comment made me laugh...I forgot about that....
My five book eccentricities (sp?) are:
1. I seem to have more than one going at a time.
2. I also use anything as a bookmark...mostly scraps of paper. The lovely bookmarkers always end up in a drawer.
3. I have been known to skip ahead to see how a situation resolves if it is too stressful...
and then I go back and read up to that point...
4. I have a terrible habit of staying up until 1 or 2 in the morning to finish reading a book that I just HAVE to know how it ends (only on weekends and summertime!)
5. I think someday my children may also grab both of my arms and drag me past the bookstore...:)
Do I win?
Love these comments, girls! I always got a kick out of how you would drag me past bookstores! Good thing we didn't have a Barnes & Noble then, huh?
Oh my! Jill and I would have died of embarassment with a Barnes and Noble! Or Borders...I have known people that have been asked to leave because they stayed too long and didn't buy anything! Although that would not have been the case for us....LOL!
Your no 1,3,and 4 are exactly the same for me!
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