1. Do you remember how you developed a love for reading? The earliest book I remember reading on my own was called “A Child’s Bible Reader.” Each week an aunt (I think her name was Charlotte) read stories to her niece and nephew. I read that book over and over . . . and I still have it! I think it instilled in me not only a love for reading, but a love for God’s Word.
4. Do you have a favorite novel? Without a doubt–THE NUN’S STORY, by Katherine Hulme. I think this book was also in that box of books, and I’ve read it dozens of times. Wonderful, and based on a true story!
5. Where do you usually read? In my library chair, or on a plane. These days I really have to work to find time to sit and read for pleasure.
6. When do you usually read? My favorite time is on an airplane. No distractions, and nothing to make me feel guilty!
8. Do you read non-fiction in a different way or place than you read fiction? See above.
9. Do you buy most of the books you read, or borrow them, or check them out of the library? I buy them. Because if nobody buys books, authors starve. Sad but true.
10. Do you keep most of the books you buy? If not, what do you do with them? I keep them for a while, then I either give them away, exchange them, or shelve them. But I ran out of shelves a long time ago. Around here, we shelve and then we stack!
11. If you have children, what are some of the favorite books you have shared with them? Were they some of the same ones you read as a child? My son has never been a reader, and my daughter loved to read until the school’s accelerated reading program killed the joy of reading for her. I’m still upset about that.
12. What are you reading now? I just finished BECKY for my neighborhood book club. And I have a half dozen nonfiction legal books on my desk, fodder for the WIP.
13. Do you keep a TBR (To Be Read) list? List? No. Stacks. Everywhere.
15. What books would you like to reread? The Nun’s Story . . . MODOC, and THE CALL OF THE WILD.
I’m afraid I found myself in a lot of your answers today … particularly when it came to buying the books I read and the stacks all over the place. Now that I am preparing to move, I have once again disposed of books by donating them to our public library. They are pleased to have them (magazines and paper backs, too) and if they can’t use them, they have a book sale. Two ways that are of equal benefit to the library. BTW, there have never been any Angela E Hunt books leaving my house! =) Clyde
Oh, one of my favorite places it read is on airplanes too. No guilt. No dishes or laundry to do, no kids or husbands or dogs to distract me. LOL. Actually I only have one husband and one dog. Sorry, I just got carried away for a moment . . .
A prisoner of hope,
Megan
I can so relate to the one about reading “Jane Eyre,” etc, at a very young age. I was also about 8 when I first read “Jane Eyre” and “Pride and Prejudice”–I’m sure there was a lot I didn’t understand until I re-read (and re-read, and re-read) the books later. I went to a British school during when I was 8 and 9, though, and they actually expected children to read at a higher level.
I have never read “The Nun’s Story,” so I’ll have to check it out. I’m reading “Persuasion” right now–have never read it before and am having a hard time with it.
Hey Angie, I’m working on compiling a cookbook for Beth Moore’s Siesta Fiesta in San Antonio the end of August, and I wondered if you (or any of your blog readers) would like to submit a couple of recipes for it to my email. I think it would be so fun!
I had fun creating this meme a few weeks ago, and I have been amazed at how fast it has flown around the Internet! I am glad it found its way here!
That’s sad about the accelerated reading program destroying your daughter’s love of reading. Hopefully one day it will come back to her. I have all boys and none of them are readers, and that makes me so sad! Well, my oldest doesn’t read books but he is constantly reading techie or newsy things online, so I guess he justs likes different genres.
I don’t know what people do on planes or in waiting rooms without reading — I’d go crazy!!
I totally heart you on the school thing. My son has been an avid reader since he was 4 (and an avid listener virtually all his life) and the constant bombardment of reading and analyzing has taken its toll. And don’t EVEN get me started about summer reading projects for school that the accelerated & AP classes require. Do they not get the concept of a BREAK?!
Although I definitely HEART you, I meant to say HEAR you in that first sentence! LOL