'How I Read' Tag
To all who are reading this,
It's already the second Sunday in March, and when I look back to when I last blogged... Well, I hang my head in shame. I've been very under the weather, with various health complications, but I'm back and I have several little reviews planned!
I spotted this Tag on The Lilac Scrapbook's blog and though it was great! I had previously done her Book Lover's Survey tag as well, so it seemed fitting to complete this one.
Feel free to do the tag yourself and let me know what your answers are!
How do you find out about new books to read?
Quite often, I find books on social media. I'm quite lucky to know several indie authors on Facebook, so I always know when they are expecting to release a new book. I also follow hundreds of authors on Twitter, which is handy. I've also been following several bloggers on Instragram, and they always have new reads!
Although, nothing quite beats the allure of real shelves in supermarkets, bookshops or libraries for those new reads.
How did you get into reading?
Both of my parents read to me at bedtime. I was very young when books were introduced, and I will always remember being read The Hobbit. When I was very young, I used to pick up books, papers, or magazines and pretend to be reading them. As I got older, I used to take my favourite reading books home from school so my parents could help teach me learn, as well as having the usual bedtime story.
How has your taste in books changed as you've gotten older?
Since I was a child, I've always read whatever I've fancied. As I hit my teen years though, I grew to love paranormal and fantasy novels, even those tinged with sex. Those books are still a staple part of my reading diet!
I've also definitely come to appreciate crime books as I've gotten older. Even though, I can't solve them. I've found that some of the authors in the genre are from foreign lands, such as Sweden or Norway. I'm currently reading The Blind Goddess by Anne Holt - originally written in Norwegian.
How often do you buy books?
I'm one of those people who has a "one click addiction" to Amazon - all those eBooks that you can get at one touch of a button. I can do that every few days, and they aren't necessarily very expensive. Some books you can get for as little as 77p, whereas others may be at the £4 mark.
Paperback books, I get maybe every couple of weeks, if something grabs my fancy. I was quite lucky finding loads of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books by Laurell K. Hamilton in the charity shop for £1.50 the other week!
How do you react when you don't like the end of a book?
If it's the first book in a series, I feel sort of lost. There's all this amazing stuff that happens, there's all this build up, there's all this interesting characters that are sure to develop... And then the book falls very flat. If it's a home book, it gets sent to a charity shop. If it's library, it's a straight return.
How often have you taken a sneaky look at the back page of a book to see if it's a happy ending?
I always read the last line - I don't even know why! I think it's stemmed from reading the Harry Potter series when I was younger - namely The Order of the Phoenix, when there was a huge character death. My friend and I were very Sirius about this (I can't believe I wrote that). We had to know, who it was, but the last line never gave it away.
And I've been doing it ever since...
How many people are you going to tag, and who are they?
There's nobody I'm going to particularly tag, because those people never respond!
Yours, with eternal ink,
Zoe
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Currently reading: The Blind Goddess by Anne Holt
It's already the second Sunday in March, and when I look back to when I last blogged... Well, I hang my head in shame. I've been very under the weather, with various health complications, but I'm back and I have several little reviews planned!
I spotted this Tag on The Lilac Scrapbook's blog and though it was great! I had previously done her Book Lover's Survey tag as well, so it seemed fitting to complete this one.
Feel free to do the tag yourself and let me know what your answers are!
How do you find out about new books to read?
Quite often, I find books on social media. I'm quite lucky to know several indie authors on Facebook, so I always know when they are expecting to release a new book. I also follow hundreds of authors on Twitter, which is handy. I've also been following several bloggers on Instragram, and they always have new reads!
Although, nothing quite beats the allure of real shelves in supermarkets, bookshops or libraries for those new reads.
How did you get into reading?
Both of my parents read to me at bedtime. I was very young when books were introduced, and I will always remember being read The Hobbit. When I was very young, I used to pick up books, papers, or magazines and pretend to be reading them. As I got older, I used to take my favourite reading books home from school so my parents could help teach me learn, as well as having the usual bedtime story.
How has your taste in books changed as you've gotten older?
Since I was a child, I've always read whatever I've fancied. As I hit my teen years though, I grew to love paranormal and fantasy novels, even those tinged with sex. Those books are still a staple part of my reading diet!
I've also definitely come to appreciate crime books as I've gotten older. Even though, I can't solve them. I've found that some of the authors in the genre are from foreign lands, such as Sweden or Norway. I'm currently reading The Blind Goddess by Anne Holt - originally written in Norwegian.
How often do you buy books?
I'm one of those people who has a "one click addiction" to Amazon - all those eBooks that you can get at one touch of a button. I can do that every few days, and they aren't necessarily very expensive. Some books you can get for as little as 77p, whereas others may be at the £4 mark.
Paperback books, I get maybe every couple of weeks, if something grabs my fancy. I was quite lucky finding loads of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books by Laurell K. Hamilton in the charity shop for £1.50 the other week!
How do you react when you don't like the end of a book?
If it's the first book in a series, I feel sort of lost. There's all this amazing stuff that happens, there's all this build up, there's all this interesting characters that are sure to develop... And then the book falls very flat. If it's a home book, it gets sent to a charity shop. If it's library, it's a straight return.
How often have you taken a sneaky look at the back page of a book to see if it's a happy ending?
I always read the last line - I don't even know why! I think it's stemmed from reading the Harry Potter series when I was younger - namely The Order of the Phoenix, when there was a huge character death. My friend and I were very Sirius about this (I can't believe I wrote that). We had to know, who it was, but the last line never gave it away.
And I've been doing it ever since...
How many people are you going to tag, and who are they?
There's nobody I'm going to particularly tag, because those people never respond!
Yours, with eternal ink,
Zoe
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Currently reading: The Blind Goddess by Anne Holt
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