GoodBooks and Good Wine is making a 15 day blogger challenge, it sounds like a fun
way for book bloggers to get to know each other so I jumped the train.
Today’s
challenge is 15 book related confessions:
1.- If
you have read some of my reviews you might have stumbled upon the fact that my
official reader poker face is non-existing. So I don’t usually read in public
places when the book has tendencies to make me laugh, cry or scream.
2.- Following the first one you must know that my
roommates have assigned “reading hours” because of my tendency to react to some
books.
3.- I
get mad with books, sometimes we need to take a break but you must know it’s
not me it’s a character or part of the story line, most of the times we make up
and I am able to finish the story.
4.- I’m
not a fast reader, yet I wouldn’t call myself a slow reader either. I read a
the pace the book is setting for me.
5.- I
rarely read Non-Fiction.
6.- I
have this strange believe that when you start a book you are making a sort of
contract, not because of the author but because of all the work the author put
into the book it has a soul.
7.- Warner
from Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi is the first bad guy that has won over the good
guy and is not in my FC list (Fictional Crush).
8.- I
hate cover make-overs in series I think it is a slap in the face for the fans.
9.-
Audio books are not what I expected, I thought it was going to be something
closer to those old school radio novels/series. Yet some narrators make the
story come to life and most of the times make up for the fact that they are not
what I expected.
10.- I
judge publishing houses by how they treat people in Comic-Con.
11.- I
avoid books that make me cry and if I’m going to get the book it’s going to be
an audio book.
12.- I
can’t deal with books that make the girl go all stupid for a guy.
13.- I
love bookmarks yet I don’t use them I use receipts, recycled pages,
presentation cards, practically anything but bookmarks.
14.-
Even if I’ve been blogging for more than a year I still have problems
remembering some character’s name. It makes sense when I am reading the book
yet as soon as I disconnect myself from the book I can’t really remember the
names of the character but I do know what each of them did.
15.- I
hate this about myself but I judge a book by its cover! If the cover doesn’t
have a kind of appeal to me no matter how good the blurb is I won’t read it,
but if a good fellow blogger or a friend recommends and he/she is in my trusted
list I will read it.
I hate cover makeovers as well. If they *must* do it, they should wait until all the books are out so you can have a choice of the cover you want.
ReplyDeleteExactly! You leave your readers with incomplete collections and it is as you said they should wait until the series is over and then let the readers pick, I know it reflects on higher costs for them but they should have thought it through.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on #5, non-fiction tends to feel like homework and I am well out of school. #12 - absolutely. That's on my list too. #13 - funny, I am sometimes gited bookmarks and yet I'm like you - I use old receipts. Heh! Great list!
ReplyDeleteI don't know why but yes old receipts make some of the best bookmarks for me :)
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