Something a little lighter today. Stolen from Rachel Held Evans.
Can you name…
1. A book you threw across the room in anger
2. A book in which you underlined nearly every sentence.
3. A book you were surprised to love.
4. A book you can’t wait to read.
1) Actually, no. I can't remember the last time a book made me angry. I tend to not read things I know will really bug me and lately I give up anything that doesn't hold my attention. My relationship to books is much different than something like television where I have no idea what I'll be in for week to week. I'm feeling kind of sad about this at the moment, like maybe I should be having stronger emotional reactions to books, besides weeping which is definitely a reaction I have to certain books. I remember seeing people say they threw Mockingjay across the room but I loved that book fiercely. Maybe I'm not critical enough of a reader? Maybe I'm reading too passively? I don't know.
2) The most recent book in which I have done a lot of underlining, which has led to me not reviewing the book in a timely fashion is Naked Spirituality by Brian McLaren. Lots of wisdom, lots of "sit up and take notice of your life, Amy" moments while reading this book. Also, I should note I NEVER underline in books (and recently paperbackswap members have been sending me books with lots of underlining.) so it's kind of remarkable that I did in this one, but it was an ARC so for some reason I felt much more free to do so.
3) I read The Pirate Queenby Patricia Hickman earlier this year and was really surprised by how much I loved it. I expected it to be sort of an average read, but instead it was really lovely and thoughtful. This question is harder for me to answer because lately I'm really picky about what I read. Oh! I remember I was surprised by how much I loved The Host by Stephenie Meyer. That was a few years ago now, though.
4) OH SO MANY. One I'm really really looking forward to is Dancing on Glass by Pamela Ewen.
I hope you'll answer in comments or on your own blog and drop the link in comments!
Friday, May 20, 2011
Fun Book Stuff
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I don't throw books across the room either. If you are a passive reader I am too - I do cry at books and laugh at funny ones, but I can't remember ever hating a book to that extent (although like you I do love certain books fiercely). I just stop reading if it's that bad.
Yeah I guess we just let things go? I'm honestly trying to remember feeling betrayed by a book, but I can't think of a single time.
I don't think I've ever thrown a book in anger and don't think I've thrown anything in anger since I was a small child.
Aw, good point. I can't think of throwing anything in anger, either!
I don't throw my books across the room, or books I've borrowed, or library books. So that pretty much just leaves ARCs, and I don't get enough of them to do lots of book-throwing. But I'd like to. I find it deeply satisfying to chuck books across the room, as long as I chuck them away from my DVD player and computer.
LOL. Do you ever want to throw books?
Oh my... I think I have thrown a book across the room.... (ok maybe that is dramatic.... tossed it frustrated on the table is probably more like it) - I think it was book club read but for the life of me can not put a title to it. Now that's going to bug me. :)
Little Bee? JUST KIDDING. But I hated that book.
No, but that made me laugh - we did read that as a book club and I did not like it either.
There is only one book that I've ever thrown across the room and that is Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT. The reason is that McEwan breaks faith with the reader deliberately and horribly at the conclusion to the book, in a way that says that the possibility of love and redemption is a cruel illusion, even though for two-thirds of the book he's held up that possibility very convincingly. That being said, and even though I felt manipulated by the author, the book is the most compelling, well-written, and clever anti-romance I've ever read.
I saw the movie and I can see how the experience of reading it would be completely different. I do want to read that book at some point.
I can recall (1) book that made me *want* to throw it across the room, but I didn't (the title is a blank at the moment, though, ack!). As much as I disliked that book specifically, I still like books, and yeah, I don't throw things.
I am on the hunt for a book I want to throw! If you ever remember the title, you must come back and share.
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