Teddy Radiator

delphipsmith, thank you for that fascinating look at your reading history. I was so inspired by it!

( TMI About My Filthy Reading Habits )

Like many of you, I adore books and love to read. If I love a book I will read it over and over - I have been known to read 'The End', then turn back to page one and start again. If I love a book, I read the hell out of it. But I am a bibliophile's nightmare. I am no respecter of books - I treat them like whores at a gang bang. I crack spines, I dogear pages, I read while eating and spatter them with food; I take them into baths and expand them to twice their size. I highlight important or pertinent sentences and write in the margins. I am jealous and rarely loan books; I also caution friends to never loan me a book - if I really like it, you may not get it back.

You have only to look at my book collection to see my favourite, most loved books - they are the ones that look like they've been run over by a bus. The pristine books are either copies of my favourites (I often buy two and keep one safe - like my HP books, and kmhmd gave me two copies of Oldest Living Confederate etc as a gift, and one's autographed, so it never gets opened) or they are books that never get read past the first reading. I thank the book gods for Kindles - now I can read to my heart's content and no books are harmed in the process.

Meme Rules: Books (in no particular order) that have stayed with you in some way. Don't take more than few minutes and don't try to list the "right" or "great" works. These are books that I have read all throughout my life (I read Island of the Blue Dolphins as a pre-teen and it's still one of my favourites).

It also strikes me as interesting how many are told as biographies (*) and in first person.
( Books That Have Stayed With Me )

I can't stand it, I have to jump on the bandwagon when a good meme comes by. I actually get really tickled when people respond to my meme offerings.

Just to prove that I’m a meme ho:

The book I am currently reading: For The Potions Masters Amusement. Yes, I am reading it again. It makes wonderful before bed reading – and it’s darn good research for the fic I wrote for Sempra.

The book I am currently writing: The Family. It is the sequel for my story, Her Minder.

The book I love to read the most: I have a few: Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All, by Alan Gurganus. Seriously, one of the best novels ever written. And Shogun. A fantastic tale of intrigue, war, and 17^th century sex. How can you go wrong?

The last book I received as a Gift:  South of Broad, by Pat Conroy. Conroy is a stunning Southern writer. If I have any descriptive talent, it is because I am so inspired by his style of writing. It is always intense, colourful and absorbing.

The last book I gave as a gift: Gave Mum the first two books of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. I'm not sure of the titles, but they are sexy stuff, according to Motha.

The nearest book to me: I am sitting in front of a massive bookcase of cookbooks. When I turn around….Ruby Ann Boxcar’s Down Home Trailer Park Holiday Cookbook. As cookbooks go, it’s probably my favourite and the one I recommend the most.