Welcome to Part 2, peoples!
Remember last week? We began our discussion of 55 quirky book questions as discovered from this blog (amongst others…it’s a tag gone far and wild).
Part 1 showed us many interesting fact about your fabulous Notebook Sisters. Like how Mime doesn’t have much chance to read these days and Cait is raising a cucumber (who bets puberty turns it into a pickle?).
Feel free to do these questions on your own blog! And tell us about it, if you like, so we may sneak over and compare answers with you.
28. Favourite reading snack?
MIME:Chocolate. Obviously. I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. The world could run on chocolate.
CAIT: Aren’t you eating chocolate right now, Mime?
MIME: Shhh.
29. Name a case in which hype ruined your reading experience.
CAIT: I have to confess (and don’t kill me, I’m too fabulous to die) that I didn’t like The Winner’s Curse very much. It looked great. It sounded great. And mostly everyone loves it. But me? I’m the annoying black sheep in this crowd.
30. How often do you agree with critics about a book?
MIME:More often than not, unless the critic is a troll, I do. (By troll I mean those people who find issues with every. single. comma.)
CAIT:Ah…well, actually I’m opposite. (I’m assuming “critic” is working for a magazine or newspaper and not just your average joe-blogger.) I find critics have sucked on a lemon before writing their review.
MIME: But lemons are great! I love sucking lemons!
CAIT: I need say no more.
31. How do you feel about giving bad/negative reviews?
MIME: I used to love deep frying anything subpar. But now I think “how would I feel if I were the author etc.”
CAIT: I have to admit…it’s a lot easier to write a negative review. You can yabber on forever about their failings, lists and lists. And the GIFs you can use! Okay, okay, I digress. While it’s easier to write those reviews, it’s not nicer. And I’m in no way a fan of book bashing. Every author worked dang hard on their book and we should appreciate that!
MIME:
CAIT:Yes, I’m finished now.
32. If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you chose?
CAIT: Didn’t we already answer this? Didn’t I already say Klingon?
MIME: Pretty much. Except, you’re going to have to go a couple of thousand years into the future to get any good reading material.
35. Favorite poet?
CAIT: Who wrote Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue?
MIME: Not you, that’s who.
CAIT:Mime! You may be my new favourite poet! (Although, I admit I do enjoy Lewis Carroll’s nonsense.) Do you poet, Mime?
MIME: I poet. See, we’re doing poetry at school right now, and we mentioned Banjo Patterson. Some of his stuff is pretty funny. That is, the stuff that is funny. The rest is kind of “OOOOHHHH THE WOOOOES OF OUTBACK LIFE!”
36. How many books do you usually have checked out of the library at any given time?
CAIT:Actually at the moment I only have 6 library books out! (Let’s not talk about the reserves waiting for me.) I’ve had up to 10, I believe. See how restrained I am? I deserve a cookie.
37. How often have you returned books to the library unread?
MIME: Embarrassingly often.
CAIT: Fair enough. For me? If I get an unexpected conglomeration of ARCs, then I may send books back to the library. Just recently I sent back The Enemy and Alice in Zombieland and Anna Dressed in Blood, all WITHOUT reading. Too many ARCs. Too little time. (Also Anna Dressed in Blood had a suspiciously close plot to Supernatural. Complete with pinching names. This made me frown.)
38. Favourite fictional character?
MIME: Okay. Cait. Did I read this question correctly? Is it actually asking what I THINK it’s asking???
CAIT: They wish us to choose favourites between all our kids.
MIME: Not going to happen. See why this is such an impossible question? There’s childhood favourites like Peaceable Sherwood from The Sherwood Ring, right up to modern awesome like Celaena Sardothien from Throne of Glass, to hilarious ones like Augustus Waters from The Fault in Our Stars.
CAIT: And Katniss from The Hunger Games, obviously.
MIME: And Cinder from Cinder and Lemony Snicket himself.
CAIT: And Cath and her introvertedness from Fangirl! And Cole and Isabel from The Wolves of Mercy Falls!
MIME: Shall we stop?
39. Favorite fictional villain?
CAIT: I love villains! Let me go wild! Although, the villains in books I like are usually not-so-much-villains, like Warner from Ignite Me and…Caine from the Gone series.
MIME: Movie villains are usually better, though. You know. All the right combinations between terrifying and funny. Like Smeagol. Loki.
41. The longest you’ve gone without reading?
CAIT: Well, my first 5-years were pretty illiterate. I’m ashamed, really, of how little I read.
MIME: I think I learned to read at four. So HAHAHAHHAHAH!
CAIT: True geniuses don’t show all their skills at once. I perfected the Puppy Dog Eyes way before you did, miss. And who always got dessert? Me. And WHO can still wheedle ice cream on a Monday night? (We only get it on the weekends.) I CAN.
42. Name a book that you could/would not finish.
MIME: There are a few of such calibre. Most were school books that I felt insulted my intelligence. But also The Lord of the Rings. I read The Fellowship, but I couldn’t make it to Two Towers. I just… couldn’t. I’d like to one day, though.
CAIT: I have a Thing about not finishing books. It makes me twitchy to have unfinished books lying around. The I confess, I only got 50% into Two Towers before I realised I was reading it just to “say” I’d read it. Which isn’t a very good reason.
43. What distracts you easily when you’re reading?
CAIT: Meal times. Small nephews who steal bookmarks. Small nieces with sticky fingers who try to “read” too. The call of dessert. My sister choking on her hot chocolate and threatening to spit it at me. Normal things, you know?
MIME: Just about everything distracts me when I’m reading, which is a reason I don’t do enough of it.
44. Favourite film adaptation of a novel?
MIME: Catching Fire! No doubt about it.
CAIT: This is haaaard. I want to say Catching Fire, but The Book Thief is incredible! And it’s SO like the book…and Matilda. Matilda is a brilliant movie and the only thing they wrecked was moving them from being British to American. (No offence to the Americans, but a British Ms. Trunchball was scarier.)
45. Most disappointing film adaptation?
CAIT: Where do we start?
MIME: Percy Jackson…1 & 2…Eragon (not that the book was stunning)…The Cat in The Hat….Mr. Popper’s Penguins…
CAIT: Ugh. No more, please. Spare me the memories.
46. The most money I’ve ever spent in the bookstore at one time?
MIME: I actually have a great story about this one. When I did work-experience at the library, they sent me down to the bookshop and said, “Go nuts!” (Not quite. They said “buy 50 board books.”) Still. I spent a lot of library money there. It was brilliant.
CAIT: I spent $12 once.
MIME: That was Big W, not a bookstore.
CAIT: It was a big $12.
MIME: #cheapskate
47. How often do you skim a book before reading it?
MIME: What?
CAIT: Who does that?
48. What would cause you to stop reading a book halfway through?
MIME: If it was impossibly awful, or if I had a really strong disagreement with it.
CAIT: For me, it’d have to be absolutely-awful-terrible-no-good-very-bad-writing.
49. Do you like to keep your books organised?
50. Do you prefer to keep books or give them away once you’ve read them?
CAIT: No. Mine.
MIME: I don’t own many books. Cait owns most of the books, so why buy my own when I can read hers?
51. Are there any books you’ve been avoiding?
MIME: There aren’t many I’m consciously avoiding, but there are an awful lot I haven’t gotten to, yet. Cait would list them out. But I won’t let her. Because it would take too long, and I would look bad.
CAIT: (I’m being silented against my will.) I’m avoiding Wicked, but only because it’s thick and not YA and…it somehow ends on the bottom of my TBR all the time. I’m avoiding finishing the Inkheart series too. My bad. Just basically I avoid most books over 400 pages.
52. Name a book that made you angry.
CAIT: Must that be singular?
MIME: Hold in the little green rage monster, Cait.
CAIT: Okay, I fiercely admit it. Thirteen Reasons Why made me angry. I think it sent a horrible message that condoned bullying and…and…it just ignited my fury. Also, The Last Thirteen series makes me angry because it exists. It’s — okay, I probably shouldn’t rant here. Ranting about books I don’t like is slightly mean.
53. A book you didn’t expect to like but did?
54. A book that you expected to like but didn’t?
CAIT: Don’t get me started. I expect to like most books, I honestly do. Because I’m a very positive person.
MIME: Ha. ha. ha.
CAIT: But I expected to like Taken and A Midsummer’s Nightmare and both had me frowning into the dark night.
MIME: I have so many examples of this, I’m going to pull out a really obscure one from back five or so years ago. I thought I was going to adore Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott, because I’d liked Little Women. I fell asleep about a quarter of the way in.
CAIT: The fact that it’s titled “good” wives leaves me dubious anyway.
55. Favourite guilt-free pleasure reading?
MIME: Guilt free? Really? Those chocolate wrappers are completely guilt free?
CAIT: I don’t feel bad about it. Nope. Not at all. Do I look guilty?
MIME: You know what? I’m at a loss here.
CAIT: I win? I WIN I WIN WIN!
MIME:
Cait and Mime had quite a raucous time doing this two-part post series. They laughed till they cried. They spilt hot chocolate on each other. Even their mother questioned the sudden increase in frivolity. They also remembered a lot of movies they suddenly feel like watching, thanks to these gifs. Like Kung-Fu Panda. Currently, Mime’s reading OF NEPTUNE and Cait’s reading BOY21.
Amazing second half of a post – hilariously funny!I would say that a very dull opening of a book would make me put it down and pick up another, within the first few chapters. I don't care how splendiferous the ending is supposed to be … make the opening interesting too!I attempted these questions on my blog, but rather than all 55 (due to a laziness on my part) I condensed them into just my favourite 27.http://someteenagereviews.blogspot.co.ukTT 🙂
Favourite guilt-free pleasure reading would be historical romances! God, I love me some Julia Quinn, Judith McNaught and Amanda Quick. :DTerrible writing and characters that don't evoke any emotion are pretty much big no-nos.And yes, negative reviews are so much fun to write AND to read! All those GIFs that are just waiting to be used… #SorryNotSorryThanks for the laughs, guys! 😀
This is such an awesome idea for a blog post! What makes me put a book down is, well, I don't really put books down. I like to finish them–even if they're completely, terribly, horribly crappy. But maybe if the writing was really really really really really bad…? Then I'd put it down for sure. But generally I finish everything I read.Favourite guilt-free pleasure reading? I wouldn't know where to begin! Haha! 😉
I just can't get over the fact that you guys seem to pic the PERFECT gifs for every occasion – I love it! On another more meaningful note, I must admit *whispers* that I too have been forced to send many a book back to the library unread because I either a) couldn't restrain myself and borrowed too many or b) had a pile of other books to get through first. Chocolate does make a pretty good reading snack (provided it doesn't smear the pages of course).In terms of guilt-free reading, I love Australian historical fiction, and basically anything by Jackie French, I also love to re-read some of my favourite series such as 'The Rosie Black Chronicles' by Lara Morgan. I do try to finish every book I read, but I'd put it down if I felt it really wasn't connecting with me AT ALL or I had to pick up something else to 'break it up' a little. As always, great post!
I agree that it's a lot easier to write negative reviews, because it's so hard to specifically state what you like, whereas it's easy to be specific with what you didn't like.I've got no idea what to say about 'guilt-free pleasure reading'…I just don't get the concept…What would make me put a book down? It would have to be a really bad book. It takes a lot for me to put down a book, unless I'm on a deadline (and am using the 100-page-test). Once, I was reading a book and I absolutely hated it. Like, seriously, it was horrible. The worst part about it was that the American teenager spoke exactly the same as the cursed-for-300-years-Indian-prince. It was just awful. But I finished it. And, because it did get slightly better after 250 pages (it was a 500 page book), I decided to give the second one a go! (Genius, right?).The second one was worse…and was also 500 pages long…I didn't read the third one.But, yeah, I'm usually pretty determined to finish what I start.
Why is that though?! I mean it shouldn't be so darn hard to rave about a book! I find the 4-star ones hardest to write, because with 5-stars I can fill up a post with gushing. But 4 means I loved it but it was missing something and hum-ha do I even know what the "something" is?! IT'S HARD. (Sometimes I finish awful books so I feel justified writing the angry review. But then I edit the review to make it semi-nice so the entire episode is just a waste of time I think. XD I too usually finish what I start.)
Never change, girls. Seriously. If only my sister wasn't so busy I'd drag her in and do similar posts (when we reviewed Broken Strings we had a lot of fun…or I did, anyway). I too avoid books that are very long. Although at the moment I have nice slim books in my TBR so it's not that much of a problem 😛
I usually have to bribe Mime a little to do these with me. SHE'S SO BUSY ALL OF THE TIME. Being brilliant. *sigh* I loved your guys review of Broken Strings! IT was hilarious. XD
Guilt free reading? What is that? I think the past couple of weeks has made me forget what free time is. This is what happens when you have an assignment due right before a major music exam. Even reading blogs makes me field guilty (at the moment I feel I should be revising my assignment.) Normally? Everything is guilt free. Why feel guilty about reading books? All reading is awesome and should be done as much as possible.What makes me put a book down? If I get bored I put it down. Or if I don't like the main character. I can't stand spending a book with a character I don't like. And also if the book seems to be glorifying things I don't like. Such as bullying for an example. That kind of thing. Apart from that, I'm pretty happy to finish most books.
Alrighty! Favourite guilt-free pleasure reading? Umm. Possibly all the books on Wattpad. You know wattpad? The books there are pretty much YA, pretty much all in the 'chick flick' genre and pretty much written by amateurs. Like the rest of us 🙂 But yes, I like me some Wattpad books (they should be a genre all by themselves)AND. Thing that puts me off a book is having an unreliable narrator (cos I TRUSTED that person to tell me what's what and THEY DIDN'T). But since (from what I've read) having an unreliable narrator is a pretty clever thing to do. So even though I get put off the book I usually go back to it after a year and a half (I know, my hurt runs DEEP) and fall in love with it. Ish. My feelings from the betrayal never leave!
Put me down for 10 dollars, Cait. I bet it'll turn into a pickle once it hits puberty. I second Mime's sentiments however my favorite snack while reading is chips. CHIPS CHIPS AND CHIPS.Naw you're not the annoying black sheep. I am the annoying black sheep. There are people who didn't love TWC. I don't know a single person who didn't love On the Fence. Ewww Mime, who loves sucking on lemons??? You're WEIRRRRD. Like you two, I am not a fan of book bashing but I feel like you can still write constructive(??) negative reviews… .-.The most I've had is 10 which was the limit. HA SUCK IT CAIT!!! :DDDI started reading when I was 6 but learned to read before that *goes to ask her mom*Okay so between the ages 3-4 (she said 3.5 years but yeah).OOo I read some of The Hobbit and almost burst into tears because of how bored I was. I am never going near that book again. MR.POPPER'S PENGUINS WAS A BOOK? I loved the movie but it was a BOOK first? WHAAAAT?For me.. I sometimes do stop half way through the book if I am just bored and am not interested at the moment ya know?LOL, Cait. I don't lend my sister any of my books. When she asks I tell her to go to the library because MINEEEEE.Also it's great that you haven't finished the Inkheart series. I have to wait 6 months to get my hands on a copy (that's how long the whole reserve thing was at the library) of Inkdeath and it was the most disappointing thing EVER. One of my favorite guilt free pleasure reading stuff is your guys' blog <3Rashika @ The Social Potato
Aw, you're too kind. I'll have to prick Cait with a pin. Also. Chips. Yes. Yes, yes. Amen and agreement. I should mention that more. And regarding Mr. Popper's Penguins? When in doubt, it's always a book first. At least 90% of the time, it seems.
I expect to like most books too! And honestly, I do rate most of them fairly well. (Well… some might disagree… but as I've blogged about earlier, I think three-stars is a perfectly decent rating!)And chocolate wrappers definitely count as reading. 😉
If chocolate wrappers (and boxes–I read boxes all the time) count as reading, I'm very well-read. Also, ice cream flavours, just so you get the perfect one. That's very important.
I checked out Throne of Glass just for the two of you, but now I have to send it back. No renewals. 🙁
Now that is a REAL tragedy.
My favorite guilt free would be THE NUTCRACKER. It's a part of my Christmas routine, and one of the only books that I've read more than twice. (It's also my favorite guilt-free watching.)There are plenty of ways to get me to put down a book. If the main character is sticking their nose where it doesn't belong, or willfully defying those who are supposed to be in authority over her, and clearly walking walking into a bad situation, well, it's a huge turn-off for me. I also don't like it when the action gets repetitive. You guys took five years before you started reading? I was listening to books on tape before my first birthday – the classics, at that.
All hail Intelligent Kendra! We were fairly unassuming kids. Then again, I said "hello" at three months. Apparently. I also tried to walk without crawling. But I think every parent claims something similar. You must have been a very cute baby, listening to audio classics. Though I'm imagining baby you with glasses. Hmmm.
I was saying hungry at three months. I don't remember when I started walking, though I do know that I was a late crawler – I backscooted until then.No, I didn't get my glasses until I was six. They were Molly glasses.
LISTENING TO AUDIOS ISN'T READING.
But they were books, and the words were going into my head, so it counts. Also, I got upset if my mom didn't flip the tape, so I was obviously listening. No, I don't remember listening to the books, but the stories are in me, somewhere. I find reading the classics a bit hard now, for deja vu reasons.
Guilty pleasure reads, hum, probably any NA books involving music, bands and touring. I’m completely addicted, even though some of them can end up being a bit too similar. I try to finish books once I start them, but the main thing that would make me stop reading is really bad dialogue, repetitiveness, or if the characters are unbearably annoying. It’s so hard to pinpoint just one thing though, I guess if it’s a build-up of lots of little things that keep grating on my nerves, then I’ll just walk away. Awesome posts girls, and thanks for the laughs!
Bad dialogue is like the cardinal sin of books. Dialogue is so amazing, it can't afford to be dodgy! It's the best part! Oooh, I love music-books, too. They're fun. As a musician, I relate whenever someone talks about music, so they rate high on my enjoy-list.
I like sucking lemons. They make me happy. :)As for the questions, I don't normally read things that make me feel guilty … I wouldn't want to do that. I like to read funny stories – and my motto is, "The more dialogue, the better". I also like books that make me cry. Although, that might not exactly qualify as pleasure reading … I reread old favorites like Pride and Prejudice and LOTR if I just want to relax. Cait, you said you'd only stop a book halfway if you really hated it. But you stopped The Two Towers halfway through – so that means you must have thought it was pretty awful! :0 But I understand … LOTR can get pretty draggy at some points. I'd stop a book halfway through if it was too boring, I didn't like the characters, or it had graphic icky stuff. I use to read just about everything (starved for books) but now that I've got access to a lot of books at the awesome library, I've become very choosy. Life is too short to read books I'm not enjoying!
Ugh. *leaves all the lemons to you and Mime* I wasn't ever even that keen on pancakes with lemon and sugar. Nice, but…just give me the jam.I love dialogue too! That's probably why I loved Aristotle & Dante so much, actually, because it was basically FULL of dialogue. XD Ohhhh, weeeell…I read the first half of the Two Towers a LONG time ago. (Maybe 5 years now?) Mostly it's these days that I absolutely don't ever stop reading. I really struggled with Tolkien's style and language. My brain rejects it. I need lots of dialogue and just simple books. 😐
Woooo more questions that I can read about and learn (stalk) my favorite sisters c:haha. I totally agree with you Cait regarding Winner's Curse, ending up giving it 3.5. Lol figured from all the hype it'd at least make four stars but that wasn't the case. I have high hopes for a sequel though. There's just so much more to be explored. I was just underwhelmed by The Winner's Curse.I'm good with negative reviews, as long as they don't cross the imaginary line where they criticize the author. That's a definite no no for sure. However as book bloggers I feel like it's our job to write honest reviews, so if we don't like a book? Then we should be able to say that without feeling ashamed for our opinions.I used to go crazy at the library. LOL when I was like 11 I checked out the ENTIRE magic treehouse series. At the time there was like 30 ish books give or take 😮 I was a crazy kid. Haha, I hardly go to the library now. Mainly because the one that was near me shut down and opened in this really far away location :[ Haha. Yeah, the fictional character favorite question is utterly bonkers! I love so many characters, and there's so many categories to them. Like there's the ones I want to marry and the ones I want to be and the ones I admire. I find this question as ridiculous as the favorite book question, like is choosing one even a thing people do??? o.O haha, I certainly don't.Ooooo. Favorite film adaptations of books are hard! I know people say the book is always better, but I've actually enjoyed a lot of films based on movies. Like TFIOS, allllll of the Harry Potter and LOTR trilogy. There's just something amazing about seeing your favorite characters and scenes coming alive on the big screen. But omg the Percy Jackson movie was too disappointing. I've read every book in that series and absolutely adored them. I excepted the movie not to be as good, but I didn't except it to be on a totally different negative level O.o There were so many bad choices in that film, it was basically like a bad action film with its cheesiness. I actually finished the Inkheart series! Wooo point to me [; But… i don't really remember it all. Lol I'd totally send you my copy of Inkdeath Cait! But omg imagine the shipping costs 😮 Especially with a book that heavy Jesus it could be a murder weapon. Though, I suppose most things can be a murder weapon if you think about it. *mime and cait stare at Larissa warily* GUYS I'M NOT A MURDERER I SWEAROkay, so what would make you put a book down is if there's literally so many negative things about a book that it overcomes the positive. Also, if I've been plowing through a book for 39848329048 days and just seem to be getting nowhere. There comes a point where I realize I could be reading a story that I would enjoy so much more, hence I DNF it. Loved stalking, erm casually reading about your lives again [; .
Definitely "causal reading" right. BA HAHA HAH. You hit it on the head there: underwhelmed. EXACTLY my thoughts. I didn't even ship Arin and Kestrel, and they're like a frantic ship in the book blogging world. What's wrong with me?! hehe, I feel better knowing you didn't adore it THAT much either. (I think I gave it 3-stars? I didn't hate it…just didn't love it.)I love the crazy characters the most too! Actually most of the people in books that I adore beyond everything I actually would NOT want to know in real life. Like Ronan from The Dream Thieves. I wouldn't even want to meet him, but he's one of my favourite literary characters EVER. x)At least Percy Jackson 2 was a little better, right?! I'm still giggling at the "get off my roof" line. I don't even know why. IT WAS JUST THE FUNNIEST.I own Inkdeath! I do! I actually own the WHOLE series I just…haven't…read them. >-< I should. But then I'd probably need to reread Inkheart and that's just a mammoth undertaking to try doing all 3. *hides in piles of very thin books*
I rarely buy books either. If I buy books, I get them at the library book sale or with my many Barnes and Noble gift cards because people really love giving me gift cards to B&N. Also, I usually only buy nonfiction or how to books that I'll turn to again and again. My guilt free pleasure reading is probably Tintin or Asterix graphic novels. Even though the books aren't quality literature, all of them give me a really good laugh.I also have a problem with unfinished books, so the only thing that would make me put a book down is mature or really disturbing content. I just can't deal with that stuff. Usually, I don't encounter any of that, though, because I choose my books wisely.
I also rarely buy books. When I do buy books, I either buy them at the library book sale or I use my many B&N gift cards because lots of people give me B&N gift cards for my birthday and Christmas.My guilt free reading pleasure is Tintin or Asterix graphic novels. Even though these books aren't great literature, they are so funny, and I can never pass up a good laugh.I, too, rarely DNF books because I choose my books wisely and unfinished books also really nag me. However, when I do DNF books, it is either due to mature or disturbing content. I just can't deal with that stuff. I run away from it.
TINTIN! GO TINTIN READERS. It was my favouritest thing to read when I was small(er). I haven't touched a comic for ages now, but I used to religiously check out every. single. comic in the holidays and just devour them all several times each. 😉 Ha! Don't worry about the double commenting. x) Happens to me a LOT.
Oops! For some reason, my first comment didn't appear until I published my second comment. Sorry.
Smeagol, my precious….I totally think hype can destroy a book for some of us hence I try to avoid the hype. But I guess that is nigh unto impossible lol
Hypes sometimes are fine for me…like These Broken Stars? I absolutely ADORED that and the hype was right! Buuut…there are lots of time where I've been so disappointed I think it's made me dislike the book more.
I am finally, FINALLY almost done composing my list for a post. Of course, I haven't answered the two questions you asked yet (because they are hard!). As for putting a book down, I rarely do it. VERY rarely. I may leave it and come back to it, but I hardly ever abandon them. I have a few times though. One book I'd thought was supposed to be a funny book by an author who mainly writes books about her funny life situations. Pure fluffy fun. Well, it was her foray into a novel, and goodness, I couldn't. It was so boring, I just couldn't do it to myself. So that's kind of my only reason: If a book bores me so desperately I have to stop. As for guilty pleasure reading, I really can't think of any (boring, I know)! I read The Baby-sitters Club even in college, does that count?
Boring books are just such a disappointment! Because if they got published, someone had to have found it interesting, but some are just so… pass the pillow, please? I think I've seen at least 20 baby-sitters Club in every second had book shop I've ever been to. They must have been hugely popular, back in the day.
"Well, my first five years I was pretty illiterate." 🙂 That had me laughing. Guilt-free reading, huh? Sometimes I still pick up Dr. Seuss, or I like to pick one of my little brother's How to Train Your Dragon books, open to where he has it bookmarked, and read it aloud to him in an exaggerated fashion. It's rather fun. 🙂 I would probably stop reading a book probably for the same reasons Mime has. I had strong disagreements with the book. Usually moral though. If I get angry at the characters, but still love the plot or writing, I'll keep reading. Also if nothing is happening, nothing has caught my attention, and the characters are a bore (I hate to admit that books like this actually exist), I'll stop reading it. I wish I had time to finish ever book I start, but time is an elusive thing. If the book is dragging, I'd rather be reading a different one. But if a friend strongly recommends a book to me, I will usually withstand anything to finish it. Even if I don't like it in the end (this happened with Jane Eyre. . . why do people like this book? Why is it a classic? I don't understand).
Jane Eyre is disturbing. I didn't even finish it, and I found it disturbing. And people say teens read violent and cuckoo stuff now. AT LEAST WE DON'T READ ABOUT MAD WIVES BURNING THEIR HOUSES DOWN! (Also, Dr. Seuss is the best.)
I actually feel like a lot of the question repeated themselves, right?! Like some of the language questions, but whatever. IT WAS FUN. I'm glad I found the 55 of them and bribed Mime into our epic discussion. 😉
Ugh, terrible writing and awful characters get me every time. It's when the characters whinge and whine all the time that really bugs me. Shut up and save the world already. X) As you probably can tell, I don't have much patience… my bad. There are WAY too many awesome gifs out there for negative reviews. It's too tempting not to use them all…
What-makes-me-put-down-a-book could be like a whole blog post on it's own, right?! (Except I don't really put down a lot of books because I have bookish OCD like that and dnfing them makes me twitchy.) I even finish the ones with REALLY bad writing, but sometimes I think I should've stopped. It saves me the incredibly ranty review at the end. 😉
*puts on dark sunglasses* We have supernatural gifing skills. What can I say?Borrowing too many books is natural. You can't just borrow ONE, right?! They'd be lonely. I borrow little families, hopefully ones that'd get on well together while they grace my shelf. And also, it makes my shelf look awesome, for like the 3 weeks I get to "own" the books. I once read like every. single. Jackie French book our library had. EVERYTHING. Like from Dark Wind Blowing to Dear Sara (was that what it was called?) to A Rose For the Anzac Boys to Nanberry. Then I got Jackie-Frenched out and haven't read one since.
Love a conversational post from you two! The snark! I literally laugh out loud. I've had this scheduled in to answer for quite a while, but I haven't gotten around to it yet, soon, soon… OK, first up guilt free pleasure reading… I'm not sure. I don't really get embarrassed about anything I read, and the "guilt" I should be feeling is different depending on who I'm talking to, some people just do not get paranormal/fantasy (my sister), some people don't get erotica or any sort of romance book (my bestie), so people don't get fiction at all and only really read non-fiction (my dad) and some turn their nose up if it isn't a classic, which makes everything I read a guilty pleasure. So sue me. Second question, about putting books down. I've written a post or two about this before, I used to have MASSIVE problems with DNFing books, partly because of my bookish-OCD that I would have something unfinished around me, and partly "the fear", the fear that I would put it down right before it turns good. Book blogging cured me of this ailment. So many books, too little time and "bad books" put me in a reading slump, so I've gotten much better and DNFing after I've given a book a fair chance. Doesn't happen too often thankfully.Great post, girls!R x
I know, they did! Plus some of them I just truly couldn't stammer up an entertaining, or insightful answer to and just decided to miss them out!Mime and your discussion blogs are fantastic, and possibly one of the funniest and my favourite blogs ever!
You two are insane!!! *laughs* Loved reading your answers (and laughing)I did this list a while ago (like when it was first published), but I'm now thinking about doing it again…. you thoughts? ;)A couple things that would make me put the book down (or slam it down [or across the room]) is boredom. Absolute horrid writing. Paper flat characters. *shrugs* Stuff like that. TW Wrightravensandwriting.blogspot.com
Quick comment because it's Eid over here so I'm busy stuffing my face with cake BUT-SAME ABOUT THE GOOD WIVES THING. Little Women used to be my favourite book as a kid then I discovered Good Wives and was like erm O____O.THE BOOK THIEF *sobs*bahahahaha you guys I TAUGHT MYSELF HOW TO READ AT THE AGE OF THREE.*prances*
CAINE! I mean of course we want to murder him … BUT WE CAN'T HELP SECRETLY LOVING HIM.Cait Cait Cait you should finish Inkheart!!! GOOD TRILOGY.As for the questions: I don't really know what "guilt-free pleasure reading" means, because surely *all* reading is pleasure reading? Or at least it should be. Other question: I very rarely DNF books, however if the book was very explicit or I strongly disagreed with its main message, I'd probably leave it.
GOOD SECOND POST GOOD GOOD. And also I agree with you about the Inkheart trilogy. I really really LOVED the first book, Inkheart, and then the second book was simply okay. And then I couldn't finish the third. And I don't know if I'll ever get to finish it in the end. Sad life.And all of these questions are so hard to answer! LIKE NO. I haven't even read that much and I still can't list more than one book or character. Sighok ok ok Guilt-free pleasure book…..um…..I'm not sure? andddd, annoying MCs make me put books down. Thats pretty much THE BIGGEST reason. :/I would write more, but typing with one hand is hard, while trying to eat popcorn 😀
I'm going to be a rebel and answer a couple questions you didn't tell me to answer. HA. First, do I like giving negative reviews? I don't mind them. I don't want others to read a book expecting to like it because I liked it, and thus be disappointed. I also don't want to cause offense if anyone's recommendation, however, or if the person reading is the author. (I actually did that once, and I felt horrible for weeks afterward.) However, if I'm just giving my thoughts to my friends about a book, I won't shy from a bad review. As long as I or my readers learn something from the review, it won't be a loss.Most money I ever spent in a bookstore? $50, probably (or somewhere around there). I got the Mistborn trilogy boxed set (completely worth it— if you want epic fantasy that doesn't feel like epic fantasy, read the first book. It's a heist, for goodness sake. Ocean's Eleven with the best magic ever.), as well as the second book in the Partials trilogy (hardcover, so it was more expensive than I'd like). The next few weeks were a lot of fun.Now your questions. Mwahaha. Guilt-free pleasure reading? Terry Pratchett. When I decide it's time for an epic fantasy bigger than a refrigerator, I usually get a Pratchett book at the same time, so I can wind down before or after reading that hunk of pages. Epic fantasy is great, but it's slow, ponderous, and often very altruistic. Sometimes you need a con man running the post office, or the night watch trying to accidentally kill a dragon on purpose. What would make me put a book down? If I don't read the book for the right reason. For instance, I tried to read Terry Pratchett at first with a mind to enjoy the plot, the characters, and the setting. Instead, I found silliness and humor, with very little plot or character to speak of. I put the book down and tried Pratchett again later, and got a delightful tour of a newspaper run by dwarves. The same happened with Robert Jordan (the most epic epic fantasy you'll ever find). I tried to read his first book straight through in a week, I think, which was not the right way to go. You have to slow down and allow yourself to take all the time you need.Good post, you guys.
I love it when you guys do posts together. I want to see another vlog, too! Please? *kitten eyes*I learned to read before I started kindergarten. I started kindergarten right after I turned five. :)Okay. Guilt-free reading? As opposed to guilty reading. Um… I don't really have a answer for this… Okay, got it. I still read Middle Grade and have read almost no YA. And I don't care. MG is fun.What would make me put a book down? Oh boy. Honest answer is that I don't like a lot of "adult content". I don't mind a mention or even a plot line, but it has to be in a way that doesn't make me uncomfortable and it can't be every other sentence. And this is exactly why I don't read YA Contemporary. That much in that way makes me uncomfortable and I can't enjoy the story. That was almost a rant… sorry. Another thing that will make me put a book down is boredom. ~Robyn
You guys are seriously the best when it comes to banters! Like seriously, I had so much fun reading all the questions one by one because of the chuckles you guys will surely give me 😀 And CAIT! You're NOT alone. I didn't like-like The Winner's Curse, either. I was so disappointed in that novel it prompted me to write a 2000 word review lol… I'm embarrassed to even look at it now. AND WHY DID YOU GIVE BACK THE ENEMY?!?!?! Was that by Charlie Higson?? NOOOOOOOOOOOON that book's crazy good!!! EVEN BETTER THAN THE YOUNG WORLD (in my opinion anyway). Borrow it back when you can *puppy eyes*Faye at The Social Potato Reviews