Meme Monday

46. The most money I’ve ever spent in the bookstore at one time?
~$400, I think. It was on textbooks.

47. How often do you skim a book before reading it?
If I’m just browsing and see something that looks interesting, I usually open the book to somewhere near the back and read a little before I buy it. If I’m looking for a specific book that I’m really set on reading, I usually pick it up without looking through it first.

48. What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?

Only really bad writing or terrific boredom.

49. Do you like to keep your books organized?

Yes, but I now have too few shelves and too many books, so there are a lot of them sitting in unorganized piles on my floor.

50. Do you prefer to keep books or give them away once you’ve read them?

Keep books.

51. Are there any books you’ve been avoiding?

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy as mentioned before.

52. Name a book that made you angry.

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. I thought the end was such a cop out.

53. A book you didn’t expect to like but did?

I really enjoyed The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I didn’t think I would because it was recommended to me by a friend with very different taste in books.

54. A book that you expected to like but didn’t?

I expected to like Lighthousekeeping  by Jeanette Winterson more than I did. I also expected to like Then We Came to the End  by Joshua Ferris more than I did. I didn’t even finish it.

55. Favorite guilt-free, pleasure reading?

Anything from my youth.

This is the last of the first meme for Meme Monday! Now I have to find another for next week... I liked just being able to hit post for the last four weeks.

In other news, I'm starting nanowrimo this week. Check it out here. The website is pretty slow. I think that's because today is the first day, so the site is getting a lot of traffic. I fully expect to fail miserably at this challenge (why did they put it in November? If the rest of the world is like me, this is one of the craziest months of the year), but hopefully I'll get some writing done. We'll see. 

Also, most of my posts this month will be related to NaNoWriMo. Just a warning.