Motivation

1. What is your favorite kind of reading? Novels? Biographies? Mathematical textbooks?
2. What do you like best about your favorite kind of reading? What keeps you coming back to that kind of book? Following a gripping story? Watching characters develop? Being educated about things and places you didn't know about? Letting your mind relax into someplace completely different?

If you want, highlight the stuff in the box, then copy it to your blog.

<a href="http://bookingthroughthursday.blogspot.com">Booking Through Thursday</a> <p> <ol> <li><em>What is your favorite kind of reading? Novels? Biographies? Mathematical textbooks? </em>Reply here</li> <li><em>What do you like <em>best</em> about your favorite kind of reading? What keeps you coming back to that kind of book? Following a gripping story? Watching characters develop? Being educated about things and places you didn't know about? Letting your mind relax into someplace completely different?</em>Reply here</li> </ol>

Reading Geography

So, last week, we asked if you ever feel compelled to cook or eat the kinds of food described in the books you read.

This week, the question is about the locations of the books.

1. Have you ever wanted to travel to a place described in a book?
2. Have you ever ACTUALLY travelled to a place because of the way it was described in a book?
3. And if so, did it live up to the expectations, feelings, emotions you expected from the book? Did you feel like Anne was going to come romping around the corner of Green Gables? Was it as if Jo was upstairs at Orchard House, scribbling on a story? Or was it just a museum, or just a city street? Like Abbey Road without the Beatles?

If you want, highlight the stuff in the box, then copy it to your blog.

<a href="http://bookingthroughthursday.blogspot.com">Booking Through Thursday</a> <p> <ol> <li><em>Have you ever wanted to travel to a place described in a book? </em>Reply here</li> <li><em>Have you ever ACTUALLY travelled to a place because of the way it was described in a book? </em>Reply here</li> <li><em>And if so, did it live up to the expectations, feelings, emotions you expected from the book? Did you feel like Anne was going to come romping around the corner of Green Gables? Was it as if Jo was upstairs at Orchard House, scribbling on a story? Or was it just a museum, or just a city street? Like Abbey Road without the Beatles? </em>Reply here</li> </ol>

Eating your way through fiction

This week's questions were inspired by Caroline. She can't read The Joy Luck Club without thinking of potstickers and wontons... And no, we're not talking about cookbooks here. Please leave those out of this discussion. ;-)

1. Do you enjoy books that have cooking or eating scenes in them?
2. Have you made or eaten anything that was inspired by a recipe or scene in a book?

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<a href="http://bookingthroughthursday.blogspot.com">Booking Through Thursday</a> <p>This week's questions were inspired by <a href="http://karolineknits.blogspot.com/">Caroline</a>. She can't read <em>The Joy Luck Club</em> without thinking of potstickers and wontons... And no, we're not talking about cookbooks here. Please leave those out of this discussion. ;-) <ol> <li><em>Do you enjoy books that have cooking or eating scenes in them? </em>Reply here</li> <li><em>Have you made or eaten anything that was inspired by a recipe or scene in a non-cooking book? </em>Reply here</li> </ol>

Planning Ahead

1. Do you plan ahead for your reading? Work off of a to-be-read pile? A reading list? Or do you wing it, choose whatever you're in the mood for?
2. If you do plan ahead, how far ahead? Do you have two or three books waiting in queue? Or are you backed up by dozens of volumes waiting their turn?
3. If you do not plan ahead . . . well, never? What about if you're reading a series? Or someone gives you a book for a present?

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<a href="http://bookingthroughthursday.blogspot.com">Booking Through Thursday</a> <p> <ol> <li><em>Do you plan ahead for your reading? Work off of a to-be-read pile? A reading list? Or do you wing it, chooe whatever you're in the mood for? </em>Reply here</li> <li><em>If you do plan ahead, how far ahead? Do you have two or three books waiting in queue? Or are you backed up by dozens of volumes waiting their turn? </em>Reply here</li> <li>If you do not plan ahead . . . well, <span style="font-style:italic;">never</span>? What about if you're reading a series? Or someone gives you a book for a present?</li> </ol>

Summer Reading

1. Do your reading habits change for the summer months?
2. If so, how?

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<a href="http://bookingthroughthursday.blogspot.com">Booking Through Thursday</a> <p> <ol> <li><em>Do your reading habits change for the summer months? </em>Reply here</li> <li><em>If so, how? </em>Reply here</li> </ol>