{"id":126,"date":"2007-03-23T21:32:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T04:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2011-12-13T23:29:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:29:14","slug":"from-our-blog-to-yours-are-you-a-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/from-our-blog-to-yours-are-you-a-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our Blog to Yours&#8230; are you a reader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Sweet Shoppe Blog readers! \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s Ange coming at you tonight with &#8220;From Our Blog To Yours&#8221; and it&#8217;s my first time taking on this blog event! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I was &#8220;blog hopping&#8221; the other day and found this fun little quiz about reading on <a href=\"http:\/\/mel121.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa&#8217;s blog<\/a>. I changed it up a tiny bit, but mainly it&#8217;s some fun questions about what you are reading, what you have read and what your reading habits are. Personally, reading is something I like to do each night before I go to bed. Nothing better than having a great book you are in the middle of that you can&#8217;t wait to read at night (and sometimes I sneak in a few moments during my day as well!)!<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado&#8230; and please feel free to add to your own blog and blog about as well&#8230; or answer a question or two in a comment&#8230; whatever! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Amazon or brick and mortar?<\/strong><\/span> Me &#8211; I rarely buy, but if I do it&#8217;s usually from brick and mortar stores. I try my hardest to borrow books I want to read, and I only buy my absolute favorites. Arissa gets most of her books from the Scholastic Book Club book orders (don&#8217;t you remember those&#8230; LOVED book club &#8220;arrival day&#8221; back in Elementary school!). Bryan gets most of his books from Amazon, and Rees gets most of his books from Santa or the Easter Bunny. We have 4 favorite methods at our house!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Bookmark or dog ear?<\/strong><\/span> Book Mark&#8230; dog earing seems so destructive!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random? <\/strong><\/span>Neither<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Keep, throw away, or sell?<\/strong><\/span> Give them away. I only keep my most favorite books!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Keep dust jacket or toss it?<\/strong><\/span> Keep<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Read with dust jacket or remove it?<\/strong><\/span> With it on<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Short story or novel?<\/strong><\/span> Novels.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket? <\/strong><\/span>Harry Potter<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?<\/strong><\/span> Both &#8211; I stop at the first chapter break when I&#8217;m just &#8220;too tired&#8221;!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>&#8220;It was a dark and stormy night&#8221; or &#8220;Once upon a time&#8221;? <\/strong><\/span>How about &#8220;He noticed her from across the way&#8221;&#8230; lol!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Buy or Borrow?<\/strong><\/span> Borrow. Usually from my mom&#8217;s library because our small town small library leaves much to be desired. And my mother NEVER uses her own library. It&#8217;s so odd to me, but I get good use of her library card! \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m always afraid that they will &#8220;catch me&#8221; checking out books on her card, and take away her card, and when I say that she says &#8220;Oh, I won&#8217;t care if they confiscate my card, I never use it anyway&#8221; and I say &#8220;But mom, I will care!&#8221;.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>New or used?<\/strong><\/span> More likely new, but I&#8217;m not opposed to &#8220;used&#8221;.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Buying choice: book reviews, recommendation or browse? <\/strong><\/span>Recommendations and browsing<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Tidy ending or cliffhanger?<\/strong><\/span> Tidy ending, and leave no strings hanging. Everything must resolve nicely for me to be happy!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Morning reading, afternoon reading or nighttime reading?<\/strong><\/span> Nighttime, right before bed. Sometimes I&#8217;ll steal a little reading during the day.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Stand-alone<\/strong><\/span> or series?<\/strong> I do either.<br \/>\n<strong>Favorite series?<\/strong> Probably Harry Potter.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Favorite children&#8217;s book? <strong>Probably &#8220;The Math Curse&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s hardly a story though.<\/strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Favorite book of which nobody else has heard? <\/strong><\/span>Eve&#8217;s Daughters &#8211; Lynn Austin (I don&#8217;t know if people know of her or not&#8230; lol!)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Favorite books of all time?<\/strong><\/span> Where the Red Fern Grows was my favorite as a child. I really loved the Secret Life of Bees.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>Least favorite book you finished last year? <span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000;\">Eragon &#8211; I did drag myself through it, but I hated nearly every moment of it&#8230; and I know I&#8217;m in the minority on that one &#8211; so many people love that book, just not me!<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>What are you reading right now?<\/strong><\/span> I&#8217;m reading &#8220;Pages from the Past&#8221; by Joann Arnold and just finished &#8220;Princess Academy&#8221; by Shannon Hale.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #336600;\"><strong>What are you reading next?<\/strong><\/span> Whatever my book club decides on next! \ud83d\ude42 (Borrowing Melissa&#8217;s answer for that one!<br \/>\nHave a great weekend everyone! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Sweet Shoppe Blog readers! \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s Ange coming at you tonight with &#8220;From Our Blog To Yours&#8221; and it&#8217;s my first time taking on this blog event! \ud83d\ude42 I was &#8220;blog hopping&#8221; the other day and found this fun little quiz about reading on Melissa&#8217;s blog. 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