2008: Booking Thru Thursday – Libraries

(Yes, I realize it’s Sunday.  Busy week.) This week’s topic is: Whether you usually read off of your own book pile or from the library shelves NOW, chances are you started off with trips to the library. (There’s no way my parents could otherwise have kept up with my book habit when I was 10.) So … What is your earliest memory of a library?

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2008: Booking Thru Thursday – Gold Medal Reading

This week’s topic: First: Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general? Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both? And, Second: Do you consider yourself a sports fan? Because, of course, if you’re a rabid fan and read about sports constantly, there’s a logic there; if you hate sports and never read anything sports-related, that, too … but you

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2008: Booking Thru Thursday – Endings

This week’s topic… What are your favourite final sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its last sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the last line? As bad as I am with first sentences, I think I may be worst with last ones! I can’t remember a single one. However,

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2008: Booking Thru Thursday – Beginnings

This week’s topic: What are your favorite first sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its first sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the first line? I guess I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to the first sentence of a book.  Or at least, I don’t remember them

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