bookworm slim, part I.

1. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?

I don’t like to. I hate getting crap all over the pages.

2. What is your favorite drink while reading?

I’m not that hardcore, but why not. Gimme a glass of sangria.

3. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?

It used to horrify me until I got into active reading. If it’s a reference book or really philosophical, I’ll usually add my notes or underline.

4. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ear? Laying the book flat open?

Random scraps of paper. Or business cards & an NYC metro card. I don’t know why, but dog-earing irks me.

5. Fiction, Non-Fiction, or Both?

Both. Especially simultaneously. Good balance.

6. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of a chapter, or can you stop anywhere?

I’m slightly obsessed with finishing a chapter, especially with fiction.

7. Are you a person to throw a book across the room or on the floor if the author irritates you?

I’ve never experienced that type of response from a book. Maybe I need to break out my comfort zone.

8. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop and look it up right away?

If my ipod or dictionary is near me, I always try to. I love learning new words. If not, I use context or underline it for later.

book survey by way of seaponies

2 hours ago
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“Everyone must leave something in the room or left behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.

It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away.

The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”

Fahrenheit 451
3 days ago
my neighbor’s dad gave him two copies of the family by jeff sharlet. he passed one on to me. religion & politics are closer to the edge of my radar, whereas arts & music are dead center. so it feels good to break out my comfort zone with a fresh paperback. the book is awkward as shit, though. eerie. it reads well, but also feels like something out of an alternative universe. like science fiction almost.  but it’s real. and from what i’ve read so far in plain sight (the national prayer breakfast, for instance). the more i fill my head with things i thought i’d never give a shit about, the more i realize why i should. “wisdom is moreso the shedding of ignorance than the gaining of knowledge.” - unknown i’m not far enough in to recommend this to anyone. i’m not even sure if i’ll finish it. it’s weird, but intriguing. we’ll see…

my neighbor’s dad gave him two copies of the family by jeff sharlet. he passed one on to me.

religion & politics are closer to the edge of my radar, whereas arts & music are dead center. so it feels good to break out my comfort zone with a fresh paperback.

the book is awkward as shit, though. eerie. it reads well, but also feels like something out of an alternative universe. like science fiction almost. 

but it’s real. and from what i’ve read so far in plain sight (the national prayer breakfast, for instance). the more i fill my head with things i thought i’d never give a shit about, the more i realize why i should.

“wisdom is moreso the shedding of ignorance than the gaining of knowledge.” - unknown

i’m not far enough in to recommend this to anyone. i’m not even sure if i’ll finish it. it’s weird, but intriguing. we’ll see…

1 month ago