BBAW Day 3 – Book Reading Meme Austen Style

Day three of Book Blogging Appreciation Week presents a daily blogging topic as a book reading meme, where we were give a set group of questions to answer and encouraged to be creative. Never one to take the obvious or easy road, I decided to challenge myself beyond just answering the questions from my point of view and respond as Jane Austen might have one of her characters reply from one of her novels.

Check out all of the other great bloggers book reading meme answers at the BBAW blog. 

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

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can. 

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. 

Fiction, Non-fiction, or both? 

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. 

Hard copy or audiobooks? 

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best. 

Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point? 

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. 

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

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! 

What are you currently reading? 

It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda”; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best–chosen language. 

Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can you read more than one at a time? 

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and exertion should always be in proportion to what is required. 

Do you have a favorite time of day and/or place to read? 

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. 

Do you prefer series books or stand alone books? 

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

Is there a specific book or author that you find yourself recommending over and over? 

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. 

How do you organize your books? (By genre, title, author’s last name, etc.?) 

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a bibliophile is in possession of a good bookcase, must be in want of a book. 

Cheers, Laurel Ann