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Weekly Bookish Question #284 (May 8th - May 14th):
Tell me about a book that made you feel younger or older than you are!
The only book that ever made me feel old was my gigantic Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary. This thing is old itself, I grew up using it. Now it makes me feel old because everyone else turns to Google while I turn to a physical book. And it doesn’t have yeet in it which makes me happy.
yeah, I can see how using a real, printed dictionary might make you feel old :D
Has it ever failed you and you had to turn to google, or is it as useful as ever?
It has failed me a few times, because English changes with each passing year and words are added to dictionaries/vernacular that my old one just doesn’t have. To be fair though, I still didn’t turn to Google, I just asked my dad instead. =P
Thankfully, though, it only failed for three words total thus far. Within my lifetime, those are pretty darn good odds!
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Weekly Bookish Question #284 (May 8th - May 14th):
Tell me about a book that made you feel younger or older than you are!
The only book that ever made me feel old was my gigantic Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary. This thing is old itself, I grew up using it. Now it makes me feel old because everyone else turns to Google while I turn to a physical book. And it doesn’t have yeet in it which makes me happy.
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Weekly Bookish Question #283 (May 1st - May 7th):
Tell me about a recent book you’ve read that was genuinely surprising in some way (can be good, bad, or neither)!
That’s going to have to be Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner. I had never heard of Nat Turner before nor his insurrection. Everything about the book was surprising: the color choice, the minimal text used, what the text was, what Nat Turner did, who Nat Turner truly was, the aftermath of his insurrection, who all was killed, etc.
It was by far the most grim slave narrative I’ve encountered and the only one I’ve read where I wasn’t sympathetic to the slave. He was a horrible human being, delusional at best, and he has lives on his head—so much blood on his hands, most of it innocent. Utterly unfathomable.
I was also surprised to learn it occurred not far from where I now live, so it’s a bit of harrowing local history. I ended up talking about that book for over a week and it took the entire second half of the semester to fully digest enough to just be able to do the homework.
It’s an amazing book and I highly recommend, it’s one of only two books this semester I rated 5/5. The book is phenomenal, the man it is about was deplorable.
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Weekly Bookish Question #281 (April 17th - April 23rd):
What’s the longest book you’ve read recently? Did you fly through it or did you “feel” every page?
The longest book we read this semester was Emil Ferris’ debut graphic novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters. I read it mostly in one evening, but it did actually take a few days to get through. I didn’t necessarily “feel” every page but I did taste every page. The book triggered a synesthetic response, so the entire graphic novel tastes like kale chips!
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Weekly Bookish Question #282 (April 24th - April 30th):
We’re a quarter of the way through 2022 - what have been your favorite reads so far?
Considering I haven’t read much beyond my required course reads, I’m going with favorites from my semester:
For my expository writing course that focused on war poetry: Simonides’ “Thermopylae” epitaph, Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and Rudyard Kipling’s “Epitaphs of the War 1914-1918”.
For my graphic novel literature course: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land, Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner, and Richard McGuire’s Here.
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Last Book I …. challenge
I wasn’t tagged, I saw it on @lizziethereader’s blog and wanted join in.
Bought: Colonial Williamsburg reprint of the Articles of Confederation, and a few other reprints they make.
Borrowed: I don’t borrow because I am as bad as everyone else, I tend to not return books and forget about them and then discover them years later and feel awful for stealing someone’s book. Therefore, I don’t borrow (or lend).
Was gifted: Some books by Edith Wharton.
Gave to someone else: I don’t know, it was several years ago now.
♀️ Started: Analects by Confucius
✅ Finished:Nat Turner by Kyle Baker
✨ Gave 5 stars: Nat Turner by Kyle Baker
♀️ Gave 2 stars: My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Didn’t finish: Maus I by Art Spiegelman.
I tag @espanhois@roentgeniuum@dust-of-fandoms&@studium-stardust as well as anyone who wants to share books in a short questionnaire format.
Weekly Bookish Question #280 (April 10th - April 16th):
To what extent do you think the quality of the previous book you read influences your enjoyment of the current one? Is the bar higher for the next book you pick up after a really good read? Or can you keep them completely separate?
It only influences next or current read, if the books are from the same series or same author. Otherwise, whatever I read previously has no bearing on the next book.
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Weekly Bookish Question #278 (March 27th - April 2nd):
You know that really intimidating book on your tbr? What would give you the necessary push to finally pick it up?
Which one? Haha, I have a lot of intimidating reads, most of which are 300+ pages. Or just multiple volumes in a series. Absolutely nothing would give me the “push” to pick any one of them up and immediately begin reading. I’ve only just recently gotten into reading again (partly due to school), so I’m picking and choosing things I know I have a chance of finishing to hit that 35 book goal this year. As I gain confidence with reading, those intimidating books become less intimidating and more enticing, so they will naturally be read when I am ready enough to think I can finish one.
I’m thinking next year onward for them, but with the themes of my 1001 challenge, a lot of them will be read in three years or so. Hopefully.
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Weekly Bookish Question #279 (April 3rd - April 9th):
Have you ever accidentally bought a book twice? What did you do with the second one?
Yes I have, more than once in fact. I usually keep it, I like having different editions of the same book. However, if I purchase the exact same edition, I donate it either to a person or a location like Goodwill or a lending library type thing. Sometimes I gift them to friends or family, or I save extras for loaning out and don’t fret about whether they get returned or not.
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Weekly Bookish Question #276 (March 13th - March 19th):
Are there books you read because you thought reading them would make you a better person? Can you give examples? Also, did it?
The one I distinctly remember having a choice over was the dictionary. I read the whole thing cover to cover in elementary school because I thought it would make me more intelligent and expand my vocabulary. I’m sure it did but what it really did was tech me how to find things in the dictionary, how to write out pronunciation keys for words, and spark a desire to collect words. It also made me unbeatable in Scrabble for a few years.
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