Inspiring Bookworms

BTT asks: Do you keep all your unread books together, like books in a waiting room? Or are they scattered throughout your shelves, mingling like party-goers waiting for the host to come along? *sigh* Hmm... Books that I want to read, have started reading, need to read or said I'd read, did I miss any? Again, I *sigh* as I think of all the books that I SO WANT TO READ and there is just not enough time in life to read them all. It's depressing if I think about it, so I try not to. My books are every where. I even have some in storage, I know, abuse. I can't help it. I move a lot. Otherwise, you can find them next to my bed, on the table in the dining room, in my purse, on my dresser, on hold at the library for me to pick up or my over-flowing bookshelf. Not to mention all of the children's books I read aloud to my kids. Those are floating everywhere too, just in case they want to pick one up. No rhyme, no reason, they are just every where. Even books that I hav...

Do you read any author's blogs?  If so, are you looking for information on their next project?  On the author personally?  Something else? Go here if you'd like to join this week's topic of conversation.  You can link your own post or join just in comments. Well, when I read this weeks meme, I first thought, "No", but then I remembered a newly published author that I've been keeping tabs on.  I'm reading her first novel now, " Around the World in 80 Dates "  and am looking forward to the next. I'm just about as good with knowing authors of books as I am at remembering or knowing singers/bands of songs or details of movies.  There are, of course, some that I know, but even some of my favorites leave me blank when I try to bring them up in conversation - so I don't, usually.  Trivia, forget it. What about you?  Do you read author's blog to get more info on them personally, their work or something else? Happy Reading!!

If you'd like to join in, go here . " Have you ever been put off an author’s books after reading a biography of them? Or the reverse - a biography has made you love an author more?" Since I haven't necessarily read a biography on any authors I've read, I guess I really can't answer this Booking Through Thursday question of the week.  Of course, I'll read the backside of the book that has a snippet of the author or I may catch an interview on T.V., but that is about it.  Either way, I don't feel it influences to read or not to read their works.   **I do have one exception to this..  I recently learned that a girlfriend from high school has published two novels and is working on her third.  Well, of course, I have to read 'em!!  I'll be starting the first one tonight. When I enjoy a book, I tend to look up other work by the same other and read those as well.  I also like to get recommendations from friends or other readers to broaden my range or ...

If you'd like to join in, click here . "Since 'Inspiration' is (or should) the theme this week … what is your reading inspired by?" My response: Easy.  I love to read.  Books.  Magazines. Blogs.  Newspapers.  Reading is such a fundamental skill. I wasn't always like this. I didn't get much of a chance when I was growing up and didn't develop an interest until later in life.  I hated reading assignments in high school and never finished any of the assigned novels.  I'd skim through to get the "jist" of the story and listen to classmates' reviews just so when it came time for me to write my own report or written exam, I'd at least get a passing grade. Now, with three little ones, just as my blog titles states, "Inspiring Book Worms" is what I'm trying to do.  I hope to instill in them what wasn't passed on to me or what I didn't grasp when I was young. Thankfully I love to read now, they see me reading a lot an...