Bout of Books Day 2 Mini-Challenge: Book Confessions

I like Cosmo quizzes too, what? ;)


Challenge
Book Lover Confession hosted by Nyx Book Reviews

Physical book or eBook? - Yikes... Both, honestly, but Ebooks win for convenience and portability. ♥ my Nook. :D
Paperback or Hardcover? - Paperback most definitely! Hardcovers are tooooooo bulky and cumbersome.
Reality or Make-believe? - Usually make-believe... but I do love a nice dose of tear-jerker reality every once in a while too.
Adult or Young-Adult? - More adult now... I think YA trends recently are irritating, to be honest. *Shakes fist at persistent effing instalove*
Dog ears or Bookmarks? - Bookmarks. I like them. I hate folded pages in books. *twitch*
Breaking the spine or Barely open the book? - Umm... well... I don't fold pages... but I do break spines. I'm a terrible person.
Tea or Coffee? - COFFEEEEEEE. And I need some right now. :(
Reading in bed or On the couch? - Comfy couch is preferable. Unfortunately I don't have one of those. Stupid narrow doorways and hall in my apartment! >:(
Series or Standalone? - Depends on the story, really... but I do think that far too many books which should be standalones are being published as series now. Annoying.
Original or TV Adaptation? - This is a trick question right? O_o Original.
Defy motion sickness or Audiobooks? - I don't get motion sickness, but I still love audio.
Author crushes or Who-was-that-guy-again? - Total author crushes. You know who you are, gentlemen. ;)
Interview or Guest post? - Hmm... I've only ever done interviews on my blog so far. I'd like to try a Guest post, though. :D

There you have it... all my dirty little secrets.

Don't judge me. ;)

Bout Of Books Day 1 Update: 5/14 Progress

Update:
I finished off Death Masks (Dresden #5) by Jim Butcher today (which was fantastic!), and then read my first full Read-A-Thon book (which was good, but not fantastic). Looking forward to book number 2! 

Number of books read as of 5/14: 1

Love and Freindship by Jane Austen 

Thoughts:

I can't say that this is one of my favorites of Austen's. It was very quick, and very short, and funny in an over-the-top way, but I find that I much prefer her subtlety. Considering how young she was when writing this though, it's pretty damn impressive.

"Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint--"

Words to live by. ;)

Books Read During Read-A-Thon: 1

Bout Of Books Read-A-Thon Goal / Reading Plan 5/14-5/20

Instead of doing my usual Reading Plan, at the last minute (as is usually my style) I've decided to join up for the Bout of Books Read-A-Thon!

I'm sure we're all used to my usual goal by now (Read 3 books a week to total 160 books in 2012), right? I rarely tend to meet it, but since I have a read-a-thon lending me its willpower, maybe I'll get there this week. Maybe.

The goal for the Read-A-Thon is to read at least 5 of the books below.

Potentials:

The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
The Alloy of Law (Mistborn #4) by Brandon Sanderson
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Glory In Death by J.D. Robb
Among Others by Jo Walton
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
M Is For Magic by Neil Gaiman

This week might not be my most productive reading-wise, despite my grandiose plans to read-a-thon it up, because work is sure to be crazy. I'm the "Unofficial Official" trainer for my team at work, and we have a new person starting on Monday for the 2nd week in a row, meaning that I'll need to train and keep up with my usual workload. But... that's the way it goes sometimes, and all the more reason to escape into bookworlds when I get home, right?

Right. :D

Anyone else participating in the Bout of Books Read-A-Thon? Let me know! I probably won't have much time to socialize between work and trying to get my goal finished, but if you comment here, I'll reciprocate! :D

Quotes I Love...

The Broke and The Bookish's Top 10 Tuesday theme: Favorite Quotes.

I love quotes, but I don't have the memory for them. I should probably start a notebook, or maybe record them here... but I get lazy. So I just roll around in the meaning or imagery of the words for a while, bask in them for a bit, and move on.

Too many books, too little time. (I think Frank Zappa said that. :P)

Anyway, here are some quotes from some books I love. I can't really say that these are my "favorite" quotes (though these are favorite books), but these are ones that could be, if I could know for certain that I wasn't overlooking others even more awesome. :)

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”

 - Different Seasons by Stephen King
 

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

“Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless were going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.”

- The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie

“People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief that makes things happen.”

- American Gods by Neil Gaiman

“I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but like every body else, it must be in my own way.”

- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”

- Horns by Joe Hill

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”

- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

“He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Man... some of these are so representative of everything I love about the book they came from that it gives me goosebumps and makes me ache to read these books again. All of them.  So great. :D

Reading Plan May 7th & New Booksies

Two part post today... Because I'm efficient like that. ;)

Part 1: The Reading Plan - Week of May 7th

Goal: Read 3 books a week to total 160 books in 2012.

So I angrily quit reading Ghost Story. It had taken me almost an entire month to read less than 300 pages (which was about half the book). It makes me mad when books are boring! >:(
I am still struggling to get my 3 books in per week, and I'm starting to fall behind on my goal. I really just need to read more and fiddle around on the internet less. LOL

Here's what I read since the last post:

• Ghost Story (Did Not Finish)
• Summer Knight

I'm currently working on:

• Roadwork (Audio - and I'm not really feeling the reader, so this is also taking FOREVER)
• Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Coming up:

The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
The Alloy of Law (Mistborn #4) by Brandon Sanderson
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
Death Masks by Jim Butcher

What is on the agenda for your reading list this week?

Part 2: New Book Acquisitions

Two books purchased...

The Gathering by Anne Enright
Blinded by Stephen White

...And two books received from friends. I'm a lucky girl! :)

He Is Legend: Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson
(Gifted to me by Chris.)

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
(Gifted to me by Ala)