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Reader Meme

Hardback or paperback?
yes.

Highlight or underline?
In a reading book, never. In a textbook in college, pencil line in margin. Photocopied references now? Highlight.

Lewis or Tolkien?
Neither one is as good as I remember them being when I was 12.

E.B. White or A.A. Milne?
Milne.

T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings?
Neither

Stephen King or Dean Koontz?
Neither

Barnes & Noble or Borders?
Whichever is closer, but I'm more likely to shop Amazon.

Fantasy or science fiction?
Fantasy

Horror or suspense?
Suspense

Bookmark or dogear?
Bookmark. I only dogear the review books so I can remember stuff I need to quote.

Hemingway or Faulkner?
Hawthorne

Fitzgerald or Steinbeck?
Woodehouse

Homer or Plato?
Homer

Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser?
Shakespeare

Pen or pencil?
Pen. Rather fond of Pilot rubbergrips.

Looseleaf or notepad?
Notepad. Particularly fond of those little blue books you took exams in in college, and bought up fistfuls of spares right before I finished my master's.

Alphabetize?
No, they're separated by theme.

Dustjacket: on or off?
Off when reading, on when stored.

Novella or epic?
Depends.

John Grisham or Scott Turow?
Terry Pratchett.

J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket?
J.K. Rowling

John Irving or John Updike?
Neither

Fiction or non-fiction?
50/50 mix

Historical biography or historical romance?
50/50 mix

A few pages per sitting or finish at least a chapter?
As much as I can read in the time I have to read. If it's a paragraph, okay; if it's a chapter, better. Any time I'm sitting still, I want to be reading.

Short story or creative non-fiction essay?
Short story. Most "creative non-fiction" makes me want to spork my eyes out.

"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"?
Either, since one of my favorite fantasies (Wrinkle in Time) starts with dark and stormy.

Buy or borrow?
Buy or am given at cons/to review

Book reviews or word of mouth?
All of the above, and then write a review of my own when possible.