Hardback, trade paperback or mass market paperback?
Either
Barnes & Noble or Borders?
Any bookshop is wonderful!
Bookmark or dog-ear?
Book mark or anything to prevent me from dog-earing a page. I've even been know to use loo roll!
Amazon or brick and mortar?
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random?
Usually by size of book
Keep, throw away or sell?
Usually keep
Keep dust jacket or toss it?
Keep
Read with dust jacket or remove it?
With dust jacket
Short story or novel?
Novel
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
Harry Potter
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
Both
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"?
"It was a dark and stormy night"
Buy or borrow?
Buy or perhaps a book ring.
New or used?
Either, I buy both
Buying choice: book reviews, recommendations or browse?
All of these
Tidy ending or cliffhanger?
Depends on the book.
Morning reading, afternoon reading, night-time reading?
Whenever possible! - If I find the book totally gripping I will read and read until finished then feel quite sad that it is finished!
Stand-alone or series?
Both, but I do like to read a series back to back
Favourite series?
I'm greedy, and having more than one - Books by Jennifer Chiaverini, Sue Grafton, Janet Evanovich, Diana Gabaldon & Harry Potter
Favourite children's book?
Spiderwick Chronicles
Favourite YA book?
Not sure
Favourite book of which nobody else has heard?
THE SAMPLER (A Miscellany of other people’s lives) by Judith S. Campbell
Favourite books read last year?
STRENGTH WITHIN: THE GRANGER CHRONICLES by Lee Ann Eckhardt Smith
THE PIANO SHOP ON THE LEFT BANK by Thad Carhart
Favourite books of all time?
Floating Brothel by SIan Rees & A town like Alice by Neville Shute
Least favourite book finished last year?
THE SALT LETTERS by Christine Balint
What are you reading right now?
Just finished Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
What are you reading next?
Welcome to the Great Mysterious by Lorna Landvik
Favourite book to recommend to an eleven-year old?
Harry Potter series
Favourite book to reread?
Too many to mention
Do you ever smell books?
Yes!
Do you ever read Primary source documents?
Yes
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