You Read to Be Entertained

You remind others to have fun. Life should always be celebrated. You love to dance. You express yourself through movement, and you’re rarely sitting still. You’re optimistic about life. You feel excited about what’s to come… love, work, and new experiences. You feel at ease around others. You are a very socially oriented person.

Your Name is Miss Selina Collins

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! – Jane Austen

You are a Dreamer

You tend to have your head in the clouds. You love to be drawn in to a whole other world. You are a sensitive person. You find it easy to be emotionally effected by books. You are a person with a few deep interests. If you’re drawn to something, you learn everything about it. You are a person who loves to acquire possessions. You can’t resist a sale, and you own a lot of things.

What are you bookish results at Blogthings?

It’s time for another “Quizzical Monday”!

Question:

What is the title of the last story by Stefan Zweig that he sent to his publisher only days before his suicide?

Leave a comment with your answer. Then, to see whether you got it right,  click on "Show" below.  As usual, there is nothing to be won, this is just for fun!

Making beads out of used books and turning them into bracelets sounds like the perfect combination to me. You can choose between art bracelets, travel bracelets, music, nature and so on….every time the beads are made from books corresponding with the theme you chose.

Love “Wuthering Height”? Get the bracelet! You like “Where the wild things are”? Dito! The prices are very reasonable, just to make a choice is hard! Check the bracelets out at Spellbound Beads!

A small computer problem (motherboard failure) causes me to interrupt my blogging activities for a hopefully short time. While John is slaving away fixing the damn thing I will use the time to read more. Thank God a delivery from Awesome Books has arrived on Saturday…

Carin sent me all this:

She knows I love bags as much as the next girl (or maybe even more) from our big grocery bag exchange in 2010.  So she got me a book bag from Powell’s together with some bookmarks, a postcard, a store map (yes, that store has its own map and from the looks of it it certainly needs it) and a sticker (I believe anyone telling me they got lost in the city of books!) as well as another large red shopping bag from a store called Food Fight, a vegan grocery/convenience store in Portland. It’s very sturdy and will definitely accompany on my future shopping trips. Thanks, Carin, for the awesome goodies!

This is a collection of essays and my first encounter with David Foster Wallace. The first essay is about “Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley” and it starts like this:

When I left my boxed township of Illinois farmland to attend my dad’s alma mater in the lurid jutting Berkshires of western Massachusetts, I all of a sudden developed a jones for mathematics.

I am only a few pages into this and I find it quite different.

What is YOUR book beginning today? To see more book beginnings go to A few more pages!

Have you got a tumblelog? If so, link me up, please!

It’s time for another “Quizzical Monday”!

Question:

It’s about a classic today.

What book does Julien Sorel belong into? What are the names of the two real people who were the character models for Julien?

A hint: This is the author of the book.

Leave a comment with your answer. Then, to see whether you got it right,  click on "Show" below.  As usual, there is nothing to be won, this is just for fun!

This week I mostly got books to feed my McCall Smith addiction and to add a bit more by M. C. Beaton to my shelf. More to come next week.

I swapped

• Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M. C. Beaton. Since I liked Hamish Macbeth, I decided to try out the Agatha Raisin series as well.

I bought

• The comforts of a muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith
• The lost art of gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith. Those two are the fifth and sixth book in the Sunday Philosophy Club series.  

From the library

•  The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

What was in YOUR mailbox recently?  Check out other In my mailbox participants here.

For the Mount TBR challenge 2012 as well as to continue last year’s Steampunk challenge I am reading “Changeless” by Gail Carriger right now. I am sure quite a few of you know it already.

This is the first paragraph:

“They are what?”

Lord Conall Maccon, Earl of Woolsey, was yelling. Loudly. This was to be expected from Lord Maccon, who was generally a loud sort of gentleman – the ear-bleeding combination of lung capacity and a large barrel chest.

I would say this is the typical style of the Parasol Protectorate books. Have you read any of them? Did you like them?

What is YOUR book beginning today? To see more book beginnings go to A few more pages!