I was tagged yesterday by Angela but was away from my books.
The rules:

Pick up the nearest book.
Open to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people and post a comment on Angela’s blog (she’s the one who tagged me) once you’ve posted your three sentences.

I’ve just started Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle, [...]

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This week’s Booking Through Thursday:
Do your reading habits change in the Spring? Do you read gardening books? Even if you don’t have a garden? More light fiction than during the Winter? Less? Travel books? Light paperbacks you can stick in a knapsack?
Or do you pretty much read the same kinds of things in the Spring [...]

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This week’s Booking Through Thursday:
While acknowledging that we can’t judge books by their covers, how much does the design of a book affect your reading enjoyment? Hardcover vs. softcover? Trade paperback vs. mass market paperback? Font? Illustrations? Etc.?
I can read and enjoy almost anything, but it does help if the font is readable (serif), the [...]

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This week’s Booking Through Thursday:
You’ve just reached the end of a book . . . what do you do now? Savor and muse over the book? Dive right into the next one? Go take the dog for a walk, the kids to the park, before even thinking about the next book you’re going to read? [...]

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This week’s Booking Through Thursday:
Who is your favorite Male lead character? And why?
Probably a toss-up between Aragorn (Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Will Stanton (The Dark is Rising sequence), although I’m very smitten with Eugenides at the moment (The Thief, Queen of Attolia, King of Attolia.) Aragorn goes through a lot and has amazing [...]

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This week’s Booking Through Thursday, belated:
Who is your favorite female lead character? And why? (And yes, of course, you can name more than one . . . I always have trouble narrowing down these things to one name, why should I force you to?)
Probably a tie, a recent tie, between Rosie from Spindle’s End and [...]

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This week’s Booking Through Thursday:
All other things (like price and storage space) being equal, given a choice in a perfect world, would you rather have paperbacks in your library? Or hardcovers? And why?
For most things I’d say hardbacks, but there is something nice about the flexibility of the paperback novel. I especially like trade paperbacks, [...]

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