by request:

As requested by my lovely friend Willie:

• Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback? Trade Paperback all the way. Hardbacks are too expensive and mass markets hurt my hands. They also can't be the kind of trade paperbacks that have a movie cover. I hate that stuff.
• Amazon or brick and mortar? Brick and Mortar. I like to browse and open the books at random to read sections. I know Amazon does that search inside thing, but its just not the same.
• Barnes & Noble or Borders? Psha. Books A Million. Kidding. I actually like Barnes & Noble much better. It has a nicer atmosphere, I think.
• Bookmark or dogear? Dogear all the way. Every book I own deteriorates slowly because I dogear and take them to the beach and read them in the tub. A book isn't a good book unless you can tell its been well loved.
• Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random? Random. I spent too much time alphabetizing at the bookstore. My tiny bookshelf is full of random books, and the rest are scattered about my bed/bathroom.
• Keep, throw away, or sell? Keep. I love rereading books.
• Keep dustjacket or toss it? Ehh. I try to keep it, but I always end up losing them.
• Read with dustjacket or remove it? Remove it. That shits annoying.
• Short story or novel? Novel. Short stories go by way too quickly. I read too fast to be sated by a short story.
• Short story collection (short stories by the same author) or anthology (short stories by a different author? Anthology. The last book of short stories I read, however, was Dubliners by James Joyce and that was just for school, so I can't really be too authoratative.
• Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket? Are you kidding me??? Harry Potter! I read one or two Lemony Snicket books and I hated them. I know they are all children's books, but Lemony Snicket seemed to talk down to people. I hated this: The Baudeliere twins were very apathetic, which here means that they didn't care. Seriously?? Kids can figure out vocabulary from context. Its how you learn.
• Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks? Chapter breaks. I will prop my eyelids open with toothpicks in order to reach a chapter break.
• “It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”? Dark and Stormy night all the way.
• Buy or Borrow? Buy.
• New or used? New, but I love love love the used bookstore downtown.
• Buying choice: book reviews, recommendation or browse? Browse. And reccomendations from friends.
• Tidy ending or cliffhanger? Cliffhanger. Much more interesting.
• Morning reading, afternoon reading or nighttime reading? All the fucking time reading.
• Standalone or series? Standalone, except where Harry Potter is concerned.
• Favorite books read last year? Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
• Favorite books of all time? Dangerous Angels -Francesca Lia Block, Every Harry Potter book ever, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rebecca -Daphne DuMaurier, and of course Bridget Jones' Diary.

In other news, I've started getting spam about puppies. My resolve is weakening. I'm in fear of becoming a victim of identity theft.