I wasn’t planning on doing another book tag any time soon, but I’m trying to finish at least the first two seasons of Criminal Minds by November 1st while plotting on my NaNo fanfic, so I figured I can be forgiven for doing an easy post for today.
I saw this tag up on Youtuber a couple days ago, heard the first few questions, and decided that this one would be fun to do.
I hope you like it!
- Have you ever regifted a book you have been given? Yes, though I make sure that they aren’t in the same friend circle, and that the book isn’t personalized. My reasoning has always been that I want people to enjoy literature, and if someone expresses the want to read a book that I’ve loved, I want them to have a copy of it. Plus, I have had the worst luck at libraries all my life (stories for another time), and so have my friends. Personal libraries are the way to go.
- Have you ever said you’ve read a book when you haven’t? Absolutely. There was a few years where I collected books, but didn’t read them. Instead, I just said I did to get people off my back. I haven’t done it this year. Honestly, I’ve been vocal about how much I haven’t been reading. But yeah, I’ve lied about it before.
- Have you ever borrowed a book and not returned it? Yes, but I did try. I borrowed a book from a friend, and literally the next day we had a massive falling out. I tried to return the book, but a family member of her demanded I leave their property before I got out of my car with the damn thing. So, I ended up donating it (ended up not liking the book anyway). For the record, we never reconciled, and I don’t even know what she goes by on social media anymore even if I wanted to, which I don’t really.
- Have you ever read a series out of order? Totally by accident, but yes! I read Broken by Kelley Armstrong for a group project in eleventh grade. It was the only “adult” book that my group would agree on, and that Borders had four copies of (well, two at Borders, two at Waldenbooks). I didn’t know until I was about a quarter of the way through that it was book FIVE of the series, which had just released its eighth book at the time. I ended up having to read five books in three weeks just so that we could do the project right.
- Have you ever spoiled a book for someone? Yes. For the most part, I’ve done it unintentionally. Once I accidently spoiled a tiny part of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince to my mom, but I honestly thought she had passed that part. Whoops. But I did spoil… something, honestly I can’t remember what, to an exfriend, when she was doing her best to get a rise out of me. I did kinda regret it, but nowadays I just do my best to not open my mouth about such things.
- Have I ever dogeared a book? Yes. I was a young reader, and I wasn’t trusted with paper scraps in elementary school. But honestly, if it’s my personal copy, I don’t particularly mind. But I try not to if I have the dust jacket or a bookmark handy.
- Have you ever told someone you don’t a book when you do? Yep. I did that with the Twilight series back when that was popular to hate on. Nowadays I just don’t care. I’d rather say I do, because at this point, people ask me so that they can by me books for my birthday/Christmas. Don’t really want more duplicate copies.
- Have you ever told someone you haven’t read a book when you actually have? Yes. I’m not really proud of it, but yes. I told someone I hadn’t read the Percy Jackson series, because I didn’t want to hear them talk about it. I have. Heck I own most of the books. But I just wasn’t in the mood. I did fess up later, got kicked for it, and now we have wonderful text conversations about it. Spoilers, it’s my 11 year old cousin.
- Have you ever skipped a chapter or section of a book? Actually, yes. I skipped most of back third of one of the biggest releases of 2020, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. By two thirds in, I was absolutely done with the book. I’ll also totally admit I’m skimming parts of Far From the Madding Crowd, but that’s because wrapping my head around 1870s English drives me mad sometimes.
- Have you ever badmouthed a book that you honestly liked? Putting my massive issues with the Harry Potter series aside, no not really. I try to be honest with my opinions of books, without being overly hard. (Though, there are some exceptions to the rule.) I don’t think I’ve trashed a book that I actually like, unless I’ve done it in jest.
And that’s it! Just a short tag today, but like I said, I’m trying to blast through two seasons of a show that I honestly haven’t watched in ten years. (I’m totally picking my way through. I’m not watching every episode, I’m not completely certifiable. Yet.)
Let’s see what tomorrow brings.
Until next time!
