Top Ten Tuesday (30)
Top Ten Tuesdays is a meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme instructed participants to choose a past topic.
Top Ten Bookish Confessions
1. I read the summary of A Clash of Kings on Wikipedia in hopes it would convince me the series would start moving faster. It didn’t. My conclusion was that “Jon goes looking for information, but he doesn’t manage to find any in the entire novel. Try Book 3 for results.”
2. I only read Twilight because I thought it would be easier to take three hours and do so, rather than spend the next century listening to people tell me to read it. Now I’m just grateful I can feel legitimate insulting it, since I actually have read it.
3. I saw The Fellowship of the Ring movie before I read any of Tolkien’s books.
4. I have not read any Jane Austen, and I do not feel the need to. I have seen the Pride and Prejudice movies too many times to find the book interesting (I did try!)
5. I do dog ear books if I’m desperate and I borrowed them from the library and they’re beat up anyway….
6. I would turn around in circles and face the east just in case Narnia was real, and one time it would work.
7. I suggested my library order The Princess Curse primarily because I want to read it. This time, the “request a book and we’ll put it on hold for you automatically” thing worked. It’s more annoying when I suggest they purchase a book because I’ve read it and just think they should buy it so other people can read it.
8. I hate bookmarks. I remember where I am in the book and just look for it. (Exception: Bookmarks are useful when one is doing research.)
9. I would love to work in publishing. Hopefully no one will find me insulting their books on this blog and hold it against me. 
10. I became interested in medieval and Anglo-Saxon literature because Tolkien liked it. He was totally on to something!
Posted on 08/28/2012, in Memes and tagged TTT. Bookmark the permalink. 15 Comments.
Do yourself a favor and read Persuasion by Jane Austen! The letter from Captain Wentworth makes it all worth it!
Hopping by to say Hi! Hope you have a chance to read my Bookish Confessions!
I feel as though I should try again! But I’ve just seen all the movies already! And I guess I wasn’t enthralled enough to want to read the books, which is the opposite of what happened with LotR.
Ah, I would SO try getting to Narnia! I’m pretty sure I’ve felt the backs of some cupboards just to check, and I know that when I was a kid, I tried the impossibly-deep-breath-and-slow-exhale trick from No Flying in the House, just on the off chance that I might open my eyes and find my feet off the floor.
Awesome confessions.
There’s just always the chance that it might work! And if not, it’s just because you didn’t believe strongly enough or something, not because it’s not real!
oh no! Dog ears?
The Narnia thing is just adorable… And I suppose I’ll admit to looking in people’s wardrobes to try and find Mr Tumulus when I was little..
Yeah…so far everyone else is confessing that they NEVER dog ear. Maybe I’ll be shunned after this.
I wish I’d had a wardrobe. It sounds so much easier that way, since you just have to walk in and see what happens.
Haha – I’m the same with number two – I can only feel like I can legitimately insult a book if I’ve actually read it! Great Confessions! If you want to check mine out its at http://bookswritingtea.wordpress.com/
Happy Reading!
Laura
I also read Twilight, just so I can bash about it. And I want to read The princess curse, haha.
My top 10 Tuesday.
I really liked The Princess Curse! And I hope my library is getting lots of people checking it out!
Love your honest confessions!
I actually haven’t read any Jane Austen either. I just really can’t force myself to read any classics! I’ve tried and tried, but I just don’t like them. Oh well!
So many classics are so much easier to read when you’re being forced to by a teacher! But there are a lot I really love. I think everyone just needs to find the right type of classic, since they come in so many genres! School tends to make us think that they’re all “classic” so they’re all the same somehow, or all equally good. So not true!
Very good point! I’ve actually read quite a few that I’ve enjoyed, but I’ve had a horribly difficult time reading authors like Jane Austen or Charles Dickens. I think I either need to go way past that era or something more like a modern classic!
Lol, I love your list! Your conclusion for A Clash of Kings was so funny! I haven’t read those books but I’d like to someday… And I’ve seen this on a couple of bloggers’ lists, but how can you just remember where you are in a book? I get SO upset if my bookmark falls out and at that point I CAN remember where I was because I put it back in right away. Otherwise I can’t remember at all where I was if it’s been hours since I last read. I guess if I really had to I could, but that wastes precious reading time and I already have so little time and I’m also such a slow reader!
Great list, Briana!
I actually tried to comment on your Bookish Confessions on Tuesday, but my comment deleted itself and I sort of gave up in despair.
I think the series sounds as if it has a great plot hidden in it somewhere, but it is just SO SLOW! And I don’t consider myself an impatient reader. If I actually watched television, I think the show sounds like a better investment of time.
I sometimes wonder myself how I know where I am; I actually think it’s an interesting question! Usually I have a good idea about how far I am, so I start flipping through pages and just glance about at the text to see if I’ve read that page before or not. It works great about 98% of the time, but I have occasionally read several chapters just to realize I HAD read them before.
I look at rereading the same chapters as a sort of perk for reading without a bookmark, though. I figure if I didn’t remember the chapters, then I must not have read them carefully enough in the first place, so It’s good my lack of memory forced me to go back over them!