SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

-Start ONE new topic with your name in the subject line (ex: Lu’s Reviews)
-Be sure to put that topic in the Member Reviews folder
-Whenever you post a new review, either on goodreads or on your blog elsewhere, make a new post in your topic.

This way we can read each others reviews and chat about each others opinions and so on :)

Nice idea Lu!

I like this idea, but I suck at reviewing so I'll just read yours :)

lol

Well I reviewed The Angel Experiment, so I might just post it on a thread of my own, aren't you all so proud of me!!!!

Very Proud!

Ah thanks Lu!!!!!! You all are getting me doing things I've never done before, next I'll be marking phrases in my favorite books! LOL

You should definitely do that! And write notes as well. When I write notes in my books or underline phrases, I understand it better, remember it more easily.

If I want to review a book I also read with a little notebook to jot down quotes/plot/insights/impressions, etc.

Wow ok, see you're getting me doing stuff!!!!
Great advice Lauren :)

Argh... blasphemy! You should never ever write in books, it's the horror of horrors!

Now making notes on bits of paper, that's acceptable.

Well they're my books. I wouldn't write in other people's or the library's. Anyway, to me writing in books (making notes, not just scribbling obviously) shows how much I love them :)

Thats so cute Lauren... I would like to write in my books, but I just cant do it, I write in textbooks all the time, I do it in different colors to, but in a reading book I just cant, dont know why, some kind of problem I have, even if they are my books.

But I agree, it does show your love and interest in the book :)

Well, just write in pencil. Or get post-its that you can stick on the page. I actually think using highlighters and pens in anything but a textbooks is going too far.

If I had an antique book though I'd never write in it.

I love using those small post it notes... I color code all my chapters (like the one's that stick together in a textbook)

Even if they are my own I would never write in them. Reading them till they fall apart, definitely. Writing in them, never!

Guess in my mind books are sacred.

But you'd still read them until they fall apart, as opposed keeping them locked in glass cases and reading them only with the utmost care. To me writing in books is the same as getting them worn through reading. And if it helps me understand or remember the book, and makes re-reads more fulfilling... well that's the kind of thing I'm aiming for with a book.

To me the content is sacred, but the book itself (pages, ink) provide the place where I can have a conversation with the words.

Very well said! Can't fault you on something that works for you and I definitely didn't mean to come across as judgemental (if it seems that way).

Oh no, not at all! I've had this debate a few times, it's quite interesting :)

Oh, I do remember one very bad example of writing in a book. It's an anecdote from another site: this guy bought a second-hand crime novel, but the previous owner had highlighted all the clues and significant phrases revealing who the killer was, with exclamation marks for the most important information. Obviously it completely ruined the book for anyone else who wanted to read it!

I can understand doing that if you're going to study crime writing or something, but then how can you give your book away to be sold?! That's just mean.

Indeed! That's one of the reasons I don't write in my books. You never know how long that book will survive or how many people will have it after you...

I can read in the bath, but I could never, not even with a pencil write in them!

Lu wrote: "I can read in the bath, but I could never, not even with a pencil write in them!"

Ooh, that's another thing I never do. Never read in the bath.

You are missing out!

I'll take your word for it.

I'm with Crusader on this one. Reading in the bath is slightly boring, too delicate, and very soon cold.

Not if you make it hot enough! And its all warm and cozy with bubbles, and nice and quite! Love it

I'm with Crusader here Never ever ever write in any book other than a text book and definitely no reading in the bath. For me the contents as well as the books themselves are sacred... Oh and PLEASE don't make doggy ears.. I will throw a tantrum

Dog-ears are big no-no. Use a bookmark!

Dog ears are a big no no! But the bath... how would I survive without it?

Hmmm I have to go on Lu on this. Love reading in the bath! But NOOO writing for me and NOOOO dog ears!

Yay i'm not alone :)

Love reading in a bath also, but I get all wrinkly when I do. Most of the time though because I read alot of ebooks I dont get the chance to read in the bath.

I do tend to dog ear books, even though I have bookmarks sometimes its just easier.

Lauren wrote: "You should definitely do that! And write notes as well. When I write notes in my books or underline phrases, I understand it better, remember it more easily.

If I want to review a book I also read..."


Just got a Kindle - and it allows you to make notes in the margins - very cool. Wasnt sure I would like it - I love it!

Oh yes, I love that about the Kindle, particularly the fact that you can look at a list of notes and highlights.

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