Booking Through Thursday

From Booking Through Thursday: Preferences

Which do you prefer? (Quick answers–we’ll do more detail at some later date)

• Reading something frivolous? Or something serious? Serious books and frivolous magazines.
• Paperbacks? Or hardcovers? Hardcovers (unless I'm on a beach...)
• Fiction? Or Nonfiction? Nonfiction
  
• Poetry? Or Prose? Prose
  
• Biographies? Or Autobiographies? Biographies
  
• History? Or Historical Fiction? History
  
• Series? Or Stand-alones? Both
  
• Classics? Or best-sellers? Both
  
• Lurid, fruity prose? Or straight-forward, basic prose? Lurid? Well written prose is best.
  
• Plots? Or Stream-of-Consciousness? Plots
  
• Long books? Or Short? Both
  
• Illustrated? Or Non-illustrated? Both (although in fiction illustrations have the potential to be really awful or change the entire story).
  
• Borrowed? Or Owned? Owned (I love books, I love to revisit books, but I also love libraries...)
  
• New? Or Used? Both
  

(Yes, I know, some of these we’ve touched on before, and some of these we might address in-depth in the future, but for today–just quick answers!)

In keeping with the spirit of quick answers I'll end here. Drop by Booking Through Thursday for more entries.