Pellinor fans!!! discussion

I stoke the spines too! I like the feel of a book in my hands. In a bookshop I will go the sci-fi/fantasy area and walk along the whole shelve and look at pretty much every book.
I read the blurb on the back, then if i like the look of it I read the first couple of pages just standing in front of the shelves in the book shop. If a book has a map in it I will spend about 10 minutes just looking at the map, for some reason its very important to me that a book has a map.
As for reading position, its been commented up before that I read in the weirdest situations, standing up, sitting down, lying down, its all the same for me just so long as I have a book!
One thing I will say is that when I put them on my own bookshelf they have to be in order of series, within a category and with books of the same height! I hate having a hardback next to a paper back on my shelf....it just looks weird!

yes!! omg it was so bad one time i started speaking all Irish when i read Daughter of the Forest, and then I was talking really posh, really old english after I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! It was very funny apparently (although its not that different to how i speak normally) I actually told someone they were being insufferable! it was so bad because they didn't understand what I meant, at which point i said haven;t you ever read Pride and Prejudice before and they asked me which magazine that was!! I died a little that day!

sorry that was bit off topic...the answer is yes, i do talk differently depending on which books i read. i once got told off by my friend for saying something american after i read the Hunger Games :/

Daughter of the Forest
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

1. "I am a book sniffer ... The smell of paper and coffee is one of the best smells in the world."
I don't sniff books, though I'm aware of the smell of new books, and bookshops and libraries have very distinctive smells. One of the saddest smells is going into old charity shops (thrift stores) where the books smell mildewy. Luckily that kind of pile'emhigh shop is disappearing these days.

2. "I have a habit of stoking the spines of my books..."
No, sorry, don't do this, but I do hate handling books, especially older paperbacks, where the spine has split and the pages are coming unglued.

3. "Do you have any particular stance you take while reading?"
Most of my fiction reading is at bedtime, so the answer to that is "semi-supine"! I tend to read non-fiction, newspapers and magazines at a table though.

4. "blurbs right on their front covers..."
Other than review quotes, I've never seen front cover blurbs before, and hope I never will! Decent jacket design is a big determinant on which edition of a book I buy, though sometimes there is no choice (I liked the adult covers for series like His Dark Materials and the Harry Potter sequence).
"Do you read ... the summary in the jacket flap or on the back cover and then decide whether it's worth a read?" For major publishers the art of blurb- and summary-writing (and the choice of review quotes for the paperback edition) is crucial to sales of real books, and the tone and detail is a major element in deciding my choice of an unfamiliar author or title.

5. "Does anyone else find themselves talking in an accent after they have read a book?"
I'm rubbish at accents so I wouldn't even bother, but I often do hear an author's voice as I read a book if that author is broadcast a lot (e.g. from TV series tie-in). And as far as I know I don't start talking like the characters from a book I've read, let alone a film (although I know I'm not the only one to briefly, and badly, imitate Arnie or Yoda or Gollum).

When buying a book I first try to find a cover that I like the look of, if it's ugly I ten not to buy the book! I then read the book cover or sleeve, if it doesn't have a blurb then I tend not to buy it. If I like the look of the blurb I then usually buy the book.
Main habit when reading a book is continue reading until I finish it or fall asleep!
I also have memorized my book case and can tell if someone has moved a book!!

Becky wrote: "I stoke the spines too! I like the feel of a book in my hands. In a bookshop I will go the sci-fi/fantasy area and walk along the whole shelve and look at pretty much every book.
I read the blurb ..."

I agree with you about maps! I just love being able to visualize the places being traveled through.
And I also love smelling books... which sounds weird but is oddly comforting. There's nothing like the scent of paper and ink.