Booking Through Thursday - borrowing books from friends

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme 

in which we answer a question about books or reading.

This week's question:

How do you feel about borrowing books from friends? Is this something you like to do? Does it make you feel uncomfortable or rushed while reading? Does it affect how you feel about the book you’re reading, pressured into liking it?

Well, there are only a few friends I ever borrow books from, and they've never made me feel rushed to give them back..... so much so that after a few months I often wind up returning the book without having read it! My TBR is already pretty huge, so I try not to borrow books from friends unless it's something I'm really anxious to read at that moment, or else I know it'll just sit on my shelf indefinitely. 

I don't think that my friend's opinion of a book pressures or persuades me into liking it, especially considering that my friends typically scoff at the YA titles they see me reading. I'm used to them not liking a lot of the books that I do, so what's one more differing opinion?

Booking Through Thursday #3

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme in which we answer a question about books or reading.

This week's question is: What’s the largest, thickest, heaviest book you ever read? Was it because you had to? For pleasure? For school?

My Answer: I think that the largest book I've ever read was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (which, according to Barnes&Noble is 896 pages -and I had it in hardcover- extra heavy!). It was a for-pleasure read, and was very enjoyable. I love Harry Potter!!

What's the heaviest book you've ever read?

Booking Through Thursday #2 and awesome giveaway

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme in which we answer a bookish question.

This week's question is: What magazines/journals do you read?

 My Answer: I'm totally addicted to Cosmopolitan magazine. I especially love reading the 'embarrassing moments' section! I used to spend approx. 5 bucks every month at the newsstand but I've finally subscribed, and along with the deal, I also got a subscription of Marie Claire magazine, which I don't love as much but its fun to read nonetheless. Also, every now and then I'll pick up one of my moms tabloids (People, Us Weekly, Star... and more, she's addicted!) to look at the Best/Worst dressed section. I love looking at pretty dresses (and making fun of hideous ones, obviously!).

How 'bout you guys? 

Leave your answer in a comment or link to your BTT post =)

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In other news: Jessica at Confessions of a Bookaholic is holding a giveaway. What's the prize, you ask? The ENTIRE collection (14 books!) of The Clique series by Lisi Harrison. How awesome is that?! So go on, hop on over and enter! [click HERE to go to her post] For those of you who aren't yet acquainted with books in The Clique series -- they're very similar to the Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar, so if you like Gossip Girl, you'll probably enjoy The Clique as well.

Booking Through Thursday - Reading Resolutions for 2011

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Booking Through Thursday

Question: Any New Year's reading resolutions?
My Answer: Yep! I've already made a list of a few, and I'm sure I'll come up with more later on in the year =P

• My main goal is to read the handful of books that have been collecting dust on my bookshelf for months ever since I bought them.
• Don't buy any more books until goal #1 is met (I'm not too confident that this is a goal I'll be able to follow lol)
• Re-read the Harry Potter series at some point
• Read more classics (luckily, I got about 45 as free e-books from B&N... now time to read them!)
• More reading, less facebook -- facebook is the ultimate time sucking vortex... and I don't feel like it's well-spent procrastination time. If I'm going to procrastinate (and I will, obviously lol), at least let it be something relaxing and educational instead of a complete waste of time 
• Try to step out of my YA fantasy comfort zone and read more genres (mostly, I'd like to read more non-fiction... I've already got The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot on my TBR list... a step in the right direction!)

Do you have any reading resolutions for 2011? 

Share them here! (or link to your post)