A Random Book Tag

I have no idea what this book Tag is called. I had it on my blog but deleted it while I was having a draft clean up.  

I have a habit of putting any posts I have onto my note app on my phone and sometimes forgetting to name the post there. 

1. Choose one word that describes being a reader?

Diverse
I choose diverse because you go from children’s books to adult books, author to author, and genre to genre and every book is different. Even books by the same author have differing storylines and characters. Every character in a book is different. You can go from reading a book by a white person, black, Asian. A book series where you watch the kids grow up, to a series where they don’t age. Every author has different thoughts than other authors, and even themselves.  

2. What is the first book you fell in love with?

As a child I remember reading (or having read to me) The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson. I fell in love with that book. I love all of the Jacqueline Wilson books that I’ve read (i still own quite a lot of her books). It’s about a girl called Andy whose parents have divorced and have new families and she moves between both houses.  

There was a time in my life where I’d only read the Harry Potter books, and when I was about 18, I found two books by Dorothy Koomson. I wasn’t intentionally looking for a book by her. They were on sale and I picked them up. But as a teen/young adult my tastes in books were changing. I fell in love with her books.  

So each stage of my life, a child, teenager and an adult there have been books that have made me fall in love with reading. 

3. Hardback or paperback?

I don’t have any preference. Because I hardly use my main chain book store, and use thrift stores more, most books are the same price even if they are hardback or paper back. For instance, one of my Nicholas Sparks book if I got it regular price at the book store was $28 for hardback. Where o got it for $2, though it was on sale at the time and normally would have been $4. So if a book is hardback or paper back. I’m ok. 

4. How has reading shaped your identity?

I don’t think it’s shaped my identity in any way. It’s just a part of who I am. I’ve never been one of those people who carry a book around with me all the time, and they’re has been times where I’ve just abandoned reading altogether. Also there is so much more to me than reading.  

5. What book do you read when you need to be comforted?

Anything by Dorothy Koomson. I haven’t read all her books, but those I have I could read again and again with no problem. 

6. Who taught you how to be a reader?

Like anybody it was more than likely my parents.  

7. Describe your dream reading lounge?

A large room where I have all the books that I want to read, all my started series are complete, where I’ve got all the books by the authors I already own, 

8. What book changed the way you act or see the world?

My Best Friends Girl and The Brighton Mermaid, both by Dorothy Koomson. Both involve racism, and both very different ways and situations but racism none the less. I’m someone who dislikes racism. Even if it’s made as a joke. Racism is racism. 

What Dorothy Koomson did in the two books is make me feel uncomfortable with the situations that the characters were in. I know that racism happens anywhere and at anytime but as a white woman I was still uncomfortable with how other white people acted towards people of colour.