1. I love to jump into a book without knowing anything about it. It's always a pleasant surprise!
2. My most-read genre is Contemporary, and it's just like my safe zone when it comes to reading... I know, I should get out of it.
3. On the other hand, all kinds of Fantasy bore me. The kind with swords, the kind with monsters; but I recently read the first 2 books of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone series and enjoyed them. It just takes luck to find a Fantasy book that I like.
4. I don't like to read in bed. Mainly because the most comfortable spot to read is too dim and my eyes are already as bad as they can get.
5. I find it easy to read through any noise. Be it in the bus, with all the people talking and the engines, or at work, with my colleagues talking and laughing so damn loud xD
6. When it comes to music while reading, I let my playlist go on shuffle and my focus will only waver if a song that I'm currently loving comes.
7. Whenever I'm reading, I like to put the side of the page on the right between my thumb and forefinger and stroke the paper. It's so nice X_X
8. I hate not having all the books of the series before starting to read it.
9. What makes me a lucky person? The fact that I'm always finding entire trilogies in just one library by luck! In February, I've found the Delirium trilogy, the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, and the Burn for Burn trilogy, all in just one single library each xD
10. When I buy a series, I have to buy them in matching heights, covers, and spines. That's why I prefer buying them all at one shot =D
11. I am the only one in my family who reads. I find it weird to think that there are whole families (in books and real life) who like to read together??? It feels so awkward.
12. I've never bought books online before. Maybe because I don't know how to xD But mostly I just like to go to bookstores, you know?
13. I don't play favourites with authors because I always just read something because I want to, not because of the author =) I do have auto-buy authors though, but I don't call them "favourite authors".
14. I get annoyed when people who don't read at all post pictures of a book that is popular at that period. Aka I hate the local girls when they post pictures on their Instagram of If I Stay or The Fault In Our Stars just to make their feed more "Tumblr".
15. I can spend a long time in a bookstore if I am alone. I'll walk here, walk there, pick up a book, pick up another, put down a book, put down another.......
16. I've never read Harry Potter and used to have the mindset that I will NEVER read them.
17. My childhood wasn't Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, or Lemony Snicket. Instead it was all Enid Blyton and this series called the Boxcar Children.
18. I love to match books with songs. If you look carefully there's always that one song that seemed to have been made for that particular book.
19. I have membership for 3 of the major bookstores in Singapore, which are Popular, Times, and Kinokuniya. Of course, I don't need that membership for Popular anymore when I became a staff there, because staff discount =D
20. I still like physical books the best. Not ever gonna try e-books or audiobooks again, they're just not my thing.
21. The very first book that I reread a few times was Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, and I don't even know why. In fact I bought it just because there was a cat on the cover.
22. I don't read books in my own language aka Malay. I'm not actually very good at it, speaking it only with my grandma and a few customers, and even then I still struggle /: English books it is.
23. I need to read a minimum of 100 pages a day if not I'll feel so unaccomplished =)
25. I have no idea who I'd be without this love for books.
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