Fully Booked | Somewhat Autobiographical Book Tag (plus a sneaky bookshelf tour) @FullyBookedMelissa | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
Happy #TagTuesday !
What books define your life?

Book Time With Elvis (original):
🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=HUj3mZOgREQ&t=226s
Bookish (Brian):
🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=d_kc3iYiC5U

The Tag:
1. What was the number one best selling book (fiction and/or nonfiction) on the day you were born? Have you read them?
2. What are some books (series or stand alone) that immediately spring to mind when you think of your childhood
3. School days are the best days of your life apparently but there you were forced to read some books you maybe wouldn't have chosen for yourself which did you enjoy?
4. Were you independent or part of a pack at school, did you join in the reading fads of the day or do your own thing?
5. As you moved into your turbulent teens can you remember your first experience encountering sex in a book?
6. What were some of the first kinds of nonfiction you encountered?
7. Who's bookshelf was more fun to raid, mum's or dad's?
8. How diverse is your library? ***(see below)
9. What types of books do you find difficult to discuss?
10. In what way do your life experiences and emotions shape your choice of reading?
11. In much the same way as our taste for food changes so perhaps does our taste in books, how would you say your own reading tastes have evolved over the decades?
12. Unfortunately we all feel down at certain times have you got a go to book to raise you back up?
13. If you have to choose one book or author to "represent" each decade of your life who or what would they be?(The books should be ones you read in that decade not necessarily published in that decade).
14. Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinions but how do you feel when people say reading is boring? And what would you say in defence of reading?
15. What was the number one selling book on the day of your most recent birthday (fiction and/or nonfiction) Have you read them?

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Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Arts & Photography
Biography
Business, Finance & Law
Calendars, Diaries & Annuals
Children's Books
Comics & Graphic Novels
Computing & Internet
Crafts, Hobbies & Home
Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Education Studies & Teaching
Erotica
Fiction
Food & Drink
Foreign Language Study & Reference
Health, Family & Lifestyle
History
Horror
Humour
LGBTQ+ Books
Mind, Body & Spirit
Music, Stage & Screen
Poetry, Drama & Criticism
Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences
Reference
Religion & Spirituality
Romance
School Books
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Science, Nature & Math
Scientific, Technical & Medical
Sports, Hobbies & Games
Travel & Holiday
University Textbooks
Young Adult


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