Book Tag: Seven Random Book Facts

The rules are:

• Link to the person who tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
• Share seven random and/or weird book facts about yourself.
• Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
• Let each person know that they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

I was tagged by Alice for this meme.

#1 - I have very few hardcovers in my pile (mainly because they are pricey and too heavy to carry around), and whenever I read them I always make sure to remove the jacket covers as I am too afraid of wrinkling them.

#2 - I was a librarian by chance during my secondary school days. At that time, all students had to join a uniform group or a club as part of their extracurricular activities and I was a St. John Ambulance member initially. Later it then dawned on me that those first aids training was too much for me so I joined the school library since coincidentally they have an extra room for another librarian (which of course was a bonus for me since I got the privilege of borrowing an extra book!).

#3 - I try NOT to leave a bookstore empty-handed.

#4 - I remove the price tags from the books after buying. I get annoyed when the tags are extra sticky and leave marks on the books after peeling them off.

#5 - I do judge a book by its cover. Here what I mean is, I will buy the same title with a different cover if it attracts me.

#6 - I received my first ARC from author, Lori Foster when I won a contest at her forum. It is also an unedited copy.

#7 - I only started my book collection during my secondary school days, although I started reading when I was in primary school and was hooked by Nancy Drew and Enid Blyton's books. I was a frequent patron of the school and public libraries then. When my classmate introduced me to the Sweet Dream young adult romances and Dark Forces horror series (printed in the 80s and 90s and written by several individual authors; they are currently out-of-print), I could not get enough of them so that is when I started buying them at the bookstores and used bookstores. Unfortunately I gave them away during the move and now I really regret it. It was also at that time that I began to explore other genres and the book piles just accumulate from there.

I tag the following friends:

• Iliana from Bookgirl's Nightstand
• Stephanie from Stephanie's Confessions of a Book-a-holic
• Shana from Literarily
• Jen from Up Close & Personal with LadyTink
• Trish from Trish's Reading Nook,
• Matt from A Guy's Moleskin Notebook
• Gautami from Reading Room

...and anyone who is keen to play! And please leave me a comment so I can read your answers. :-)