What is World Book and Copyright Day all about? This is a yearly event celebrated every April 23 by UNESCO. It aims to promote and celebrate the love for reading. Yey! Here’s a toast to all the bookworms around the world. Read more about World Book and Copyright Day here.
Books are love. If you love books, answer any or all of the questions below! It would be great to learn from one another. Let’s keep our love for reading flowing.
1. What books are you currently reading?
2. What books are on your to-be-read list?
3. What book/s would you recommend?
4. What book made you fall in love with reading?
5. Do you have a book collection you’re proud of? Tell us about it!
I’d love to know your answers! 
Mine come after the jump.
1. What books are you currently reading?
2. What books are on your to-be-read list?
I have a lot of books in my shelf that I have not yet read. The titles escape me at the moment but I do know there are a lot of them!
3. What book/s would you recommend?
4. What book made you fall in love with reading?
5. Do you have a book collection you’re proud of? Tell us about it!
My sisters and I used to collect Archie comics! We had a huuuuuge collection and they’d be scattered all over the house. Some of them still are! I love seeing a Betty & Veronica Double Digest in the dining room, or a Jughead one squeezed into a corner of the wine cabinet. If we could have an Archie-comics-hunt at home ala an Easter Egg-hunt, it would be a lot of fun!
Hi! I'm Toni Tiu,
and I've been blogging at
at Wifely Steps since 2003. This started as a blog to help newly weds adjust to married life. It has evolved into a home and parenting blog. I write about things close to my heart -- good eats, good reads, family, marriage, and the little things that make everyday happy.
CandyQ
April 23, 2009 at 6:56 pm (15 years ago)I love this, Toni! Will answer the questions on my blog.
And, by the way, the book that made me fall in love with reading was also a Nancy Drew mystery: The Clue of the Leaning Chimney. 😉
CandyQs last blog post..Dream ride
MrsLavendula
April 23, 2009 at 7:39 pm (15 years ago)1. What books are you currently reading?
blink by malcolm gladwell
2. What books are on your to-be-read list?
outliers by gladwell, summer crossing by capote,
3. What book/s would you recommend?
to kill a mockingbird harper lee & orange girl by jostein gardner
4. What book made you fall in love with reading?
like you it was one of the nancy drew mysteries: the hidden staircase =) i got so hooked with nancy drew when i was a kid!
5. Do you have a book collection you’re proud of?
hmm ive been wanting to complete jostein gardner’s novels but i just havent gotten around to doing it.
MrsLavendulas last blog post..Walking Down Memory Lane
Lynn
April 23, 2009 at 7:44 pm (15 years ago)I like this. I’ll do this on my blog too.
Like you, a lot of books are lined up for reading. My collection would be Haruki Murakami books.
Lynns last blog post..Mataas na Gusali
babaylansamaynila
April 23, 2009 at 9:12 pm (15 years ago)1. What books are you currently reading?
Right now, I’m into historical romance novels. I’m currently reading Medieval novels by Julie Garwood (The Prize, Honor’s Splendour, Gentle Warrior, Saving Grace, Ransom, The Secret, and The Bride). History and romance for me is a very interesting and captivating combination!
2. What books are on your to-be-read list?
I have been reading Ian McEwan’s Atonement for months! I couldn’t finish it because I’m having a hard time understanding McEwan’s very extensive vocabulary! Aside from Atonement, the books that are on my to-be-read list is the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon, the Regency novels by Julie Garwood, and the Georgian Period books by Elizabeth Hoyt.
3. What book/s would you recommend?
Since I’m a historical fiction buff, I greatly recommend Anya Seton’s Katherine(Middle Age), The Birth of Venus(Renaissance) by Sarah Dunant, The House of the Spirits(2oth century Chile) by Isabel Allende, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being(Communist Czechoslovakia) by Milan Kundera.
4. What book made you fall in love with reading?
The Harry Potter series made me fall in love reading. I have a very imaginative mind and Harry Potter was the first to provide me an escape to an exciting world!
5. Do you have a book collection you’re proud of? Tell us about it!
Yes, I have a book collection that I’m proud of! It’s not that extensive yet because I just started really collecting a year ago. But I’m proud of it because it shows my interest with history – whether it’s about the Philippines or the World!
yummybite
April 23, 2009 at 10:12 pm (15 years ago)ahmm..is this a meme? wanna do this on my blog later. =) thanks!
JMom
April 23, 2009 at 11:36 pm (15 years ago)Great meme, Toni! I answered on my blog.
Like Babaylansamaynila, I too have been meaning to read the Outlanders series by Diana Gabaldon. I love historical novels and I’ve heard good things about the series.
JMoms last blog post..Celebrate World Book Day!
Tina
April 23, 2009 at 11:48 pm (15 years ago)Ooooh I didn’t know this! I’ll answer here but I’ll also post this on my blog just for kicks. 😛
1. What books are you currently reading?
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Right now I’m reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (FINALLY, after two years of being in my TBR pile), and Time Off for Good Behavior by Lani Diane Rich (ebook
2. What books are on your to-be-read list?
Too many! But after P&P, I’ll finally read City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare, which is a sequel of another book series I started reading last year.
3. What book/s would you recommend?
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen — it’s a YA novel but it’s one of the best ones I’ve read. Also anything by Frank Peretti or Ted Dekker.
4. What book made you fall in love with reading?
I think it was Sweet Valley Kids #35 (haha I still remember the number), The Best Thanksgiving Ever. It was the first Sweet Valley book that my parents got me after I asked them for it. 😀
5. Do you have a book collection you’re proud of? Tell us about it!
One collection I’m proud of is my Sarah Dessen collection…I have 7 out of 8 books, and I’m just waiting for a paperback copy of her eighth.
Tinas last blog post..Keeping the Moon (Sarah Dessen)
J.
April 23, 2009 at 11:58 pm (15 years ago)Hi Toni!
1. What books are you currently reading?
* The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, Peter Reinhart
* Envy, Anna Godbersen
2. What books are on your to-be-read list?
* Handmade Nation, Faythe Levine
* White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
3. What book/s would you recommend?
* Prep, Curtis Sittenfield
* Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
* The Luxe book series, Anna Godbersen
* Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
* The House At Riverton, Kate Morton
* Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
4. What book made you fall in love with reading?
* Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
5. Do you have a book collection you’re proud of? Tell us about it!
* I have an embarrassing number of cookbooks. When I can’t sleep I will pick one at random and read it in bed. I have everything from the Ben & Jerry’s Cookbook (for homemade ice creams and all the cookie/brownie mix-ins) to the Jane Austen Cookbook (actual recipes used during Austen’s time and household). I should stop buying them. It’s a bad compulsion. Haha.
* Call me crazy, but one of my bookish goals is to complete my collection of all the Sweet Dreams books. Remember those from the 80’s? I’ve been slowly finding them on eBay, at library booksales, etc. I’m up to 47! (I think there were over 200.) They were such a part of my growing up that they’re a fun thing to collect, with all those 80’s covers. I heart them.
This post is just in time, btw! This weekend will find me at the LA Times/UCLA Festival of Books. Two full days off bookwormishness.
(http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/index.html)
J.s last blog post..Earth Day Cupcakes
Junnie
April 24, 2009 at 4:05 am (15 years ago)naku. guilty as charged. no books in sight except for the Bible.
Its been all online and magazines for me lately….but this has to change….maybe Amazon Kindle 2 will
Asianmommy
April 24, 2009 at 8:06 am (15 years ago)I’m reading Bound Feet & Western Dress.
I want to read The Piano Teacher.
I recommend The Good Earth.
I fell in love with East of Eden.
Acne Treatments Asia
April 24, 2009 at 11:05 am (15 years ago)Hmm A Natural History of Parenting looks like an interesting read.
MrsLavendula
April 24, 2009 at 11:12 am (15 years ago)hi J! oh my gosh, i do remember ” are you there God its me Margaret” i loved that book too! what a fun blog entry! thanx toni for posting this!
MrsLavendulas last blog post..Walking Down Memory Lane
ayen
April 24, 2009 at 12:42 pm (15 years ago)1. What books are you currently reading?
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (rereading it for the 3rd time)
2. What books are on your to-be-read list?
Jane Austen’s Emma, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter and Cecilia Ahern’s P.S. I love You
3. What book/s would you recommend?
Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith
Like water for Chocolate
4. What book made you fall in love with reading?
textbooks with various short stories given to me when I was a child by my parents
and my first ever Sweet Valley book read “Jessica and the Spelling Bee Contest”
5. Do you have a book collection you’re proud of? Tell us about it!
I have almost the entire books of Sidney Sheldon. I have most books of Jeffrey Archer, Judith McNaught, Paulo Coelho. I tend to buy most books of a particular author.
ayens last blog post..Hearts Day
Tessa
April 24, 2009 at 4:42 pm (15 years ago)1. What books are you currently reading?
NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. What books are on your to-be-read list?
a. Atonement – Ian McEwan (by the way Tones, the movie is also good)
b. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
c. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
3. What book/s would you recommend?
I would like to especially mention “Written on the Body” by Jeanette Winterson. It’s brilliant, the protagonist narrates in a manner na hindi mo mai-determine yung gender niya. That is one of the magic of this novel. Another book would be “CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY” by Joseph M. De Torre, if anyone will ask me what book has such the most lasting influence in my life, this would be it.
Sa Philippine Lit, “Mass” by F. Sionil-Jose and “Sampagitang walang Bango” by Inigo Regalado. I would also like to recommend comic books and graphic novels, I realized that this type of literature shouldn’t be underestimated. Those would be “Batman: the Killing Joke”, “Batman:Year One” and “The Man who Laughs”, also try “Watchmen”.
4. What book/s made you fall in love with reading?
Actually, yung mga mini encyclopedias nung Lola ko, katulad nung “Children’s Treasury of Knowledge”, “ChildCraft” and other encyclopedias too. Doon nagsimula, naaalala ko pa nga na I prefer to read habang naglalaro yung iba kong kapatid. Masaya, kasi kampante ako na okay lang sa kanila na ayaw ko munang maglaro at supportive naman sila.
5. Do you have a book collection you’re proud of?
Well, I am proud of my whole collection. Madami na siya, it is a prominent fixture in my room. Atsaka natutuwa ako na may makakausap ako with the same interests tapos nakakabond ko pa. Ay oo, I’m also proud of my Pugad Baboy Collection. Pati yung mga one-shot niya yung “Polgas: ang Asong Hindi” and “Pirata” kumpleto ako doon, maliban na lang sa Pugad Baboy 16. Pero may mga nawala ng iba atsaka iba napunit. Pero, thankful naman ako na may mabibilhan ka lagi.
Toni, Maraming salamat. Atsaka, thank you din kasi this gave me an opportunity to share about myself.
God bless you always, and this entry helped brighten my day. Thank you!
—->> Tessa
Friendster-Beauties-Dot-Com
April 26, 2009 at 11:33 am (15 years ago)yung libro na tungkol kay Dorian Gray maganda din yun.
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Kay
April 26, 2009 at 1:40 pm (15 years ago)I am a bookworm and proud of it.
1. What books are you currently reading? Lady be good
2. What books are on your to-be-read list? Paulo Coehlo books
3. What book/s would you recommend? Left Behind Series
4. What book made you fall in love with reading? Puppy Love … hehe
5. Do you have a book collection you’re proud of? Tell us about it!
The entire Left Behind Series … its rare and very hard to complete
Kays last blog post..Weekend Reflection # 38
abbee
April 27, 2009 at 8:20 am (15 years ago)Haha, I just posted my lengthy reply to the survey! Cheers! Have a great week ahead!
abbees last blog post..girl, uninterrupted
cpsanti
May 2, 2009 at 10:43 pm (15 years ago)toni! we have a ginormous archie collection too! and nancy drew was the first ever series that sucked me in. hehehe. but i also had my sweet valley phase. hhahhaha!
i’m currently proud of my harry potter collection…its something i’d want my kids to read someday. i still have a lot of books i want to read. but now i’m focusing on trying to finish my novel. heehee. 😉
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cbs
May 3, 2009 at 8:20 pm (15 years ago)– story of edgar sawtelle. currently on p. 26…very slllooowww
– the new granta book of the american short story (edited by richard ford): i got this yesterday and will probably start with a couple of stories tonight.
– disgrace or waiting for the barbarians by jm coetzee come to mind
– short stories on parade, textbook in fourth grade.
– i have an extensive library at home. one section alone – major works of nobel prize winners – is enormous.
cbss last blog post..alang bolahan