This week’s Musing Monday asks:
What do you do with the book before you start reading it?
It would never have occurred to me that this is a question – my answer is “open front cover, flip past all the copyright and acknowledgements and introduction to where the story starts, and start reading.
I *never* read an introduction before I read the book as there are often spoilers hiding in there. In fact, if I already own the book, I rarely even read the blurb for fear of spoilers! If it’s on the shelf, it’s to be read, so just start…
Yeah, I usually don’t read intros either.
http://carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com/2012/05/musing-mondays_21.html
I’m the same, don’t read Introductions or the blurb on the back. Once I had a book that described (on the back) about HALF of the story in the book – luckily I only found out after I finished the book, but that would be too much information for me!
When I worked in book publishing I always checked the copyright page and title pages first. I’m not quite so obsessed now but I do check for any author’s note or opening quote before I get stuck in. I save introductions for afterward, if I read them at all.
I read the copyright and often the blurb on the back of the book. Sometimes I’ll look for the author information. But I generally dive right in.
I go back and read the intro after read the book but only if it is by a writer I like or a scholar on the subject ,All the best stu