{"id":7130,"date":"2022-07-21T02:08:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T02:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/?p=7130"},"modified":"2022-07-23T02:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T02:16:08","slug":"discover-new-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/books-we-read\/discover-new-things\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Read: Discovering New Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Books We Read Blog is conducting a series of interviews with contributors and friends of the blog to get a snapshot of our reading habits<\/a>: the things we like to read, the circumstances in which we read, and more.<\/p>\n

Becky Diamond<\/a> is the Business Librarian at New Brunswick Libraries from the Carr Library on the Livingston Campus. She is an accomplished food writer, the author of Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story of America\u2019s First Cooking School<\/a> and The Thousand Dollar Dinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"What kinds of books do you like to read?
\n<\/strong>Non-fiction (cooking, science, travel\/geography, history), historical fiction, science fiction, memoirs.<\/p>\n

Do you have format preferences (print, ebook, audiobook, abridged, original language\/translated, etc.)?
\n<\/strong>Print (I’m old school lol).<\/p>\n

How do you find new books to read? <\/strong>
\nI do book reviews for BookPage<\/a>; reading other folks’ reviews in BookPage, Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>, NY Times, etc. Also what my friends are reading\u2013\u2013either hearing about them directly from them or via Goodreads.<\/p>\n

Where and when do you read? Outdoors or indoors? At home or out and about? Mornings, evenings, or just before bed?<\/strong>
\nAt night before bed. Occasionally a weekend afternoon. Also when the weather is nice, I love reading outside, especially in the evenings before or after dinner.<\/p>\n

Do you use any libraries or library resources for non-required reading?
\n<\/strong>Yes, my local public library and Rutgers library. If they don’t have what I want\/need I try to get via ILL.<\/p>\n

What do you get out of your non-required reading?
\n<\/strong>I like learning about new things and being entertained.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What are you currently reading, or what have you read and enjoyed most recently?
\n<\/strong>The World As We Knew It<\/em><\/a> by Amy Brady; American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way<\/em><\/a> by Paul Freedman; What on Earth Evolved?: 100 Species that Changed the World<\/em><\/a> by Christopher Lloyd.<\/p>\n

Recommend a book in one sentence that you think everyone should read:<\/strong>
\nI think everyone, especially children, should read The Long Winter<\/em><\/a> (really the whole Little House series<\/a>) to see how folks lived and struggled on the American frontier and the many things we take for granted.<\/p>\n

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