2013 - Remember when...?

Everywhere I go, every blogger I read seems to be doing a 2013 retrospective. 

I've never really seen the point, as I love all the books I read - in different ways and for different reasons, otherwise I wouldn't have read them (especially now that I employ the "stop reading if I'm not enjoying it" policy.) 

But Nancy at Ipsofactodotme has a different take on the whole "remember when" post.

Take the first line from the first post of each month of 2013 to see what it reveals about your reading & blogging habits.

January - "I've struggled with this book." (A Moveable Feast)

February - "I came across this Huffington Post article called 16 Fiction Book Characters Myers-Briggs Personality Types." 

March - "I'm stuck. I've been trying to track down an old picture book that I loved to read during my preschool teaching days."

April - "This was my book for the Classic Club Spin. And what a lovely choice it turned out to be." (The Magnificent Ambersons)

May - "Wondrous Words Wednesday is a lovely meme hosted by Bermuda Onion each week to highlight new (to us) words that we come across in our daily reading."

June - "I went to many events at the recent Sydney Writers Festival, but my favourite was the Pride and Prejudice lovefest on Sunday morning."

July - "My rereading of Tess for the Classic Club Spin (after about 20 years) was a curious thing." (Tess of the D'Urbervilles)

August - "Another month another readalong. I seem to be a little obssessed with readalongs and the classics right now! That's a good thing right?"

September - "I'm a little excited. This month over at The Classics Club they have selected my question for the September meme."

October - "My Cousin Rachel was my lucky number #4 for the latest Classics Club Spin." 

November - "I've been building up a healthy pile of Aussie books for AusReading Month (see yesterday's master post below) which I already know is Mount Impossible, but I'd rather have too many books on hand than not enough!" 

December - "I've had a great time putting together AusReading Month and I've been thrilled by the number of participants for this inaugural event."

Two things really - I obviously LOVE the Classics Club in a slightly embarrassing way and two - I participate in more readalongs and book events than I thought I did!

I wonder what 2014 will reveal?

P.S. This is my 400th post - wahoo!

M is for Myers-Briggs Literary Characters

I came across this Huffington Post article called 16 Fiction Book Characters Myers-Briggs Personality Types.

And I knew I had to try it out.

First I had to retake the Myers-Briggs test (link for test provided in the article).

I've taken the test several times over the years.

I'm usually an INFJ, but tonight when I retook the test I was an INTJ (each time the percentage hovers around 10% which means I'm only a 'slight' F or T depending on the mood of the day! It could also be the length and complexity of the test - the INFJ results come out on the longer tests.)

So tonight I'm .......Pride and Prejudice!

If I was in the INFJ mode I would be ....Little Women!

Both could easily be me. The Protector and the Strategist. Rational and Idealistic. Principled and Efficient.

The colour test was interesting (link also in article).

I haven't done one like that before and I'm curious how they made the link between colour, the sequence and what that might say about your personality!

I can see an introspective, research kind of weekend coming my way!!

Have you done your Myers-Briggs personality test lately?
What are you?
Does yours change slightly over time or each time?

This post has also been linked to Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday 'M is for Myers-Briggs' meme.