You know I love a good meme and now I get to play after Melody tagged me on a non-fiction meme created by Gautami.

• a) What issues/topic interests you most–non-fiction, i.e, cooking, knitting, stitching, there are infinite topics that has nothing to do with novels? Books on bookbinding and paper crafts are my weakness but I’ll read books or magazines on sewing, beading, etc. I find I can be inspired to use a new product, try a different color combination, etc. Aside from craft books I also like books on creativity, travelogues and am slowly getting back into memoirs. There are so many other subjects I’d like to read about such as history, art, ecology, the list goes on.

• b) Would you like to review books concerning those? Sure. I think it would be fun. I have reviewed a couple of memoirs so other non-fiction titles would be great but it bet it would take me longer to get to those than to the fiction books. My non-fiction books are usually saved for later.

• c) Would you like to be paid or do it as interest or hobby? Tell reasons for what ever you choose. I receive quite a few books for review and I always mention that when I post about the books. I think the concept of getting paid is great but I have a feeling the ones who pay would have certain expectations. I have seen several blogs (not book blogs) change after they started accepting revenue. That’s just not me. So for me the ARC is payment enough.

• d) Would you recommend those to your friends and how? If it’s a book I enjoyed of course I would. I’d get them to read my reviews or maybe gift them with the book if I think it’s something they would like.

• e) If you have already done something like this, link it to your post. Well you can take a peek at my “book reviews” to check on my reviews. Like I said, there are a few memoirs but it’s mainly fiction.

• f) Please don’t forget to link back here or whoever tags you. Melody (thank you!)

And to get this meme moving, you have to tag 10 people. I know I’ve seen this one going around already so hopefully I don’t double-tag. Anyway I’m tagging:

Aloi from Aloi Reads
Melissa from Book Nut
Bookie
Tanabata from In Spring it is the Dawn
Maggie from Maggie Reads
Lisa from Pfeiffer Booknotes
Gentle Reader from Shelf Life
Stephanie from Stephanie’s Confessions of a Bookaholic
LK from The Literate Kitten
Andi from Tripping Toward Lucidity

For me Valentine’s Day is not just about celebrating romantic love but also about friendship. I have an amazing group of girlfriends (had lunch with this girl today) and now I have found a lot of kindreds via the book blog world.

So I wish you all a Happy Valentine’s Day and here’s a little poem for you:

I wish I could remember the first day.
First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
If bright or dim the season, it might be
Summer or winter for aught I can say.
So unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was I to see and to foresee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom yet for many a May.
If only I could recollect it! Such
A day of days! I let it come and go
As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow.
It seemed to mean so little, meant so much!
If only now I could recall that touch,
First touch of hand in hand! – Did one but know!

~ The First Day by Christina Rossetti