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1) What author do you own the most books by?
Terry Pratchett, Christopher Penczak, Madeleine L'Engle, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Tamora Pierce
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The Chronicles of Narnia. :) All of them, multiple times over.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
I like prepositions. *pets them*
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Not really in love with, but I grew up wanting to be Lucy Pevensie (From the Chronicles of Narnia) more than anything. I sort of think I did.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
I've read each of the Chronicles of Narnia over thirty times.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
*laughing* See above. ;)
7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
Inkheart.
8) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
I can't stop talking about The Hunger Games to anyone who will listen...I think I read that last summer? I can't remember.
9) If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
Hope for the Flowers.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I'm not sure!
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Wise Child.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
It already has been, much to my sadness--The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe--it destroyed my hopes and expectations utterly, was nothing like I hoped it'd be. But really, nothing COULD live up to that childhood obsession, I think. :) I LIKE the original BBC telling of it, and I LOVE the cartoon version, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the crazy 70s "musical" version. No joke.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I don't think I've ever had weird ones. I've dreamed of Laura Ingalls Wilder before.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
Twilight.
15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
Pilgrim's Progress--they made us read it when we were ten.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
"Love's Labor's Lost--" which I actually like, and which isn't all that obscure. You can't really say ANY of his stuff is all THAT obscure.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Toss up, really.
18) Roth or Updike?
Jenn disagrees stongly (XD love you, honeybee!), but Updike!
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
I LOVE Chaucer to infinity and beyond (and Milton, too, but to a lesser degree), but Shakespeare will always be the man of my heart~ <3
21) Austen or Eliot?
Is it horrible to say that I can't decide? Eliot was the first I read, and I loved her endlessly, but I love Austen so much NOW...I can't decide!
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Hm...I don't really have one? Oh wait--I've never read anything by Hemingway, save for a short story or two. I've just not gotten around to it yet!
23) What is your favorite novel?
That's so hard... A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, the Chronicles of Narnia...I need to stop this list before it gets too long. I don't have a favorite book, I have a favorite shelf. XD
24) Play?
"A Midsummer Night's Dream," followed closely "Twelfth Night" and "Much Ado About Nothing."
25) Poem?
"Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson, "i thank you God for most this amazing" by e.e cummings, "The Stolen Child" by W.B. Yeats, "Night" by Sara Tesdale, "To make a prairie" by Emily Dickinson. Many, many more. A lot of Shakespeare sonnets, too.
26) Essay?
None really stand out to me.
27) Short story?
Many by Neil Gaiman. Most ridiculously well written one that stands out in my mind? "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale."
28) Work of nonfiction?
Many. Anything by Chris Penczak.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Terry Pratchett, Madeleine L'Engle, Tamora Pierce, Neil Gaiman
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Eh. Maybe Meyer.
31) What is your desert island book?
The Seven Year Old Wonderbook by Isabel Wyatt.
32) And… what are you reading right now?
Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Martha N. Beck
Frugal Luxuries: Simple Pleasures to Enhance Your Life and Comfort Your Soul by Tracey McBride
Think and Grow Rich? by Napoleon Hill
Wild Girls: The Path of the Young Goddess by Patricia Monaghan
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Terry Pratchett, Christopher Penczak, Madeleine L'Engle, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Tamora Pierce
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The Chronicles of Narnia. :) All of them, multiple times over.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
I like prepositions. *pets them*
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Not really in love with, but I grew up wanting to be Lucy Pevensie (From the Chronicles of Narnia) more than anything. I sort of think I did.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
I've read each of the Chronicles of Narnia over thirty times.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
*laughing* See above. ;)
7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
Inkheart.
8) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
I can't stop talking about The Hunger Games to anyone who will listen...I think I read that last summer? I can't remember.
9) If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
Hope for the Flowers.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I'm not sure!
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Wise Child.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
It already has been, much to my sadness--The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe--it destroyed my hopes and expectations utterly, was nothing like I hoped it'd be. But really, nothing COULD live up to that childhood obsession, I think. :) I LIKE the original BBC telling of it, and I LOVE the cartoon version, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the crazy 70s "musical" version. No joke.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I don't think I've ever had weird ones. I've dreamed of Laura Ingalls Wilder before.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
Twilight.
15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
Pilgrim's Progress--they made us read it when we were ten.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
"Love's Labor's Lost--" which I actually like, and which isn't all that obscure. You can't really say ANY of his stuff is all THAT obscure.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Toss up, really.
18) Roth or Updike?
Jenn disagrees stongly (XD love you, honeybee!), but Updike!
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
I LOVE Chaucer to infinity and beyond (and Milton, too, but to a lesser degree), but Shakespeare will always be the man of my heart~ <3
21) Austen or Eliot?
Is it horrible to say that I can't decide? Eliot was the first I read, and I loved her endlessly, but I love Austen so much NOW...I can't decide!
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Hm...I don't really have one? Oh wait--I've never read anything by Hemingway, save for a short story or two. I've just not gotten around to it yet!
23) What is your favorite novel?
That's so hard... A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, the Chronicles of Narnia...I need to stop this list before it gets too long. I don't have a favorite book, I have a favorite shelf. XD
24) Play?
"A Midsummer Night's Dream," followed closely "Twelfth Night" and "Much Ado About Nothing."
25) Poem?
"Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson, "i thank you God for most this amazing" by e.e cummings, "The Stolen Child" by W.B. Yeats, "Night" by Sara Tesdale, "To make a prairie" by Emily Dickinson. Many, many more. A lot of Shakespeare sonnets, too.
26) Essay?
None really stand out to me.
27) Short story?
Many by Neil Gaiman. Most ridiculously well written one that stands out in my mind? "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale."
28) Work of nonfiction?
Many. Anything by Chris Penczak.
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Terry Pratchett, Madeleine L'Engle, Tamora Pierce, Neil Gaiman
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Eh. Maybe Meyer.
31) What is your desert island book?
The Seven Year Old Wonderbook by Isabel Wyatt.
32) And… what are you reading right now?
Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Martha N. Beck
Frugal Luxuries: Simple Pleasures to Enhance Your Life and Comfort Your Soul by Tracey McBride
Think and Grow Rich? by Napoleon Hill
Wild Girls: The Path of the Young Goddess by Patricia Monaghan
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente