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Hardcover or paperback, and why?
I like both, but as I am a poor college student, I will have to pick paperback. They're cheaper, you can bend them, and they just fit so nicely onto a bookshelf. Hardcovers always remind me of textbooks, anyway.
If I were to own a book shop I would call it…
Hmm. I have no idea, actually. I'd like to think that I could come up with some clever name, but I'm drawing a blank right now. I'll come back to this.
My favorite quote from a book (mention the title) is…
Too hard! I tend to love the first lines of novels because they hold so much promise, such as the beginnings of Pride and Prejudice, The Virgin Suicides, and Great Expectations.
The author (alive or dead) I would love to have lunch with would be…
If you know me at all you know the answer to this question is Jane Austen.
If I was going to a deserted island and could only bring one book, except for the SAS survival guide, it would be…
Well I think I would go with something very long that I have yet to read, maybe War and Peace.
I would love someone to invent a bookish gadget that…
Would allow me to read in the shower. I was talking to my roommate about this the older day. Come on inventors, waterproof pages can't be too difficult!
The smell of an old book reminds me of…
My grandma's attic and also the basement where my parents' massive collection of books resides.
If I could be the lead character in a book (mention the title), it would be…
At this juncture in my life, possibly I Capture the Castle's Cassandra.
The most overestimated book of all time is…
Yikes. Well, I do intensely dislike Everything is Illuminated (though it has some very beautiful individual sentences, heh), and it is insanely over-hyped, but mostly I think all books have some merit.
I hate it when a book…
Is released in paperback with a different cover than the hardcover edition, and both are beautiful. I know I don't need two editions of one book, but they're so pretty...
Doing laundry and avoiding work.