Trying to sound literate again
Book-thieved from mai_shiranui.
1. Book next to your bed right now: The Counterfeit Guest by Rose Melikan - I reached the point where it has started to race toward the end now, and putting it down this morning was something of a feat.
2. Favourite series: The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh - five books and it never turns to rubbish, nor does the author’s voice get predictable and annoying, even if you read them one after another.
3. Favourite book: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
4. The one book you would have with you if got stranded in a desert island: One on survival techniques might prove useful, don’t you think? (“I’m a lonely soldier...”)
5. Book/series you would take with you on a long flight: I’ll risk a new one, about to be released - blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris. I have a feeling it’s going to be awesome.
6. Worst book you were made to read in school: Four Woman Poets was pretty ghastly. The line ‘My mammy bought me out a shop’ will forever haunt my nightmares.
7. Book that everyone should be made to read in school: I’m going to go for something relatively new, but the importance it places on reading and being a decent human being is compelling. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
8. Book that everyone should read, period: Perfume by Patrick Suskind. JUST DO IT! It is clever and gorgeous and macabre and funny and pretty much everything else besides.
9. Favourite character: Miss Marple! She is such a wonderful creation, and there’s nothing I don’t like about her. I want an Aunt Jane.
10. Best villain: Tricky - and this means I can’t mention these books elsewhere. Grr. The Contessa di Lacquer Sforza from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters and The Dark Volume by G.W. Dahlquist. She is one wicked, devious and capable woman.
11. Favourite concept series: If I don’t know exactly what qualifies as one, does that mean I don’t have one?
12. Favourite invented world: Narnia. Nuff said.
13. Most beautifully written book: Right up until the very last page, it could be The Ghost Writer by John Harwood, and then he commits a literary cardinal sin. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay is stunningly atmospheric from beginning to end.
14. Funniest book: Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace. It’s one of those books certain to embarrass you by making you cackle on public transport, but that qualifies as a recommendation.
ETA: The rule - you may not mention any book more than once. A good thing, as some may well have swept the board.
1. Book next to your bed right now: The Counterfeit Guest by Rose Melikan - I reached the point where it has started to race toward the end now, and putting it down this morning was something of a feat.
2. Favourite series: The Mennyms by Sylvia Waugh - five books and it never turns to rubbish, nor does the author’s voice get predictable and annoying, even if you read them one after another.
3. Favourite book: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
4. The one book you would have with you if got stranded in a desert island: One on survival techniques might prove useful, don’t you think? (“I’m a lonely soldier...”)
5. Book/series you would take with you on a long flight: I’ll risk a new one, about to be released - blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris. I have a feeling it’s going to be awesome.
6. Worst book you were made to read in school: Four Woman Poets was pretty ghastly. The line ‘My mammy bought me out a shop’ will forever haunt my nightmares.
7. Book that everyone should be made to read in school: I’m going to go for something relatively new, but the importance it places on reading and being a decent human being is compelling. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
8. Book that everyone should read, period: Perfume by Patrick Suskind. JUST DO IT! It is clever and gorgeous and macabre and funny and pretty much everything else besides.
9. Favourite character: Miss Marple! She is such a wonderful creation, and there’s nothing I don’t like about her. I want an Aunt Jane.
10. Best villain: Tricky - and this means I can’t mention these books elsewhere. Grr. The Contessa di Lacquer Sforza from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters and The Dark Volume by G.W. Dahlquist. She is one wicked, devious and capable woman.
11. Favourite concept series: If I don’t know exactly what qualifies as one, does that mean I don’t have one?
12. Favourite invented world: Narnia. Nuff said.
13. Most beautifully written book: Right up until the very last page, it could be The Ghost Writer by John Harwood, and then he commits a literary cardinal sin. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay is stunningly atmospheric from beginning to end.
14. Funniest book: Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace. It’s one of those books certain to embarrass you by making you cackle on public transport, but that qualifies as a recommendation.
ETA: The rule - you may not mention any book more than once. A good thing, as some may well have swept the board.