Book meme
Book meme from fionissima and visionsbeyond
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Jane Austen
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
So many, Capt. Wentworth, Mr. Thornton ...
4a) What fictional character would you most like to be?
Anne Elliot
4b) What fictional character do you think most resembles you?
In Austen: Anne Elliot and Elinor Dashwood.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Ooh hard, One of these: The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H. by Robert C. O'Brien.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Probably Narnia. I didn't like to read when I was 10, but I liked to be read to.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Falling Man by Don DeLillo -- I only finished it because it was for my reading group.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
I'll pick 5:
-- Lirael by Garth Nix
-- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
-- The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
-- The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien
-- The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
I have no idea, all my favorite authors are mostly dead.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I'd love to see one of the really good Georgette Heyer novels filmed. Maybe The Grand Sophy, that one just begs to be filmed.
Neither of these will happen and if they ever did get made they'd be very hard to do right:
-- Villette by Charlotte Brontë
-- The later Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Ooh, I don't know? The last two from question 11 would be hard to get right I'd hate to view bad versions of them.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Well I mentioned in another post my dream of a bad Les Mis sequel musical.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
I won't say. There are several that qualify.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
-- The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis. I kept having to re-read it from the beginning every 10 pages, and it's only a 70-page book!
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I guess it would have to be A Comedy of Errors
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
FRENCH!!! Do they even need to ask me this one? I have at least four musicals to act as my soundtrack to it!
18) Roth or Updike?
Haven't read either.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Don't know either.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Oh that's hard but I'd say Shakespeare.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen, but I really should read more Eliot.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Well, I need more Eliot.
23) What is your favorite novel?
So hard but I'll still say Les Misérables.
24) Play?
I'll change this to musical play: Les Misérables.
25) Poem?
I'm not into poetry ... sorry
26) Essay?
Off the top of my head I'll pick two by C.S. Lewis:
-- Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter From Herodotus
-- Meditation in a Toolshed
27) Short story?
None are springing to mind. (OH! WENN quote: "I thought there were springs in your mind, along with a fair amount of lint.")
28) Work of non-fiction?
What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Jane Austen.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
So many! Dan Brown, Stephanie Meyers ...
31) What is your desert island book?
I can never do these. My mood changes; I can't read the same thing every day.
32) And ... what are you reading right now?
-- Away by Amy Bloom -- for my book group
-- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain -- for a county reading project
-- Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case by Garth Nix
-- And I'm about to start Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer for the C19 Heyer group
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Jane Austen
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
So many, Capt. Wentworth, Mr. Thornton ...
4a) What fictional character would you most like to be?
Anne Elliot
4b) What fictional character do you think most resembles you?
In Austen: Anne Elliot and Elinor Dashwood.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Ooh hard, One of these: The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H. by Robert C. O'Brien.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Probably Narnia. I didn't like to read when I was 10, but I liked to be read to.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Falling Man by Don DeLillo -- I only finished it because it was for my reading group.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
I'll pick 5:
-- Lirael by Garth Nix
-- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
-- The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
-- The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien
-- The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
I have no idea, all my favorite authors are mostly dead.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I'd love to see one of the really good Georgette Heyer novels filmed. Maybe The Grand Sophy, that one just begs to be filmed.
Neither of these will happen and if they ever did get made they'd be very hard to do right:
-- Villette by Charlotte Brontë
-- The later Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Ooh, I don't know? The last two from question 11 would be hard to get right I'd hate to view bad versions of them.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Well I mentioned in another post my dream of a bad Les Mis sequel musical.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
I won't say. There are several that qualify.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
-- The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis. I kept having to re-read it from the beginning every 10 pages, and it's only a 70-page book!
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I guess it would have to be A Comedy of Errors
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
FRENCH!!! Do they even need to ask me this one? I have at least four musicals to act as my soundtrack to it!
18) Roth or Updike?
Haven't read either.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Don't know either.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Oh that's hard but I'd say Shakespeare.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen, but I really should read more Eliot.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Well, I need more Eliot.
23) What is your favorite novel?
So hard but I'll still say Les Misérables.
24) Play?
I'll change this to musical play: Les Misérables.
25) Poem?
I'm not into poetry ... sorry
26) Essay?
Off the top of my head I'll pick two by C.S. Lewis:
-- Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter From Herodotus
-- Meditation in a Toolshed
27) Short story?
None are springing to mind. (OH! WENN quote: "I thought there were springs in your mind, along with a fair amount of lint.")
28) Work of non-fiction?
What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Jane Austen.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
So many! Dan Brown, Stephanie Meyers ...
31) What is your desert island book?
I can never do these. My mood changes; I can't read the same thing every day.
32) And ... what are you reading right now?
-- Away by Amy Bloom -- for my book group
-- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain -- for a county reading project
-- Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case by Garth Nix
-- And I'm about to start Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer for the C19 Heyer group