the book meme.
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
I keep all my books 'cause I'm totally jealous of them... so I guess my childhood books. It's probably this huge children stories collection that was my mom's and I used to play around with them even when I couldn't read.
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you'll read next?
Last one: East of Eden, current On the road and I really don't know which will be next.
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Books by Meg Cabot. IDK, I kinda like but I just don't love them - not even in the ''hey, it's a fun book'' way. The mediator series are pretty fun, tho.
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't?
I've been planning to read Les Miserables since forever, lol
5. Which book are you saving for "retirement"?
Ulysses by James Joice, lol
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
I always read it, can't help mysef.
7. Acknowledgments: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
That depends... when it's interesting information, yes.
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
It's silly but Bella from the Twilight Saga. I can't help being an Edward fangirl.
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
My favorite book is the same as my mom's, so there you go... we're both insane about Wuthering Heights.
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
The other day I bought a book on a online secondhand books store and got two books for free, just like that. They sent me as a gift. I thought it was so magical lol
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
I'm known as the friends that only gives books, so yeah.
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
I have no idea but I always carry what I'm reading at the moment with me, so.
13. Any "required reading" you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
I wasn't a big fan of Guimaraes Rosa and I'm hoping to get into his work in college.
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Old letters.
15. Used or brand new?
Depends. Some used books are waaay superior in quality so... it all comes down to what edition is the best one.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
Not my cup of tea.
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
Hmmm, I guess so. Dan Brown sucks but his books are the material source of nice movies.
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
Well recently I had a bad experience with The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
I couldn't find out the name in english but it was "O cristo recrucificado" by Nikos Kazantzakis. I actually gave up on that book but it made me crave for olives the whole time.
20. Who is the person whose book advice you'll always take?
My best friend's and my mom's and some of my professors at college.