Pimping SA's Reading Quiz

[heidicullinan]

Every day I read Shelf Awareness, an email newsletter put out by the executive editor of bookselling at Publisher's Weekly. I learn more scanning this daily document than I do any other industry info, and this sucker is free. (And advertising in it isn't so high it's impossible either, though it is high.) Sometimes I read, sometimes I skim, but

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[sanba38]

On your nightstand now:
Favorite book when you were a child: 101 Dalmations
Your top five authors: Qiu Xiaolong, Alexander McCall Smith, Sujata Massey, Tony Hillerman, Dorothy L. Sayers
Favorite book of all time: Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Hazards of Southern Living
Book you've faked reading: It was written in a Sicilian dialect, maybe it was called Night of the Owl
Book you're an evangelist for: Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Book you've bought for the cover: The Red Wind: Makani 'Ula
Book that will changed your life: Around the World with a King
Favorite line from a book: Let me consult my Kindle. "The WInchester House on Edgewood wasn't haunted until we moved into it." My Lobotomy
Book you most want to read again for the first time: Hmmmm...
Earliest book you remember: My folks had this series called My Book House.
Favorite book read to you by your parent: See above.

[mary35]

I have not read American Gods or Cavalier & Clay. I will have to check them out. It's been harder and harder to find something I want to read at the library. I broke down and went to the bookstore yesterday, but that's an expensive habit.

If you try Sedaris, you may want to go with Me Talk Pretty One Day. The first essay hooked me.