Meme

Jun 08, 2009 22:00

1) What author do you own the most books by?

Jane Austen, Elizabeth Chadwick, Michael Crichton and John Grisham. I guess it's between those four.

2) What book do you own the most copies of?

None.

3) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?

Secretly? I'm pretty mouthy about fictional characters I love but one of my most favourite that I don't get to talk about a lot is Eomer from LOTR. I also adore Rhett Butler from Gone With The Wind. And Darcy.

4) What book have you read more than any other?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Crummy Mummy by Ann Fine.

5) What was your favorite book when you were 10-years-old?

The Runaways by Ruth Thomas.

6) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?

Something awful by Judith McNaught. I can't even remember the name of the book. All I know is that I couldn't finish it. I just couldn't take any more flowery discription of the guys charm and looks and intelligence. If he was real, I would have stabbed hin through his perfect eye by the time I got to the third chapter.

7) What is the best book you've read in the past year?

By year, from 2009, right? Timeline by Michael Crichton.

8) If you could tell everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman.

9) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?

Hard Times by Charles Dicken. I had to read it in school and it put me off his books for years.

10) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?

Russian. Tolstoy in particular.

11) Shakespeare, Milton or Chaucer?

Shakespeare.

12) Austen Or Eliot?

Jane Austen. I will always choose her over pretty much anybody.

13) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?

Fantasy fiction.

14) What is your favorite novel?

Pride and Prejudice or LOTR. Or maybe Gone With The Wind or Here be Dragons or Captain Corelli's Mandolin or...(this one's hard)

15) Play?

They're not really my thing and I've only read Shakespear's so I think, The Taming Of the Shrew.

16) Poem?

Anything by Robert Burns and William Blake.

17) Essay?

I don't really read any.

18) Short story?

Archers stuff is good but I've never read anything that's stuck with me.

19) Non-fiction?

The Sceptred Isle

20) Graphic novel?

I don't really read any.

21) Memoir?

And again, nope.

22) History?

I wouldn't know where to begin as this is one of my favourite genres. Anthing by Elizabeth Chadwick, Phillapa Gregory, Here be Dragons by Sharon K Penman, Colleen McCullough's Rome series...

23) Mystery or noir?

Run by Jeff Abbot

24) Science fiction?

Lord Of The Rings.

25) Who is your favorite writer?

J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, Michael Crichton, Elizabeth Chadwick, Barbra Erskine, Phillapa Gregory, Tolstoy, Anya Seton, Libba Bray, Oscar Wilde and LJ Smith amongst others.

26) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?

Stephanie Meyer.

27) What are you reading right now?

Next by Michael Crichton.

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