Listen / with the night falling
1. What author do you own the most books by?
Hemingway probably. Or WCW.
2. What book do you own the most copies of?
This Side of Paradise. I just discovered this while cleaning my room.
3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No. It probably should, but I really could care less.
4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Mr. Darcy, Jem
5. What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Franny and Zooey.
6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Boxcar Children series or one of the Babysitters Club books. I read everyone one of those books when I was ten.
7. What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
I’d say the first Twilight book, but I didn’t make it past the first chapter.
8. What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
I’ve been rereading a lot of my favorites and am just now getting into newer stuff. I don’t think there’s a “best book.”
9. If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
A Light in August
10. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Can I have a guarantee that it’ll be made into a good movie. They tend to rob books of the best parts. One of the nuns just lent me Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. It might be a good movie-if they don’t cut anything out.
11. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
ask again later.
12. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
When I was writing my capstone, I dreamt that WCW and I were swinging at my elementary school playground and he kept daring me to jump off.
13. What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
Danielle Steel trash while sitting in a doctor’s office.
14. What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
Difficult? When I first started reading The Sound and the Fury, I didn’t realize that each section was divided up by who was speaking. That caused some major confusion. As for difficult, maybe something by Shakespeare in hs. I had trouble wrapping my mind around his writing. There was probably something in college that I’ve blacked out because it was horrible.
15. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
I’m not a huge Shakespeare fan.
16. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Russians.
17. Roth or Updike?
can’t say that I’ve read anything by either of them.
18. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
eh.
19. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare. I loathe the other 2.
20. Austen or Eliot?
Austen, but Eliot does hold a special place in my heart.
21. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Lord of the Rings. I’ve never read them and always pretend that I have. I could care less. Or the fact that I made it through college as an English major and the only Shakespeare I read in 4 years were a handful of sonnets in 240.
22. What is your favorite novel?
To Kill a Mockingbird.
23. Play?
The Pillowman, Doubt, or Betrayal.
24. Poem?
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock or Thanks by WS Merwin
25. Essay?
???
26. Work of nonfiction?
This Boy’s Life, The Irresistible Revolution, Left to Tell, etc. I am a non fiction fan.
27. Who is your favorite writer?
It changes from time to time depending on my mood. Constants have been Hemingway, Salinger, & Faulkner.
28. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
the lady who wrote the twilight books.
29. What is your desert island book?
Norton Anthology of American lit. It’s got a little bit of everything, plus it’s heavy enough to kill someone with.
30. And… what are you reading right now?
Just finished Plain Truth last night.
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