Book Memes are my favourite...
1) Which author do you own the most books by? Pterry or Tamora Pierce, I think And possibly Madeline L'Engel, but I'm not sure as I loaned them out so cannot count.
2) What book do you own the most copies of? Various things by Jane Austen, as I collect them when I find a pretty one.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? A bit, yes, although I am growing increasingly hardened to the abuses heaped upon the English language.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with? Secret? None of my fictional loves are secret!
5) What book have you read the most times in your life? Not sure. I've reread all of Austen about ten million times, I try to reread Tammy every time a new one comes out, and I used to reread all the Arthur Ransome books about once every summer. Oh, and Dodi Smith's I Capture the Castle.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old? I had far too many.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year? I'm not sure I've read any in the past year that inspired my utter loathing. A few meh ones whose titles I cannot recall.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? Out of ones that are not rereads...Graceling - Kristin Cashore, The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly, The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen, The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? I couldn't pick just one! But... Persuasion or The Picture of Dorian Gray
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature? Someone talented but obscure who would not otherwise be read.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie? I'd really love to see a watchable version of Persuasion-I think it has the potential to be highly cinematic.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie? I'd say any of Stephenie Meyers's books, but the first one was so hilariously bad that it cannot be regretted.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character. I once dreamed that I was Harrietta Potter and the badger from Tamora Pierce's Immortals quartet came to take me to Hogwarts...
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult? Twilight
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? Canterbury Tales, in the original Middle English. The General Prologue was hell, but it wasn't too bad once I got into it. And totally worth it.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? I think I saw Richard II once...
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? Generally the French, although I'm enjoying The Master and Margarita, so my mind is open ot change.
18) Roth or Updike? Meh.
9) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers? Both are pretty fab, although When You Are Engulfed in Flames had me laughing until I cried...
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer? I could never choose!
21) Austen or Eliot? Austen all the way
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading? Anything Roman... And anything written by white American men.
23) What is your favorite novel? I could never choose!
24) Play? I'm going to be incredibly unoriginal and say Hamlet. Or maybe As You Like It. Or possibly Antony and Cleopatra...
25) Poem? Hmmm... The Privilege of Being - Robert Hass, or maybe The Cinnamon Peeler's Wife - Michael Ondaatje, or anything by the Earl of Rochester
26) Essay? Politics and the English Language
27) Short story? Eveline - James Joyce, or any by Neil Gaiman (although I am inordinately fond of "We Can Get That For You Wholesale," "Snow Glass Apples," and "How to Talk to Girls at Parties")
28) Work of nonfiction? Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje, Claire Tomalin's Jane Austen: a life, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble
29) Who is your favorite writer? Don't ask me to choose!
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today? I haven't read any lately, although I can think of plenty of underrated
31) What is your desert island book? One that never ends. Or possibly a survival manual.
32) And...what are you reading right now? Girls of Riyadh, Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope, Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey, Story of a Modern Woman - Ella Hepworth-Dixon
Oh, and because no one ever asks this question, EVER, because we're all too boy-obsessed, I tack it on:
33) Who is your favourite female character of all time? Elizabeth Bennet. Although there are many others of whom I am very fond.
And she's actually my generally favourite character ever, too.
2) What book do you own the most copies of? Various things by Jane Austen, as I collect them when I find a pretty one.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? A bit, yes, although I am growing increasingly hardened to the abuses heaped upon the English language.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with? Secret? None of my fictional loves are secret!
5) What book have you read the most times in your life? Not sure. I've reread all of Austen about ten million times, I try to reread Tammy every time a new one comes out, and I used to reread all the Arthur Ransome books about once every summer. Oh, and Dodi Smith's I Capture the Castle.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old? I had far too many.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year? I'm not sure I've read any in the past year that inspired my utter loathing. A few meh ones whose titles I cannot recall.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? Out of ones that are not rereads...Graceling - Kristin Cashore, The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly, The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen, The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? I couldn't pick just one! But... Persuasion or The Picture of Dorian Gray
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature? Someone talented but obscure who would not otherwise be read.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie? I'd really love to see a watchable version of Persuasion-I think it has the potential to be highly cinematic.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie? I'd say any of Stephenie Meyers's books, but the first one was so hilariously bad that it cannot be regretted.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character. I once dreamed that I was Harrietta Potter and the badger from Tamora Pierce's Immortals quartet came to take me to Hogwarts...
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult? Twilight
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? Canterbury Tales, in the original Middle English. The General Prologue was hell, but it wasn't too bad once I got into it. And totally worth it.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? I think I saw Richard II once...
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? Generally the French, although I'm enjoying The Master and Margarita, so my mind is open ot change.
18) Roth or Updike? Meh.
9) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers? Both are pretty fab, although When You Are Engulfed in Flames had me laughing until I cried...
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer? I could never choose!
21) Austen or Eliot? Austen all the way
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading? Anything Roman... And anything written by white American men.
23) What is your favorite novel? I could never choose!
24) Play? I'm going to be incredibly unoriginal and say Hamlet. Or maybe As You Like It. Or possibly Antony and Cleopatra...
25) Poem? Hmmm... The Privilege of Being - Robert Hass, or maybe The Cinnamon Peeler's Wife - Michael Ondaatje, or anything by the Earl of Rochester
26) Essay? Politics and the English Language
27) Short story? Eveline - James Joyce, or any by Neil Gaiman (although I am inordinately fond of "We Can Get That For You Wholesale," "Snow Glass Apples," and "How to Talk to Girls at Parties")
28) Work of nonfiction? Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje, Claire Tomalin's Jane Austen: a life, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble
29) Who is your favorite writer? Don't ask me to choose!
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today? I haven't read any lately, although I can think of plenty of underrated
31) What is your desert island book? One that never ends. Or possibly a survival manual.
32) And...what are you reading right now? Girls of Riyadh, Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope, Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey, Story of a Modern Woman - Ella Hepworth-Dixon
Oh, and because no one ever asks this question, EVER, because we're all too boy-obsessed, I tack it on:
33) Who is your favourite female character of all time? Elizabeth Bennet. Although there are many others of whom I am very fond.
And she's actually my generally favourite character ever, too.