Book Survey

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

Jodi Picoult. And the runner-up goes to J.K. Rowling, thanks to the box set I just received for Christmas!

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

The Giver, by Louis Lowry. I think I own three copies, and I’m always trying to peddle them off to people to get them to read it.

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?

I didn’t notice until it was brought up, but now it kind of bothers me.

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

I am going to have to admit my downfall, but yes, Edward Cullen.

5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children?)

The Giver. I can’t even begin to count how many times I’ve read it. That is also the reason I own multiple copies; because I have lost them, bought them in a desperate urge to read it again, and then found them.

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?

I used to read a lot of the Boxcar Children books. I particularly enjoyed “The Case of the Purple Pool”.

7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?

Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov. It was assigned reading and I can’t help but imagine the sounds of my teacher reading parts of it aloud, which made a creepy book sound even creepier.

8 ) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini. So good.

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?

It would depend on whom I am recommending a book to, plus I don’t believe in tagging people.

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?

Well if people like Vladmir Nabokov are the types being nominated, then clearly none of the authors I prefer to read will be in the runnings.

11) What book would you most like to see made into a film?

I think eventually they all will be. I’m currently excited to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.

12) What book would you least like to see made into a film?

Any one that was written purely to be a mass-produced, overly cliché money-maker.

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.

My dreams were so bizarre when I was reading the Harry Potter series, but I can’t remember any one in particular. Severus Snape was always there though.

14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?

I started reading one of the Gossip Girls books. I just couldn’t do it.

15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?

Probably something I was assigned in school, that I have since blocked from my memory.

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?

I’m not edgy enough to have seen an obscure Shakespearean play. Just Hamlet for me.

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?

French, since Nabokov ruined the Russian name.

18) Roth or Updike?

Haven’t read ‘em.

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?

Again, haven’t read ‘em. I told you I’m not edgy.

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?

Milton. Paradise Lost changed my literary views.

21) Austen or Eliot

Eliot. Because, get this- I’ve never read anything by Austen.

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

The fact that I haven’t read (or even been assigned) anything by Austen. Or Bronte or Dickens or any “classic”. How has the public education system failed me so badly? My goal is to make up for that gap, and have a minimum of Pride and Prejudice read this year.

23) What is your favorite novel?

Please, I can’t choose! The Giver, I love Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, Eclipse, Screwtape Letters, The Pact… Anytime I read something new I think it’s my favorite.

24) Play?

The Crucible

25) Poem?

Still I Rise, Maya Angelou. Fire and Ice, Robert Frost (before it was made famous by Eclipse). Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe.

26) Essay?

Hahahaha.

27) Short story?

Hills Like White Elephants! By Ernest Hemingway. Also, Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger. Fall of the House of Usher by Poe.

28) Work of non-fiction?

Not to be cliché myself, but Purpose Driven Life. I think it’s the only nonfiction book that I’ve ever finished.

29) Who is your favorite writer?

I love Hemingway’s writing even if I don’t always love his novels. But J.K. Rowling is amazing. People forget what a great writer she is because her story is so captivating.

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?

Dan Brown.

31) What is your desert island book?

The complete works of Edgar Allan Poe- that way I get the most bang for my buck.

32) And … what are you reading right now?

House Rules by Jodi Picoult.

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