Our blog has been tagged by four bloggers on a Q&A about Reading and books.
Ah, books ... Just about the only thing I can go on and on about.
Here are the lovely people who’ve tagged us:
Barbara of March House Books Blog
Ellen of Confessions of Character
Taurean Watkins of Talking Animal Addicts
Jess & Stephanie of The Secret DMS Files of Fairday Morrow
{Thanks, guys!}
They have each given me eleven questions to answer, but as I can’t answer 44 questions (just as I assume most readers won’t have the patience to read 44 sets of answers), I’ve selected few from each blogger to make up my own eleven.
Here are the rules of the game (of which I'm afraid I'll have to break in the end):
1. You must post the rules!
2. Answer the questions and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you’ve tagged.
3. Tag eleven people and link to them.
4. Let them know you’ve tagged them.
Off we go:
1) What new books are you most excited to read this year?
I’m looking forward to reading ‘The Wild Things;’ ‘The Book Thief;’ ‘The Year The Swallows Came Early;’ and ‘The Night Circus.’ Also, I want to read at least one Ray Bradbury novel and one Joyce Carol Oates novel/short story collection. (These two authors are on my yearly to-read list.)
2) If money were not an issue, what present would you give yourself?
I would get myself a rustic house by the sea, with a library and a place beside to have coffee with friends/family.
3) Who is your favourite literary character of all time?
Peter Lake (from Mark Helprin’s ‘Winter’s Tale’)
{And of course, on quirkier days, it's Bertie Wooster from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves series. Bertie, that hilarious worm, always in trouble because of his buddies!}
4) Physical books, E-books or audio books?
I read physical books, though I’m curious about e-books, too. (With the exceptional pricing, I can read MORE books this way.) I listened to an audio book once (Joan Aiken’s ‘The Wolves of Willoughby Chase’) and I found it difficult to concentrate on the story.
5) If you could only read one book for the rest of your life, what would it be? And why?
Still Mark Helprin’s ‘Winter’s Tale’ because I first read it at a dour point of my life and it breathed a wintry gust of magic into it. (Why, why, why could I only read ONE book?)
6) Have you ever met your favorite author?
Nope. Don’t think I’d be able to speak or breathe right if I do. I'd love to peep from afar though ...
7) Classic or Modern Novels?
Both. I love modern novels (adult and children’s) and I do like to break my reading flow with a classic. The first classic I picked up without being required to read it for class is ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.’ I do enjoy reading Dickens, too. (Barnaby Rudge, anyone?)
8) Book Groups or Solitary Reading?
Solitary.
9) When did you start blogging?
2011. I was really hesitant because I’ve never been the type to ramble my thoughts on anything to anyone.
10) Where do you buy or get most of the books you read?
These days I borrow from the library, unless I’m certain there’s a book I really want, then I’d get it from The Books Depository. (Small discounts and free shipping.)
11) If you could be friends with any character from a book, who would you be friends with?
I’ve never thought about this before! It’d perhaps be Marianne Mulvaney, from Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘We Were The Mulvaneys.’ There is something so pure yet so sad about this girl, I just want to follow her around like a ghost and hold her hand when she’s crumbling from terror or sorrow. She puts up a strong front, which is why I’d have to be a ghost-friend instead.
Most, if not all, of my blogger friends have already played this game. So instead of tagging, I’d like to throw the last question at you, my dearest reader:
If you could be friends with any fictional character, who would it be, and why?
Can't wait to read your answer ...
Ah, books ... Just about the only thing I can go on and on about.
Here are the lovely people who’ve tagged us:
Barbara of March House Books Blog
Ellen of Confessions of Character
Taurean Watkins of Talking Animal Addicts
Jess & Stephanie of The Secret DMS Files of Fairday Morrow
{Thanks, guys!}
They have each given me eleven questions to answer, but as I can’t answer 44 questions (just as I assume most readers won’t have the patience to read 44 sets of answers), I’ve selected few from each blogger to make up my own eleven.
Here are the rules of the game (of which I'm afraid I'll have to break in the end):
1. You must post the rules!
2. Answer the questions and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you’ve tagged.
3. Tag eleven people and link to them.
4. Let them know you’ve tagged them.
Off we go:
1) What new books are you most excited to read this year?
I’m looking forward to reading ‘The Wild Things;’ ‘The Book Thief;’ ‘The Year The Swallows Came Early;’ and ‘The Night Circus.’ Also, I want to read at least one Ray Bradbury novel and one Joyce Carol Oates novel/short story collection. (These two authors are on my yearly to-read list.)
2) If money were not an issue, what present would you give yourself?
I would get myself a rustic house by the sea, with a library and a place beside to have coffee with friends/family.
3) Who is your favourite literary character of all time?
Peter Lake (from Mark Helprin’s ‘Winter’s Tale’)
{And of course, on quirkier days, it's Bertie Wooster from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves series. Bertie, that hilarious worm, always in trouble because of his buddies!}
4) Physical books, E-books or audio books?
I read physical books, though I’m curious about e-books, too. (With the exceptional pricing, I can read MORE books this way.) I listened to an audio book once (Joan Aiken’s ‘The Wolves of Willoughby Chase’) and I found it difficult to concentrate on the story.
5) If you could only read one book for the rest of your life, what would it be? And why?
Still Mark Helprin’s ‘Winter’s Tale’ because I first read it at a dour point of my life and it breathed a wintry gust of magic into it. (Why, why, why could I only read ONE book?)
6) Have you ever met your favorite author?
Nope. Don’t think I’d be able to speak or breathe right if I do. I'd love to peep from afar though ...
7) Classic or Modern Novels?
Both. I love modern novels (adult and children’s) and I do like to break my reading flow with a classic. The first classic I picked up without being required to read it for class is ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.’ I do enjoy reading Dickens, too. (Barnaby Rudge, anyone?)
8) Book Groups or Solitary Reading?
Solitary.
9) When did you start blogging?
2011. I was really hesitant because I’ve never been the type to ramble my thoughts on anything to anyone.
10) Where do you buy or get most of the books you read?
These days I borrow from the library, unless I’m certain there’s a book I really want, then I’d get it from The Books Depository. (Small discounts and free shipping.)
11) If you could be friends with any character from a book, who would you be friends with?
I’ve never thought about this before! It’d perhaps be Marianne Mulvaney, from Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘We Were The Mulvaneys.’ There is something so pure yet so sad about this girl, I just want to follow her around like a ghost and hold her hand when she’s crumbling from terror or sorrow. She puts up a strong front, which is why I’d have to be a ghost-friend instead.
Most, if not all, of my blogger friends have already played this game. So instead of tagging, I’d like to throw the last question at you, my dearest reader:
If you could be friends with any fictional character, who would it be, and why?
Can't wait to read your answer ...
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