Literary Me
1) What author do you own the most books by?
J.K. Rowling and Nick Hornby.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
A little.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Rob Fleming from High Fidelity or Darcy from Pride and Prejudice
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)?
Pride & Prejudice, or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, or The Babysitter’s Club books.
7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?’
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.
8 ) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Peter Pan
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
No idea, don’t really pay attention. Something tells me I should though.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
The Outlander series
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
I really don’t know, it seems like they’re all made into movies nowadays.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
Lunching with J.K. Rowling.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
Erotica, definitely. Or manga.
15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
Vanity Fair. Or Don Quixote.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
I’ve only seen Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The French.
18) Roth or Updike?
Eh.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare
21) Austen or Eliot?
Both, please.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Harry Potter will always be cool.
23) What is your favorite novel?
High Fidelity or Pride & Prejudice
24) Play?
Othello.
25) Poem?
The Lovesong of Alfred J. Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
26) Essay?
Hornby’s essays.
27) Short story?
Shop Girl by Steve Martin or The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy
28) Work of nonfiction?
Nick Hornby’s lit crit.
29) Who is your favourite writer?
Hornby or Rowling.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Grisham.
31) What is your desert island book?
High Fidelity
32) And… what are you reading right now?
About A Boy, by Nick Hornby and My Life as a Girl in a Men’s Prison, by Kate Pullinger
