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colliemommie:
1. Favourite childhood book?
Elizabeth Enright's Melendy books, My Side of the Mountain, the Betsy-Tacy books, the Little House books, Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton...
2. What are you reading right now?
Bedtime book is the fifth 500 Kingdoms book, The Sleeping Beauty. Daytime reading is all Klondike, all the time (research for Repeating History's sequel).
3. What books do you have on request at the library?
Lots more Klondike books and books on the Gay Nineties (try keyword searching
that in the library's catalog!) and the Panic of 1893 and the depression it resulted in.
4. Bad book habit?
Leaving them spreadeagled at the page I'm on. I know it's hard on the spine, I really do.
5. What do you currently have checked out at the library?
See Klondike reading, above. And that 500 Kingdoms book, and a couple of short story collections.
6. Do you have an e-reader?
I use my netbook with both Calibre and the Kindle app on it.
7. Do you prefer to read one book at a time, or several at once?
Well, there's the bed book, and the kitchen table book, and the wing chair book, and the car book...
8. Have your reading habits changed since starting a blog?
No.
9. Least favourite book you read this year (so far?)
I was pretty disappointed in a book I checked out earlier this year about the Great Wall of China.
10. Favourite book you've read this year?
That's like asking me to choose a favorite child.
11. How often do you read out of your comfort zone?
Not as often as I should.
12. What is your reading comfort zone?
Romance, fantasy, character-driven science fiction, historical fiction, travel narratives, history, biography, biographies of place, some science, gardening, needlework and various other how-tos.
13. Can you read on the bus?
I used to be able to read in moving vehicles when I was a kid, but it makes me sick to my stomach these days, alas.
14. Favourite place to read?
Bed.
15. What is your policy on book lending?
Funny, but I don't get asked to lend books that often.
16. Do you ever dog-ear books?
I did when I was a kid, but not anymore.
17. Do you ever write in the margins of your books?
No.
18. Not even with text books?
No.
19. What is your favourite language to read in?
English.
20. What makes you love a book?
It has to be populated with Real People [tm].
21. What will inspire you to recommend a book?
I used to be a librarian. Recommending books was what I did for a living.
22. Favourite genre?
Romance.
23. Genre you rarely read (but wish you did?)
I'd like to read more about places and times I don't know enough about, but it's hard to find good readable books that don't put me to sleep on such subjects.
24. Favourite biography?
I don't really have one.
25. Have you ever read a self-help book?
Yes.
26. Favourite cookbook?
The old Betty Crocker cookbook that came in the D-ring binder. (just like
colliemommie who I cribbed this from!)
27. Most inspirational book you've read this year (fiction or non-fiction)?
My brain doesn't work that way.
28. Favourite reading snack?
Don't really have one.
29. Name a case in which hype ruined your reading experience.
Can’t think of anything right now.
30. How often do you agree with critics about a book?
I used to spend much of my working life reading book reviews. I rarely read them anymore.
31. How do you feel about giving bad/negative reviews?
As long as they say specifically
why they didn't like it, I'm okay.
32. If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you choose?
I don't know.
33. Most intimidating book you've ever read?
Europe, by Norman Davies. I never did finish it, and it's still sitting on my bookcase with a bookmark in it. Someday...
34. Most intimidating book you're too nervous to begin?
None.
35. Favourite Poet?
Probably Frost. Or Dickinson. Or Coleridge or Wordsworth. Or Carroll. Or Donne. Or Blake. Er, sorry. I was an English major.
36. How many books do you usually have checked out of the library at any given time?
I'm one of those people for whom self-checkout machines were invented.
37. How often have you returned books to the library unread?
About a third of the time. It's a bad habit I got into when I worked in libraries.
38. Favourite fictional character?
Miles Vorkosigan. And Ramses Emerson.
40. Books I'm most likely to bring on vacation?
I always try to bring one good solid non-fiction book with me, and lots of light reading.
41. The longest I've gone without reading.
A few hours, maybe?
42. Name a book that you could/would not finish.
Lots.
43. What distracts you easily when you're reading?
The cat sitting on my head.
44. Favourite film adaptation of a novel?
Several, actually. Anne of Green Gables, Cold Comfort Farm, Lord of the Rings...
45. Most disappointing film adaptation?
Too many to name.
46. The most money I've ever spent in the bookstore at one time?
Over a hundred dollars.
47. How often do you skim a book before reading it?
Seldom to never.
48. What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?
When I find myself falling asleep.
49. Do you like to keep your books organized?
By general subject or genre.
50. Do you prefer to keep books or give them away once you've read them?
I hang onto anything I'm likely to reread. Anything else goes to the UBS.
51. Are there any books you've been avoiding?
No.
52. Name a book that made you angry.
I can't think of one.
53. A book you didn't expect to like but did?
I don't generally read books I don't expect to like [g].
54. A book that you expected to like but didn't?
A few.
55. Favourite guilt-free, pleasure reading?
Lois McMaster Bujold, Elizabeth Peters, Mary Stewart, and most of my romances.
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