Gakked from sbweber, who wrote it herself. 🙂
1. What’s the first book you remember being read?
My mom read aloud to me a lot, but I can’t remember any of it.
2. What’s the first book you read to yourself?
I was reading so young (age 4–way before “Sesame Street” or “reading readiness” in preschool), I can’t recall the specific books. I remember reading in bed at night by the light from the hallway, but I can’t remember what!
3. What’s the latest book you’ve read?
Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice.
4. How many books do you have started now?
Right now, I don’t happen to have any books in progress.
5. How many do you think you’ll eventually finish reading?
I usually finish them.
6. What’s your current favorite children’s or picture book?
Right now, the Harry Potter books.
7. What’s your current favorite fiction book?
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
8. Do you have a favorite non-fiction book, and if so, what is it?
Unconditional Life by Deepak Chopra
9. What was your favorite book in high school?
The Lord of the Rings. I used to write poems in Dwarvish runes and elvish script all over the desks. Some boy I never met in person started writing replies. The custodians scrubbed off the desks and we’d start all over again.
10. What was your favorite book in middle school?
The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
11. What was your favorite book in elementary school?
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
12. Do you mostly buy your books or borrow them from a library?
Buy.
13. Have you ever lost or stolen a library book?
Yes. In fact, I just had to pay the Pepperell Library for Cry to Heaven because there was a little accident and it got wet. They don’t like me now. 🙁
14. What’s the latest book you’ve bought?
Song in the Dark by P.N. Elrod. I had the last bit of a Barnes & Noble gift card and I saved it for months, waiting for this to come out in paperback. I haven’t started it yet, though.
15. How many books do you own?
Who’s counting?!? Enough that I have a fantasy of buying an old library building to live in, just for the wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling shelves!
16. If you see someone reading while walking, do you: (a) avoid them, (b) trip them, or (c) try to see what it is they’re reading?
I definitely try to see what they’re reading. That’s if I even notice them because I’m too busy walking along reading myself.
17. Name one book you wish had a sequel but doesn’t:
The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs (who I met once at a convention). He has several series for kids but this was a one-off, and it’s one of my all-time favorites–strong contender with LotR for favorite high school book. Alas, Mr. Bellairs passed away a few years ago.
18. Name one book you know you should read but just can’t get through:
Ummm…golly. I don’t “should on myself” about books. There’s books I want to read and can’t find time to, but not books I “should read and can’t get through.”
19. Name one book you like to give to others:
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel. I bought extra copies just to give them to people.
20. Name one book which you re-read as comfort food for your brain:
Oh, there’s lots of those! But I’ll go through all seven of The Chronicles of Narnia at intervals.