Friday 7 October 2011

Book Lover Questionnaire

Hello, I'm feeling a bit bookish this evening so I stole this book quiz from Helen's Book Blog. 
I would love to hear your answers too so post below or send me a link to this quiz on your blog. 
Happy weekend everyone 
xoxo Kat. 

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?

All my Enid Blyton's that I grew up with. I love them all but particularly the Malory Towers books. I initially had my mums old copies but had to get new ones to avoid completely destroying them. I hate the new modernised covers they have put on them now though.

2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you'll read next?
I am reading A Clash of Kings, just read A Game of Thrones and next I will read the third book in that series, the name of it is evading me right not but I am just loving that series. There will probably have to be some uni books squeezed in amongst these.

3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
On The Road by Jack Keruoac. I really wanted to like it but I just found it impossible.

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't? 
Dracula. I do want to read it but I never seem to actually do it and I'm a bit scared of it if I'm honest. 

5. Which book are you saving for "retirement?" 
Haha I don't have any particular plans for my retirement. Maybe I'll focus on reading all of the books I haven't read by then from the BBC Top 100.

6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
Oo always wait till the end. I hate spoilers.

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
I love them, they're such an insight into the author's life.

8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Jojo Harvey from The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes. She is such a strong female character and has an amazing job as a literary agent.

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
Anne McCaffrey's Dragon books remind me of my friends in junior high. They all read them and I didn't. I felt so out of it.

10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I can't think of anything other than the Malory Towers books that my mum gave me:


11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
Yes, but I don't think it would still be special if I blogged about it :)

12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
I'm going to be cheeky and say The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo because I had it travelling.

13. Any "required reading" you hated in high school that wasn't so bad ten years later? 
Maybe I should try Tess of the D'Urbervilles again. I loathed in in school, maybe I will prefer it now.

14. What is the strangest item you've ever found in a book?
I found pressed flowers in the back of a second hand book once. I can't remember what book but I remember the flowers.

15. Used or brand new?
I like both, I like to think where used books might have been before but then there's something exciting about buying a crisp new copy of a book new from a bookshop.

16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I've never read anything by Stephen King, I'm not really a horror girl in books or films.

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
Not yet, I wonder if next years On The Road might be the first.

18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
PS I Love You. Beautiful book. Dodgy film. Even dodgier accents. 

19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
Yes, Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan. It's centred around a woman opening a Cupcake shop (I probably didn't need to explain that, did I?) and there are recipes at the start of every chapter. I was craving scones the whole time I read it.

20. Who is the person whose book advice you'll always take?
My mum's, she introduced me to reading and we always share books that we like. She's a bit more into thrillers and the like than me but she knows whether I'll like a book or not.

3 comments:

  1. I love Enid Blyton! My mum found an original copy of one book, I forget which, on Amazon. It wasn't expensive either! I don't like the new covers either!

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  2. Such a good post, I'll be doing the same soon I think!

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  3. @Ghin definitely give it a go, I loved that post.
    @ Amie I'm glad someone agrees with me on the new covers, they just make me shudder!

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