book meme

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
i have my childhood copy of the velveteen rabbit.

2. What is your current read, your last read, and the book you’ll read next?i am bookless at the moment, having finished my last read about 15 minutes ago, it was simple and chic sewing. my next book is the unseen academicals by trerry pratchett

3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
umm.. i don't hate books. they are shiny and fantastic. however the last book i disliked was faefever by karen marie moening. and most poeple i know who've read it seem to like it

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?
the host by stephanie myers

5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”
the oddesey in greek

6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
wait till the end! no spoilers

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
very interesting and nifty.

8. Which book character would you switch places with?
the librarian in the discworld books

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
most of them.

10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
when i was 14, i borrowed the first book of the finovar tapestry at a friends house, and promptly after returning it, we had a giant fight and stopped talking. 10 years later we met, and when i mentioned that i had fallen in love with the trilogy and that author, she gave me her trilogy.


11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
yep

12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
the veleveteen rabbit. i got it in bc, and its gone pretty much everywhere with me since

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later? i liked most of the books i read.

14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
a movie ticket from a theatre in texas, from a library book i got in bc

15. Used or brand new?
both! but i don't do hardcovers

16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
absolutely fantastic!

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
lotr:rotk

18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
the seeker based on the dark is rising.

19. Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
yes! pretty much all of the diane mott davidson books.

20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?