Reading quesitons
Darling @bootsnblossoms tagged me, so here are we are. ;)
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
I lost all my books when I moved to the UK (long story), and now that I have a long term flat, I’m slowly trying to build my library again, though I mostly buy my books in electronic format until I actually settle for good. But at the time, the books that I had the longest where ‘children’s books’ that I discovered when I was in primary school and got me to start loving reading. The main one was ‘L’enfant des ombres’ (The child from the shadows) written my Moka and it’s the one that got my started in supernatural fiction. And I just found out that it’s actually available in ebook, so I’ll be buying it in a bit!
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?
I’m currently reading Seven Up from Janet Evanovich (and the first in the Stephanie Plum series that is available in ebook… :( ) as well as The good, the bad and the undead from Kim Harrison. I just love reading the Stephanie Plum series, it always makes me laugh. I’ve only read a few of them, so I’m now skipping a few and starting with the ebooks. And I discovered Kim Harrison in the anthology Dates from Hell, and so started reading her The Hallows series. Not too bad for the moment.
My last read was Imprudence from @gailcarriger and I’m sooooo looking forward to when Competence will be out this summer! (I’m also looking forward for the spring and fall book releases, I just adore her books).
My next read should normally be The Colour of Magic from Terry Pratchett. I’m finally starting on his Discworld series! I’ve only ever read Good Omens from him (though that was also written with Nail Gaiman). I’m looking forward to discovering this universe!
3. Which book does everyone like and you hated?
I can’t really say? My taste in books have mostly been completely different from the people around me, so I wouldn’t really read the books they would, so wouldn’t have the change to hate them or not. :P
But let it be known that at the time Harry Potter was all the rage in Belgium, my grand mother bought the books then passed them to me, and I did not like them at all. It took me buying them in English more than a decade later before I actually learned to enjoy the books.
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?
Probably most of the ‘classics’ you always find on must read lists.
5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?
Why would I ever do that? I might have a non ending pile of books to read, but none of them are waiting to be read during my retirement!
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
I like being surprised with the ending. Especially since I love guessing how it will end. I might read the end if I’m having a hard time continuing to read it, to see if the ending will make me want to know how we got there.
7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Depending on the author, I might read them, but let’s be honest, most of the time I skip them. But as a writer, they’re important.
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
I… have no idea? For a long time I wanted to swap place with Anita Blake from Laurell K Hamilton’s eponymous series, but that was before the series went away of itself. Currently, I don’t know.
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
I used to have a lot, but as mentioned previously, I lost all of my books when I moved to the UK, so all my current books are either quite new, or in ebook formats. The Anita Blake series will always keep a special place in my heart, as it’s what got me in fandom, and a got quite a few good friends out of it.
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I don’t think I have, actually? I keep thinking, looking back at the books I had, and the best I can think of is the nearly 100 euros I spent to find an English copy of two book of which I had read the French translation, but were hard to get a hand on in their original English. It was The Infernal and Grimoire from Kim Wilkins.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
Nope. I tend to keep my books jealously. I’ll buy a copy of a book I really enjoyed and offer it to friends to which I think they might enjoy, but I won’t part with my own copy. Or at least I haven’t found a person worth separating myself from one of my books. :P
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
Again, none of the ones I currently have, since most of them were bought after I moved in this flat. Ask me again in a few years. ^^
13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
I’ll be honest and say that most books that I was forced to read in high school, I hated and haven’t ever tried to read them again. But the last could of years in high school, the assigned books were actually quite good, and I actually kept them (until they were lost).
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Nothing that I can remember. I don’t tend to put stuff in my books, nor do I often buy used books, so there hasn’t been much occasions to find things in books that don’t belong there.
15. Used or brand new?
Unless very specific circumstances, I prefer my books new. For the simple fact that I love being the first one to open them and ‘crack’ the spine.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I used to swear by him when I discovered him in my teens, but then I discovered Graham Masterton and though I still enjoy reading his books, he’s not the be all, end all of horror.
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
Not a lot that I can think of, but one of them was Perfume. I had to read it in high school, in French, and though it’s far from being the worse book I had to read, I much prefer the film. I’ll be honest and say that it’s probably because I have a sweet spot for Ben Whishaw…
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
I started watch Bitten, because it was on Netflix and I absolutely love Kelly Armstrong’s series Women of the Otherworld. I didn’t even finish watching the first episode. Eurgh.
19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
Not that I remember, no. Books that have made me horny, yes, but hungry, no. :P
20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
I haven’t really got a lot of those. But in more recent times two of my colleagues/friends have given me pretty good book advice.
This was long… It took some time to get through. ^^
Tagging @amberstarfight, @poetry-protest-pornography, @cobrilee, @the-pen-pot, @toni-of-the-trees and who ever else wants to do this! :)
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