The Book Meme

Nabbed from Kate.

1) What author do you own the most books by?
J.K. Rowling.

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Copies? I don’t own multiple copies of any book.

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
It hurts a little, but I tolerated it.

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
When I was younger I was in love with Ira from the book The Night Room. No one so much anymore, although I’ll always have a soft spot for Mr. Darcy.

5) What book have you read the most times in your life (excluding picture books read to children; i.e., Goodnight Moon does not count)?
Probably An Invisible Sign of my Own by Aimee Bender, or Fishbowl by Sarah Mlynowski, or maybe The Night Room (see above).

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
I loved Tamara Pierce back then.

7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?'
Sadly, it’s been about a year since I left grad school so I can’t put something from that. If I don’t like a book, I wont finish it.

8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Special Topics in Calamity Physics

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
An Invisible Sign of my Own by Aimee Bender, because I

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
Paul Auster or Jhumpa Lahari

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Fishbowl by Sarah Mlynowski

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
They made a movie of An Invisible Sign of my Own…starring Jessica Alba…and I’m terrified to see it.

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I can’t remember any off the top of my head.

14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
I read a romance novel. The man was this lonely woodsman. The sex parts were good, but the plot was awful.

15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man…and I loved it.

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
I’ve only seen Merchant of Venice, Hamlet…and I forget the other one. It was a comedy.

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The French, only because I haven’t really read the Russians.

18) Roth or Updike?
Auster…oh, fine, Updike.

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Chaucer

21) Austen or Eliot?
I like both, but I’ll say Austen.

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
See number 17. I haven’t read the Russians.

23) What is your favorite novel?
An Invisible Sign of my Own

24) Play?
No idea.  I don't think I've ever read one.

25) Poem?
I can’t remember the name, or the poet, which is sad. (Although I love Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, too, Kate.)

26) Essay?
Not particularly fond of those.

27) Short story?
The Chrysanthemums by Steinbeck

28) Work of nonfiction?
I don’t like to read nonfiction much. Blink was somewhat enjoyable.

29) Who is your favourite writer?
Aimee Bender or Paul Auster

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Steven King