The Bookish Blog Tag

I snagged this tag from Reading by the Moonlight.

Top 3 Favorite Books of All TimeTremblay really disappointed me with Survivor Song, but HFOG is still one of my absolute favorite novels. It’s incredibly multi-layered, complex, and eerie.

Gruesome body horror blended with magical realism, existential angst around the burden of being in the provider role, and the general malaise that came with Modernism and the end of the 19th century: Kafka’s novella is brilliant and I could never get sick of reading it.

And here’s another writer who really disappointed me recently. She said something really ignorant about the harm caused by the pharmaceutical corporations in The Whispering Dead, a book I was disgusted to see has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2021.

I probably won’t read any Darcy Coates books after seeing how careless she is about spreading ignorance. She literally makes a flippant joke about “Big Pharma” being a conspiracy theory. Yeah…I don’t think the thousands of people who have died from the opioid epidemic is a joke (many of them people who followed instructions and recommendations given to them by their doctors-who unfortunately had been influenced in a number of direct and insidious ways by the terrible and unethical practices of the pharmaceutical corporations).

Anyway, I really really loved The Haunting of Leigh Harker, but I’m way too disgusted by the way she was shilling for pharmaceutical companies, who are responsible for countless deaths and harm the most vulnerable populations, to ever read another book of hers again.

Top 3 Favorite Authors of All Time

Kafka, Anne M. Martin, V.C. Andrews.

I am combining questions 2 and 3, because I find unnecessarily focusing on gender condescending at best and harmful segregation at worst. New question is: Favorite Character of All Time

Gregor in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.

Favorite Mythical World

Harry Potter’s magical world. I always wanted to go to Hogwarts as a kid.

What Book Has Your Favorite Cover?

I like basically all Zoe Chant covers, but Sealed with a Kiss might be my favorite, only because the seal looks so darn bashful.

What is your favorite book to movie adaptation?

I almost never watch movies if I’ve already seen the book. I might be the only Harry Potter fan who hasn’t watched the movies.

I do the reverse too. If I’ve seen the movie, I usually don’t want to read the book.

I think the only time I’ve ever wanted to watch an adaptation of books I’ve read is the recently released Wheel of Time series on amazon Prime. I dunno, I guess Daniel Green got me hyped for it. I don’t have amazon prime though *sobs*

If you could make any book into a movie, what would it be?

I don’t think books should be made into movies most of the time. Books aren’t movies in rough form. They are their own totally valid media.

What was your favorite childhood book?

The Babysitter’s Club. I had tons of these books and read and reread them over and over.

Okay, I tag anyone who feels like doing this tag.