Book questions

1. Favorite book? That's a rough question... I went into my "favorites" tag and looked for the book I had the fondest feelings for. Turns out it's currently The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward.

2. Favorite author? I went through the list of authors I follow... The one I have the fondest feelings towards right now is Naomi Novik.

3. Popular book you dislike? I've tried to read The Traitor Baru Cormorant and Gideon the Ninth because I was promised lesbian weirdness, but both bored me.

4. Favorite genre? Horror

5. Book you hope will not be turned into a movie or TV show? Doesn't matter, since I don't watch movies/TV anyway.

6. Book you hope will be turned into a movie or TV show? See above.

7. Physical books or ebooks? Ebooks!!!

8. Favorite book quote? I went through my saved quotes and felt the most fondness for

“Take my eyes; take my voice; take my hands; take it all. If the stars exist behind the night and there is a king who grants the wishes of kings, if hope is a tether that binds to the light, I'd pay all the years I have left in darkness, please don't take him.” - K. Ancrum's The Legend of the Golden Raven

9. Favorite book cover? I don't know if it's my "favorite," but right now I'm really loving the cover for Rin Chupeco's The Sacrifice. It's kinda sexy and very spooky.

10. Scariest book you’ve read? This is hard because I don't really get scared much by anything (fictional, I mean. I'm a total coward for anything real)... I think the last time I felt any fear at all from a book was T. Kingfisher's The Twisted Ones, and that only lasted til the halfway point.

11. Funniest book you’ve read? I'm not one for comedy, but the first funny book that comes to mind is The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee.

12. Saddest book you’ve read? I remember bawling my eyes out after my roommate made me read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. And of course I started sobbing in the middle of school after reading Where the Red Fern Grows and Bridge to Terabithia.

13. Favorite trope? Skip

14. Favorite children's book author? Gonna say Bruce Coville. I loved his Magic Shop books as a kid; they're really creative and fun. I still remember some of the poetry today. And! His book The Skull of Truth was the FIRST time Kid-Me encountered a gay character in media. This was back when it was really, really hard for kids' authors to publish gay rep. Do you have any idea how much that meant to me as a tiny, closeted lesbian???

15. Book you didn't finish? Most recently, Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong.

16. First book you remember reading? Hard to say, because I have a pretty damn good memory and I can't recall which was the "first," but I remember my dad reading me a lot of picture books. I guess I remember being very pleased that I read the picture book Chicken Chuck all by myself, without parental help.

17. What book are you reading right now? I always read multiple books at once because I've got the ADHD (diagnosed and medicated and everything). Currently reading A Grimm Warning by Chris Colfer, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao, Billy Summers by Stephen King, and The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein.

18. Last book you read? The last book I finished was Dragonslayer by Tui T Sutherland.

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19. Do you read fanfiction? Yeah, all the time!

20. Last book that made you cry? I don't cry as much as I used to... I'm on the Good Drugs. But anyway, I cried when re-reading Animorphs #53, The Answer; it got me right in the nostalgia.

21. Favorite character? I went through my favorite characters lists and, after filtering out the ones that weren't from books, I gotta say Georgia Mason from the Newsflesh series. I'm also very fond of El from Scholomance and Wu Zetian from Iron Widow. I like badass tough girls who take no shit!

22. Do you buy used books? On the rare occasions I buy physical books at all, yes, they're always used.

23. Books you read in school? I'm not in school. I haven't been in school in years. (I don't understand this question.) Um, I really enjoy a lot of classic American lit that we happened to also read in school... To Kill a Mockingbird; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn... But I don't love them because of school; I love them because my sister read them to me when I was tiny. I like most of Shakespeare's works, too, especially Titus Andronicus and Hamlet. There were books I hated in school, too... I hated anything by George Orwell, and I absolutely loathed One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest.

24. Do you check out books from the library? Yep! 99% of what I read is from the e-library. I'm brooooke, and I was raised to love libraries from infancy.

25. Favorite children's book? Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.

26. Series or standalones? Both are fine, but I prefer standalones.

27. Book you didn't like? Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (I don't really like anything by Moshfegh).

28. Paperback or hardcover? I guess paperbacks, on the rare occasions I read physical books. I'm rough; I bend the pages and throw them around and write in the margins.

29. How did you get into reading? Same thing that got most people my age into reading; I saw the first Harry Potter movie and had to read all the books after that. (Plus, my parents both worked at a library and I come from a very book-obsessed family. I got read to a lot as a kid.) And no, I'm not linking any Parry Hotter things in this blog post. Fuck Rowling; trans lives matter.

30. Book recommendation? Any of Samantha Irby's autobiographies. They've got it all; you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel empowered to change the world for the better...