Hour 18 - July 2015 [A-Z Survey]

[Zaz, Mood Minion]

We hope you're doing well with your read-a-thon reading list and have been enjoying the A-Z Surveys. Last letters (thanks again to the Perpetual Page Turner blog)!


Series You Started And Need To Finish(all books are out in series):
Three of your All-Time Favorite Books:
Unapologetic Fangirl For:
Very Excited For This Release More Than All The Others:
Worst Bookish Habit:
X Marks The Spot: Pick the 27th book on your "read" shelf:
Your latest book purchase:
ZZZ-snatcher book (last book that kept you up WAY late):

[Erica]

Series You Started And Need To Finish(all books are out in series):
Can't think of any… I read Cinder and not the sequels, but I know they aren't all out yet. I'm not usually that into series unless they are short.

Three of your All-Time Favorite Books:
A Wild Sheep Chase
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
House of Leaves

Unapologetic Fangirl For:
Haruki Murakami

Very Excited For This Release More Than All The Others:
Go Set a Watchman

Worst Bookish Habit:
Fall asleep with my book every night.


X Marks The Spot: Pick the 27th book on your "read" shelf:
A Christmas Carol

Your latest book purchase:
The Girl Next Door

ZZZ-snatcher book (last book that kept you up WAY late):
House of Leaves

[Marina]

Series You Started And Need To Finish(all books are out in series):
There's too many to mention

Three of your All-Time Favorite Books:
The Shadow of the Wind
The Pillars of the Earth
A Man Called Ove

Unapologetic Fangirl For:
Jo Nesbø

Very Excited For This Release More Than All The Others:


Worst Bookish Habit:
No habit involving books or reading are bad

X Marks The Spot: Pick the 27th book on your "read" shelf:
An Evil Mind

Your latest book purchase:
I can't remember, but I just won All the Light We Cannot See the other day

ZZZ-snatcher book (last book that kept you up WAY late):
The Girl on the Train even though I wasn't too impressed with it.

[Zaz, Mood Minion]

Series You Started And Need To Finish(all books are out in series):
- Tobie Lolness (with Toby and the Secrets of the Tree, the #2)

Three of your All-Time Favorite Books:
- The Waste Lands (Dark Tower #3), Les Fiancés de l'Hiver (La Passe-Miroir #1), Hollow World

Unapologetic Fangirl For:
- Hollow World

Very Excited For This Release More Than All The Others:
- The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne #3)

Worst Bookish Habit:
- "Just one more chapter" (and 2 hours later...)

X Marks The Spot: Pick the 27th book on your "read" shelf:
- Wool Omnibus (not counting graphic novels, manga, etc)

Your latest book purchase:
- On July: Hollow World in paperback, Fées in ebook.

ZZZ-snatcher book (last book that kept you up WAY late):
- Uprooted

[Elín Birna]

Just joining in again! I'm in Sweden so I'm 8 hrs ahead, so I can read until 4pm today :)

Series You Started And Need To Finish(all books are out in series):
Game of Thrones (well, book #5 is out and I haven't read it)

Three of your All-Time Favorite Books:
The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
Karitas án Titils by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir (Icelandic...)
Anne of Green Gables by LMM Montgomery (well, in memory at least :) )

Unapologetic Fangirl For:
Astrid Lindgren

Very Excited For This Release More Than All The Others:
Hmm can't think of any right now...

Worst Bookish Habit:
Choosing reading over sleeping ("Just ten minutes more...")

X Marks The Spot: Pick the 27th book on your "read" shelf:
Listing by "added", no 27 is The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Mon Kidd

Your latest book purchase:
Canada by Richard Ford, and two novels about Icelandic emigration to America during the 18th century ("Vesturfarasögurnar" by Böðvar Guðmundsson)

ZZZ-snatcher book (last book that kept you up WAY late):
Walking back to happiness by Lucy Dillon

[Bana AZ]

Series You Started And Need To Finish(all books are out in series):
--The Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini. I only need to read the last book.

Three of your All-Time Favorite Books:
--The Little Prince, Ella Enchanted, A Wrinkle in Time (My answers here differ from the "post the cover of your favorite book" comment)

Unapologetic Fangirl For:
--Harry Potter

Very Excited For This Release More Than All The Others:
--The Winds of Winter by George R.R. Martin, book 6 of A Song of Fire and Ice

Worst Bookish Habit:
--Hm, ignoring someone who's trying to talk to me because I want to read instead.

X Marks The Spot: Pick the 27th book on your "read" shelf:
--The Scarlet Letter

Your latest book purchase:
--The Lightning Thief at a garage sale! It was very cheap.

ZZZ-snatcher book (last book that kept you up WAY late):
--I don't remember. Maybe Stephen King's The Stand

[Laura, Mod]

Ana, is it bad that I usually have headphones in with no music just so people don't bug me on trains/airplanes? haha

[Bana AZ]

Laura wrote: " Ana, is it bad that I usually have headphones in with no music just so people don't bug me on trains/airplanes? haha"

If you don't feel any regret, it's perfectly fine. Haha