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Question:
Favorite author?
Your first book remembered fondly?
Do you re-read favorites or all books only once?
Mod
- Patricia Briggs
- A Richard Scary picture book
- I do re-read favs. I've been doing that all this year.
Questions:
- Favorite movie?
- Favorite color?
- Open the book nearest to you and type the first sentence you read.
The GooniesBlue or Green or Purple - depends on my mood!
'The Mermidons were ancient Greeks,' he said. [from The Extraordinaires by Michael Pryor]
Do you prefer to walk around the house barefoot or in some kind of slipper/shoe?
Do you prefer tea or coffee?
Does the tp roll end come over the top of the roll or underneath?
Depends on season & weather. Slippers when it's cold, no slippers when it's hot.Coffee.
The tp rolls whichever way it rolls...
Questions:
- Favorite urban fantasy?
- Favorite graphic novel?
- Liquid soap or bar soap?
Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews.Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Both.
Buffy, Firefly or Sherlock?
Who was your first Doctor?
What book are you reading next?
BuffyTom Baker
Not sure....
BTW - I agree on Sandman
Star Wars or Star Trek?
Favorite Pizza toppings
Vampires, Werewolves, or Witches?
Star Trek (that's rough though) Onions
Witches
Cake or Cupcake
Magic or Superpower
What is your least Favorite TV Show or Movie based on a book?
Cakemagic
dresden files
firefly or star wars?
Cranberry or apple sauce?
paperback or hardback?
Firefly (only because I'm taking the whole series into account and I hate Star Wars 1-3)Cranberry-apple of course
Paperback, although mostly digital these days
Favorite Cold Weather drink?
Homemade or storebought?
Best cookbook?
Jasmine teahomemade
the internet
Ice cream; vanilla or chocolate?
Worst clothing purchase mistake?
Biggest mess you made and had to explain to parents as a kid?
ChocolateA dress with shoulder pads (it was last year and online purchase dammit lol)
Gutted my uncles beautiful bluefish - I want to dissect it - it did not go well
Vacation Spot: City, Mountains or Beach
How do you like your eggs?
The last book you purchased?
Dirty, dirty, dirtyMacadania nut waffles
Kids = 4 (1 hubby and 3 parrots)
Where are you from?
Where do you want to visit?
What is your main goal in life?
Auckland, New Zealand. Quebec.
To be kind.
Favourite flavour of ice cream.
Something you expected to dislike that surprised you.
Something beautiful that brings tears.
Rainbow sorbetReading biographies, good thing I did.
Being reunited with loved ones after a long time
What kind of shoes you adore.
Fuzzy blankets or silk blankets.
One of your cherished memory?
My owl shoes from modclothFuzzy
When I was 13, running around Disneyland in the rain with my best friends. The place was almost empty. We bought $2 ponchos and had a ball.
What book is atuck in limbo on your shelf?
Are you going to see Desolation of Smaug?
Do you watch network TV?
1.The Time Engine by Sean McMullin - it is the fourth in the series and it took me several years to find a copy and now I've mostly forgotten most of the story so I don't have a big urge to read it.2.I haven't seen the first half of The Hobbit yet so probably not in the theater. Too 'spensive.
3.I watch Jeopardy and the news before it comes on and that is about it.
Are you done with gift shopping for Christmas yet? If you don't celebrate, do you procrastinate for other gifts or get them right away?
Do you have a smartphone?
Do you like to play board games?
Nope, but getting there. Yes
Yes
What is your favorite board game?
Favorite cookie?
Favorite online retailer( besides Amazon)?
MonopolyChocolate Chip
Etsy
Favorite place to read?
Favorite author?
When reading a book do you like the end tied up nice and neat or cliff hanger?
Lying on the couch with my cat sitting on my stomach.Raymond Chandler
Cliff hanger
Coffee or tea?
Print book or ebook?
Writing by pen or keyboard?
CoffeeBoth
Both
Christmas trees - real, fake or none?
Love cold weather or can't wait for summer?
What book are you asking for as a gift?
1-Real 2-Hate cold weather
3-Fury of the Demon (Kara Gillian) by Diana (Kindle Edition) RD:01/07/2014
What's your preference EBooks-Paperbacks-or Hard Covers?
How many books do you read a week?
The majority of the reading material in your collection are authored by Indie(self published etc) or Best Sellers?
1.Whatever I can get my hands on. I don't really have a preference other than they be good books ;-)2.Lots. Approximately five or so depending.
3.I've got more and more indies in my collection but still the bulk is from trad publishers.
What is the best indie book you've read lately?
Hot tea or hot chocolate?
Do you watch sports, play sports or neither?
1. Wool Omnibus2. hot chocolate
3. neither
What's your favorite non- board game?
Brownies or cake?
Mulled cider or mulled wine?
Plants vs ZombiesCake
Oooh, I think I have to go with cider for the win, but both are excellent
Favorite nonfiction book?
Favorite cookbook?
Bookmarks: never use them, hopelessly addicted, or what's a bookmark I read eBooks?
1.Nonfiction? I rarely read those but Opening Skinner's Box by Lauren Slater was good (if quite disturbing at the same time)2.I don't often cook and though we do have several cookbooks on hand, when I need a recipe I crowdsource from the internet.
3.I use them constantly but they might be something pretty that was designed for it or they might be some random piece of paper I picked up when needed. My current favorites are a set of images of a feather with an image of an owl worked into the end of the feather.
1. Prefer cold weather or hot?
2. Eat breakfast every day or skip it?
3. Comedy or Drama?
HotSkip
Drama
1- If you had to live in an alternate world which book's world would you choose?
2- would you rather have cork screw curls or stick straight hair?
3- Do you prefer cats to dogs or vice versa?
Jeanny wrote: "HotSkip
Drama
1- If you had to live in an alternate world which book's world would you choose?
2- would you rather have cork screw curls or stick straight hair?
3- Do you prefer cats to dogs or v..."
1. That is a good, difficult question. Shoots. I'll go with Roger Zelazny's Amber world, since you can weave anything into existence and go to any time period.
2. Stick straight. I like curls, but trust me, corkscrew wouldn't look good on me.
3. Well, since my cat overlord is looking at me so evilly right now...CATS. NO HESITATION.
Questions:
1. If you could have dinner with any literary character, who would it be and why?
2. Which favorite book of yours needs to be made into a movie, pronto?
3. If you could change the ending to any book, which one would it be..and, you guessed it, why?
1. If you could have dinner with any literary character, who would it be and why?2. Which favorite book of yours needs to be made into a movie, pronto?
3. If you could change the ending to any book, which one would it be..and, you guessed it, why?
1. Right now I want dinner with Jenks simply because he's hilarious.
2. Magician by Raymond E. Feist although a series would be better to fully explore the world and characters.
3. The Sookie books because the final 2 seemed rushed as though Charlaine Harris had lost interest in them and just wanted to get it over with.
Questions:
1. Favourite season?
2. Camping or hotel?
3. Country of origin?
Southern CaliforniaOatmeal
Tv, Pillow, cup
Questions:1. Favourite season?
Summer
2. Camping or hotel?
Hotel
3. Country of origin?
United States
It looks like you all just killed the game!I'll try resurrecting it by restarting from the beginning.
- where are you from?
Miami.
- what is your favorite snack food?
Cheese Puffs!
- what are the three closest objects to you right now?
Besides my computer:
Comforter I'm wrapped in.
Plastic cup of coke.
Funnily enough, a USB Cassette -> MP3 converter.
1) What's your favorite vacation spot?
2) What's your preferred reading device?
3) In books, tv, movies, whatever, what's one character trait that will totally make you dislike a character you would otherwise love?
1) What's your favorite vacation spot? Bunbury, Western Australia.
2) What's your preferred reading device?
Kobo touch. My favourite bit of technology.
3) In books, tv, movies, whatever, what's one character trait that will totally make you dislike a character you would otherwise love?
Helpless females make me want to throw things.
1) Favourite childhood memory?
2) Read with or without background noise?
3) Colour of the top you're wearing?
- Favourite childhood memory?Making an entire Ghostbusters costume out of stuff I found around the house, then having my dad play a cruel practical joke on me that made me think our house was haunted.
- Read with or without background noise?
Doesn't matter. I have the ability to completely "switch off" background noise while reading.
- Colour of the top you're wearing?
Light grey.
OK, my turn!
1) Which fictional character would you most want at your side during a zombie apocalypse?
2) Which book / series would you most like to see adapted for film / TV?
3) Which book / series that has finished would you most like resurrected for a sequel?
1) Which fictional character would you most want at your side during a zombie apocalypse?Kate Daniels - I will carry the guns and she can use her sword!
2) Which book / series would you most like to see adapted for film / TV?
Simon R. Green's "Nightside" series
3) Which book / series that has finished would you most like resurrected for a sequel?
"Inkworld" Cornelia Funke
Now for mine -
1) What SciFi channel series would you most like to see resurrected?
2) What book series with wereanimals would you most like to become a member of? What wereanimal would you be?
3) You just got the newest in your favorite series. Where would you like to read it and what would you be doing? (What you you eat, your surroundings, etc. Anywhere you wish.)
1) I don't watch much tv so I'll consider the question to be what tv series I'd like to see resurrected - probably Firefly or Voyagers (time travel series from the 80's)or both.2) I think I'd have to choose Patricia Briggs' world created for the Mercy Thompson and Alpha and Omega series. I like how they are all well integrated into human society but also have their own too. I'd probably be some sort of big cat, cheetah maybe.
3) I have multiple favorite series but money were no object, I'd like to read it in an empty (of people) house with all sorts of snacks and drinks on hand but no distractions.
My questions:
1. If you could choose a superpower but only one of these three: invisibility, flight, strength, which would you choose?
2. If you had to bake a cake to impress a new boss/friend/neighbor what kind of cake would it be?
3. You own a big plot of land that you can't use and now is suddenly of interest to a big box store and they offer a pile of money for it. Do you take it?
1) Strength. I want to be able to open my own jars.2) Death by chocolate!
3) Yep. We need more Ikea and in my neighbourhood it wouldn't put any small business out because there just aren't any, so my conscience would be clear so I can take the cash then spend it all in Ikea. Win!
My questions:
1) If you could live any where in the world, where would it be?
2) What do you do when you're not reading?
3) If you could undo one bad thing that happened in the world at any point in time, what would it be?
1) If you could live any where in the world, where would it be?My personal tropical Island not too far from civilization
2) What do you do when you're not reading?
Be mundane eat, sleep, work repeat.
3) If you could undo one bad thing that happened in the world at any point in time, what would it be?
The moment mankind discovered discrimination with in their psyche. Discrimination fueled much of history's more unpleasant events.
My questions
1, If you had a once in a life time round trip to your choice of the past or future & a safe return back to the present, which would you choose & why?
2, If you lived in the wizarding world of harry potter & attended Hogwarts which of the four houses would the sorting hat determine you belong to Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin & why?
3, Please recommend me a good urban fantasy book. =)
1. The Renaissance - I'd like to see all those artists and intellectuals in action.2. Ravenclaw
3. Cry Baby Hollow by Aimee Gilchrist or Under Witch Moon by Maria E. Schneider
1. When you pay for something with cash, do you try to give exact change or just hand over bills even though you know you have change on hand?
2. Most often reading position: sitting up, lying down or sprawled sideways?
3. Milk: whole, 2%, skim...?
My A's1.If there is people waiting behind me, I hand over big bills just so I don't make people wait behind me. I don't like to be rushed, so I can't stand and fish the exact change calmly. Better wait for it so it's not my fault. lol
2. I change positions constantly :) Mostly lying face down then face up and then some sprawling would be good too.
3. 2%
My Q's
1. Do you ever save the last book in the series, you know it will be awesome, but you don't want to part with the characters just yet?
2. Do you think I should ignore my McDonald's craving right now and just skip it?
3. The last book you rated with 5 stars?
1. Do you ever save the last book in the series, you know it will be awesome, but you don't want to part with the characters just yet?Yes, although it boggles the mind as to why. I preorder as soon as the feature becomes available on Amazon. Am so excited to have it. When it appears on my kindle's home screen I sit on it...
2. Do you think I should ignore my McDonald's craving right now and just skip it?
Yes, exercise will power in all things with few exceptions. Usually sweets & books.
3. The last book you rated with 5 stars?
Surprisingly it's a YA series about aliens. What’s surprising about it is I don’t usually read about aliens nor am a fan of YA. I’m thankful I took the risk on this recommendation bc it’s an enjoyably light read. Genera: YA
Title: Obsidian (Lux #1)
Author: Jennifer Armentrout
My Questions
1. If you lived in a world of bartering, what current skill would earn your livelihood?
2. Should Armageddon come to pass which book’s version of this post-apocalyptic world would you choose to live in?
3. Would you classify your need to read as a carefree hobby or an addiction?
1. If you lived in a world of bartering, what current skill would earn you your livelihood?I'd have to say cooking. I'd prolly run a bed & breakfast or restaurant, and collect payment of things I need or need done for my services :)
2. Should Armageddon come to pass, which book's version of this post-apocalyptic world would you chose to live in? seriously this is a tough one. I'm thinking I'd prolly go with a indy author named E.E. Borton, and his version in 'without' where mother nature goes hay-wire and wipes off all electrical & battery powered things. Takes you back to a simpler time...if you can survive the harsh weather mother nature throws at you, it wouldn't be so hard to carry on :)
3. Would you classify your need to read as a carefree hobby or an addiction? well, considering i finish a book on average every day and a half, I'd have to go with addiction. my therapist thinks so too...
my questions:
1)do you like reading indy books, or stick to well known authors?
2)at least 3 books you can't live without reading once a year.
3)Sookie Stackhouse or Anita Blake & why?
Jeanny wrote: "1. Do you ever save the last book in the series, you know it will be awesome, but you don't want to part with the characters just yet?Yes, although it boggles the mind as to why. I preorder as soo..."
I recently got the lux series, but havent started it, can you tell me more about it? msg me if you like? like, why you liked it? I normally don't read alien things either, so i'm curious why you liked it...
Urban Fantasy
Books mentioned in this topic
Wool Omnibus (other topics)Daylighters (other topics)
- answer the three questions posted by the person before you
- ask three questions of your own.
I'll start with the three questions:
- where are you from?
- what is your favorite snack food?
- what are the three closest objects to you right now?