Read-a-thon #1 - Bookish Questions

[Katie]

So this is a game we'll live since we all live talking about books. It is pretty simple: 

1. Person 1 asks 3 bookish questions.
2. Person 2 answers the questions
3. Person 2 then asks 3 questions of their own 
4. Person 3 answers Person 2's questions
5. Person 3 then asks 3 questions of their own

and so on....

Each person's answers and new questions should be in the one post. And the same questions can be asked more than once if you like, to give different people a chance to answer (although not every set of questions should be the same, obviously). 

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3 questions to begin:

1. What is the best book you've read so far this year?
2. Are you a member of any other Goodreads groups? If so, which is your favorite (besides us, of course!)?
3. What is your favorite way to read books (e.g. audiobooks, ebooks, hard cover)?

[Sophie]

1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
2.Yes, but I don’t have time to participate in any of them because of my travels, maybe later in the year
3. Ebooks are the most convenient, but I love audiobooks

My questions
1. What is your favourite genre?
2. If you could have a chat with any author (dead or alive), who would it be?
3. Where is your favourite place to read?

[Michelle]

1. What is your favourite genre?
Historical Romance *blushes*

2. If you could have a chat with any author (dead or alive), who would it be?
Jane Austen ♥

3. Where is your favourite place to read?
My comfy chair or in bed.

My questions:
1. Are you doing any other reading challenges this year?
2. Do you purchase your books or use the library?
3. What is your all-time favourite book?

[Rachel]

1. Psychological thrillers, or contemporary
2. Jodi Picoult
3. In my room

My questions:
1. What key words in a synopsis would make you immediately pick up a book/add it to your TBR?
2. Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction and why?
3. If you could recommend just one book that you'd want everyone to read, what would it be?

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

I see there was a bit of cross posting so I'm going to answer Michelle's question's and then re-post Rachel's.

1. Yes, I'm also doing Popsugar and Back the Classics.
2. I do purchase books sometimes (mostly used or cheap kindle books), but the majority of my reading material comes through the library.
3. HAHAHAHA! Let's say Jane Eyre and Neverwhere and Cinder are all somewhere in the top ten and leave it at that.

My (Rachel's) questions:
1. What key words in a synopsis would make you immediately pick up a book/add it to your TBR?
2. Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction and why?
3. If you could recommend just one book that you'd want everyone to read, what would it be?

[Edie]

1. Comparisons to books by authors I love would make take a hard look. Recommendations from certain authors would also pique my interest.
2. Generally I am a fiction reader, it is often easier to consume. But I like memoirs and do read nonfiction.
3. That changes from time to time. Last year it was The Hate U Give. This year I am recommending Where the Crawdads Sing. Also, what I recommend depends on who I am recommending a book to.

1. Are you a member of a book club? If so, how are your books selected.
2. Who are your favorite authors?
3. What is the best book you have read this year?

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

1.) Nope, no book clubs for me.
2.) Agatha Christie, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Jane Austen.
3.) I haven't even read that many books yet and it's still hard! I'll probably go with The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.

1. Do you tend to read mostly series or mostly stand-alone books?
2. What's the worst book you've read so far this year and why?
3. Roughly what percent of your books come from the library?

[Ann]

1. Do you tend to read mostly series or mostly stand-alone books?
I really love series books and read mostly them

2. What's the worst book you've read so far this year and why?
The Smell of Other People's Houses because it was super boring and felt like a children's book

3. Roughly what percent of your books come from the library?
About 80%

1. What book are you looking forward to reading?
2. How often are you disappointed with a books ending?
3. Do you ever read out loud?