Interview The Person Below You

[Kristie, Moderator (Retired)]

Thank you to Margarida for starting this game.

This is a simple game. You must to answer to the three questions that the person above asked you and then you do another three questions so that another person can answer.

Let's start with John's last three questions from the old thread:

1. If you could be one character from a book who would it be and why?
2. Who do you think is the best actor in a movie based on a book?
3. Name a book you’d like to see made to a movie?

[Papaphilly]

Kristie wrote: "
1. If you could be one character from a book who would it be and why?
2. Who do you think is the best actor in a movie based on a book?
3. Name a book you’d like to see made to a movie? .."

1) Huck Finn. Something about this character and when I read it as a boy captured my imagination.

2) Jack Nicholson character McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the perfect job.

3) Spring-Clean by Proxy would make a very good and intelligent film. This book by an independent author is one of those rare finds.

My Questions:

1) Do you have a book that everyone thinks is amazing and it makes you go "I do not get it"?

2) Are you widely read or prefer to stick to a small area?

3) Do you take things at face value or do you look it up for yourself?

[elietty]

1. ummm...there was a time when everyone was talking about john greens books and they are good but not my favorite... i guess i had high expectations cause of what everyone said.

2. i dont understand this question but if you are talking about books then no i usually read fiction or spiritual and i dont tend to read anything else.

3. usually i belive people so i take things at face value. i never think someone is lying but i guess they could be.

my questions

1. what book made you cry the most and why?

2. what is the meaning of life? is there even one?

3. if you could only read one book forever which is it?

[Michael]

1. The Bible? Or maybe the most recent compilation of the IRS tax code. I don't cry much.

2. 42. Probably not.

3. Eesh. The Bible, probably.

1. What's your favorite genre?
2. What's the average wingspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
3. What's the most memorable book you read in recent memory?

[[deleted user]]

1. YA fantasy and Historical fiction
2. My english is not good enough to even understand what I'm being asked by this lol
3. They both die at the end or maybe Salt to the sea

my questions

1. What actor would you choose to portray your favourite book character
2. What is your favourite book cover
3. Buying or library

[Tiffany]

1. From my current read, The Woefield Poultry Collective, I'd choose a sweet and wholesome looking actress for Prudence, that still has that high end New York runways beauty. Chloe Grace Moretz maybe?
2. My favourite book cover atm is The symbolism is perfect.
3. Library 100%

my questions

1. Favourite 2019 Book
2. Most anticipated from your TBR
3. What is a genre you don't usually choose from?

[Kate]

1. Favourite book I've read in 2019?? The Institute by Stephen King - my first 2019 book, it's a hard one to follow!

2. The Tattooist of Auschwitz & it's sequal, they're just waiting to be read!

3. I don't tend to read Romance.. I find them super boring and predictable, change my mind though! ha

My Questions;

1. All time Favourite book?
2. Favourite book buying site?
3. Favourite childhood book?

[[deleted user]]

1. Ooo that's tough. Probably Caraval maybe???

2. Barnes & Noble or Wonder Book

3. Either The Poky Little Puppy or Small Brown Dog's Bad Remembering Day

My Questions- :)

1.Favorite Disney movie?
2.Favorite Marvel character/movie?
3.Favorite movie/show adaption of a book/series you have read?

[Robynne]

1.Favorite Disney movie?
2.Favorite Marvel character/movie?
3.Favorite movie/show adaption of a book/series you have read?

1 - National Treasure 1 and 2.
2 - Captain America - the first Captain America Movie - the one where he was frozen and woke up in the future.
3 - 84 Charing Cross Road - my most favourite book (memoir) and movie.

My questions.

1 - Favourite Fantasy Book and/or series?
2 - Favourite Biography/memoir?
3 - Favourite Historical Fiction book and/or series?

[Vikkram]

1 - Favourite Fantasy Book and/or series?
2 - Favourite Biography/memoir?
3 - Favourite Historical Fiction book and/or series?

1 – Lord of the Rings.
2 - Inside the Third Reich – Albert Speer.
3 - The Name of the Rose.

My questions.

1. Favourite novel by an Asian or African author?
2. Favourite Paranormal or Supernatural novel/series?
3. Favourite Occult non-fiction book?

[Vanessa]

1. Favourite novel by an Asian or African author?
2. Favourite Paranormal or Supernatural novel/series?
3. Favourite Occult non-fiction book?

1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
2. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
3. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo

My Questions

1. First book you remember reading.
2. Best movie adaptation of a book.
3. Without reading the description, what attracts you to a book?

[Mads]

1. First book you remember reading.
2. Best movie adaptation of a book.
3. Without reading the description, what attracts you to a book?

1. Black Beauty
2. Casino Royale !!!
3. Beautiful & colourful cover art <3

My Questions
1. The book you are most excited to read this year
2. Worst book you've ever read
3. Are classics overrated?

[Jan]

1. The book you are most excited to read this year
2. Worst book you've ever read
3. Are classics overrated?

1. Shadow and Bone
2. Milkman
3. Yes


My Questions:
1. Book you've read more than once
2. YA book you enjoyed
3. Least favorite classic you've read

[Papaphilly]

1. Book you've read more than once
2. YA book you enjoyed
3. Least favorite classic you've read

1) Dandelion Wine
2) The Maze Runner
3) On the Road

My questions:

A) Have you ever seen a movie that was better than the book?
B) Do you prefer series or stand alone novels?
C) Do you prefer to own or borrow from the library?

[Jan]

A) Have you ever seen a movie that was better than the book?
B) Do you prefer series or stand alone novels?
C) Do you prefer to own or borrow from the library?

A) No. But I do slightly prefer the TV series Bosch over the book series.
B) Series
C) Borrow

My Questions:

1. Book you like to read to children?
2. Favorite book you've read so far this year?
3. Book you enjoyed that you had to read for school?

[melissa]

Hmmm. Perhaps the second part of the Percy Jackson series. I just felt very... bored. Like there wasn't anything new and interesting.
I don't listen to a lot of audiobooks... hmmm the first book of the Secret series by pseudonymous bosch.
I have always been a reader for as long as I can remember... however the first chapter book I remember reading is one of the Rainbow Magic fairy books... Selena the Sleepover Fairy!!

1)why do you like to read?
2) what do you think when others say they don't like reading?
3)least favorite book?

[Suzanne]

I learned to read at a very young age and never stopped. It's a way of escaping reality. I guess it comes with being an introvert.

I'm (sadly) prejudiced against people who say they don't read and I try to convince them that it's because they never found the right book. I'm the "not fun person" who tries to convert non readers. I can't help it, it's in my blood.

I'm not a fan of John Grisham. I have not read one of his books that I truly liked, let alone loved. That's what comes to mind right now.

1) What is THE book everyone should read?
2) What is your favourite book read in the last 2-3 years?
3) Do you read in more than one languages?

[elietty]

1) the power of now by eckhart tolle
2) the book thief for sure. Such a powerful book.
3) no, but i want to start reading in spanish.

what book had bad reviews but you loved?

weirdest book youve ever read?

which do you prefer audiobooks, ebooks, or physical books?

[Julie]

1. I don't know about official reviews, but the Thirst series by Christopher Pike had a bad rep among my peers. i read all 5 and LOVED every single one.
2. Spaceman of Bohemia is probably up there, but so is Ishmael. i loved the latter so much
3. physocal books always have a place in my heart, but i have been getting into ebooks because of the environmental impact

what is the one book that makes you cry everytime?

when you read, do you like to drink/eat/listen to music or not?

if you could slap one foctional character, who would it be? and why?

[Papaphilly]

Julie wrote: "what is the one book that makes you cry everytime?

when you read, do you like to drink/eat/listen to music or not?

if you could slap one foctional character, who would it be? and why?
..."

I do not have a book like that one.

No, I only read.

I would slap the hell out of Holden Caufield. He irritates me like few others.

1) What is the book that you have not read that would surprise everyone?

2) What genre were you once hooked on but now wonder why?

3) With all of the self publishing, do you think the product is better, worse, or no different?

[Sha]

1. I haven't read most classics. People IRL see me read a lot so they get surprised when I tell them I haven't read most of the books they have actually heard of.

2. I'm not really at the wonder why stage, but I have read so much historical romance that the brain candy comfort food bits of it (banter, characterization) are no longer enough to satisfy me. I need more meat in my HR these days.

3. I'd say no different, except that there's a lot more of it by volume. I've read a bunch of self-pub and indie authors whose works are really really good, and I've been disappointed with stuff traditionally published authors have written. So eh.

Qs

1. Is personally liking the character when you read the book important to you? Or are you likely to be more interested in how horrible of a person they are?

2. What's your opinion on the YA genre? Not YA books, but the fact that all of these varied stories are grouped under one genre. Is that confusing? Imprecise? Or do you still find commonalities?

3. Have you ever seen a love triangle you've actually liked and (if so) have you figured out why?

[Stephanie]

Sha wrote: "1. I haven't read most classics. People IRL see me read a lot so they get surprised when I tell them I haven't read most of the books they have actually heard of.

2. I'm not really at the wonder ..."

1. I do not have to like a character to love a book. Sometimes it's a nice change of pace to be passionate about hating a character.
2. I think YA is very broad and does encompass a lot of other genres. I wouldn't say it was confusing, but it does cover a variety of topics. I do find some commonalities with how the characters view the world. As I get older, I realize that I used to think the way YA characters did, but not so much anymore.
3. I love the love triangle in the Stephanie Plum series. It's been a triangle for 26 books. I don't ever want her to pick one guy because then the mystery of if/when she will have a fling with one of them would be gone.

Questions
1. What book made you into a reader?
2. Do you finish all books you start or say "Life's too short to read a bad book"?
3. How hard is it for a book to rate as a 5 star to you?

[Seth]

1 .What book made you into a reader?
A:Not one book in particular. When I was younger I was fascinated by history so I read a load of historical books and I have to credit R.L. Stine as his books (especially Goosebumps) were some of the first I remember devouring.

2. Do you finish all books you start or say "Life's too short to read a bad book"?
A:I almost always try my hardest to finish any book I am reading even if it takes me forever because I think I always hold out hope it will get better even if it doesn't.

3. How hard is it for a book to rate as a 5 star to you?
A:I am pretty liberal with my stars if I enjoyed the book and did not feel it was a waste of time I have no problem giving it five stars, not everything has to be a masterpiece.


Questions
1.Have you ever (physically) picture a character totally different than how are described?

2.What book or series is a guilty pleasure that you hardly admit to anyone ever reading?

3.Have you ever read a classic book that everyone raves about and thought it was the worst thing you ever read. What book and why?

[Sha]

Answers:
1. Not particularly? It might be because I don't usually visualize characters in my head though. They are mostly amorphous blobs of traits and associated emotions.

2. Uhm there are a bunch of plotless indie gay romance novels that I wouldn't deny reading if anyone asked me about them but which I wouldn't bring up in casual conversation either. They are more often than not really predictable but also? Comfort food. So soothing.

3. I have never finished The Catcher in the Rye and I'm pretty sure I don't wanna. The same goes for The Fountainhead. I can't remember specific problems with either of the them (except that the latter was really needlessly long and that factored into my irritation); just that fact they they were very much unengaging.

Qs:

1. If you had to pick just one genre to read for the rest of your life which one would it be?
2. Hardcovers, paperbacks, ebooks or audiobooks?
3. Name one favourite character and the work (book, film, tv etc) they are from.

[Tracy]

1. Historical Fiction
2. I read them all. I prefer e-books at this point for convenience reasons and I adore audiobook format as well. If I had to choose one above the others for the sake of answering the question: e-books
3. Mackayla Lane from Darkfever (book)

Questions:
1. What is your all-time favorite book?
2. Is there a book you love everyone else seems to hate or at least not love the way you do?
3. What book would you recommend to me a total stranger to start our bookworm friendship?

[Blue]

1.It's all about smiles by Ranjani Iyer Arumugam
2.The Aryavarta Chronicles
3. You mean like us??
Definitely Leave it to Psmith by PGWodehouse

questions
1.Why do u read?
2. How has reading books affected your character?
3. Suggest a book you would present your child?

[Sha]

Answers:

1. That's... a really hard question to answer. I think the simplest answer is "for fun"? But my reading tends to sometimes be far more analytical than it should be if I'm reading /just/ for fun. Alternate answers may include "I love seeing different perspectives and seeing how imaginative people can get!" and "I just like to do it and I don't know why but if you ask me to stop I'm going to cry."

2. This is a pretty loaded question, to be honest. And again, hard to answer. I can't really tell how reading has affected me, because it's such a large part of my life that I would not be /me/ without it. So separating distinct traits is a bit of a pickle. And frankly, I'm more concerned with the potential negatives of reading- it has made me more introverted, somehow both more apathetic and emotional, and more inclined to get really bored really fast when the actual world moves on at the glacial pace it normally does. It concerns me, and thinking about it induces anxiety and the only way to get rid of that anxiety is to read something till I calm down. I mean, I can dispassionately judge this as addictive behavior when I'm in an even-keeled state of mind, but reading is what generally makes me even keeled so it's a huge cyclic thingy.

Oh. Also, reading a lot makes you overthink things. A lot.

3. I don't have children and don't want any; thank you very much. But if I had to get my nephew into reading longer books I'd probably try giving him The Enchanted Wood; the story is really simple and easy to understand while being imaginative, and kids generally haven't developed the reality check adults have which make them scoff at fantasy stories.

If the child is just starting out reading I'm going to shove the Amar Chitra Katha books at him because they are fun and colorful and easy to read and if you teach a child reading is stressful from the start they aren't going to want to do much of it.

Questions:
1. Name a book you used to love but have mixed feelings about now, and why.
2. In your opinion, is there any movie/series/other video adaptation that actually improved on the book?
3. Is reading your favourite activity? Is not, what is?

[Jan]

1. Not a particular book but I used to read many mystery/romance books. But I got sick of the drop dead gorgeous characters disliking each out, lusting after each other and ending up together, the perfect couple.

2. I like the Bosch TV series a little more than the books.

3. Orienteering is my favorite activity.

Questions:

1.What book are you currently reading and why?

2. If you created a comic, what power would your hero have?

3. What author would you like to meet?

[Co Su]

1. not currently reading but next read would be "This is going to hurt". It has been on my tbr for a long time since I wanted to have a real look into medicine since I'm in a dilemma for choosing a course
2. invisibility, but i don't know how that can be illustrated lol
3. For now, maybe Amy Harmon

Questions:
1. What is your favorite book and why?
2. If there ever is a next life, who or what person do you want to be?
3. What is your least favorite book and why?

[Haleema]

1:my fav book/series is probably throne of glass cuz its badass
2:a person who is in gods' good books :)
3:i dont think i have a least fav book actually probably macbeth from school... because we did it in school 😎

Questions
1: if you had 1 power what would it be
2:who is 1 book villain character you secretly like?
3:how many times (aprox) hv you judged a book by its cover?
xxx

[Sha]

Answers:
1. Either super-speed or some form of time-freeze or time-reset/travel.
2. It's not a secret but I am very fond of the horrible chaotic psychopathic gremlin that is Xue Yang from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.
3. Not that many, I think. I'm easily enthralled by shiny covers but I do mostly read ebooks so the cover is not as much a draw as it would be for physical books. So uh- ten ish?

Questions:
1. Name a story you like to read about but would definitely not want to be a part of.
2. Least favorite protagonist from a book you otherwise liked.
3. Has the pandemic affected your reading habits?

[Papaphilly]

Questions:
1. Name a story you like to read about but would definitely not want to be a part of.
2. Least favorite protagonist from a book you otherwise liked.
3. Has the pandemic affected your reading habits?

Answers:

1) Alien invasion or end of the world stories. I hope I am long dead if it ever happens

2) Holden Caufield, I came to appreciate the novel very much, but I just hate the character. I have always wondered if that was by his choice.

3) Oh yes, I have read part of one book since this thing started. I am always exhausted due to the nature of my job and mentally drained. Just not interested in reading right now.

Questions:

1) Do you think you will travel for pleasure within the next year?

2) Have you lost anyone you know to the Pandemic?

3) Are you in a lock down area and how do you see the other areas as compared to your experience?

[anise]

Answers:
1) Probably.
2) No, not yet. God willing, not in the future either.
3) I am not in lock down since there aren’t as many cases where I am. Other areas are severely more impacted.

Questions:
1) If you could (or HAD to) burn one book, which would it be?
2) How many books in a series is just right?
3) Which book has the best cover in your opinion?

[Monica]

Answers:
1) Any book with a racist/misogynistic content. Enough bringing misinformation to people!
2) Trilogies are my favorite! A book for beginning, middle and end - just enough.
3) I personally don’t like it when covers have opinions on it, be it in the front or back - I like to be attracted by the story only! So I’ll chose: the cover with no opinion on it.

Questions:
1) Which book character do you most relate to?
2) What is your favorite book cover?
3) What is the most touching book you ever read?

[Jay]

Answers:
1) Annabeth Chase
2) The Unwanteds
3) The Fault in Our Stars

Questions:
1) What is a book that's made you cry?
2) Have you read a book with a dragon in it?

[Laureen]

1. What is the book that's made you cry?
Ans: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - when Dobby died!
2. Have you read a book with a dragon in it?
Ans: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(yes, I do read books other than Harry Potter, but these both fit!)

Questions:
1. If you were going to be trapped on an island for a. year and could bring only one book to read, what would it be?
2. What is your favorite book from childhood?
3. What do you look for when choosing a book?

[Haleema]

Answers:
1: hOw To bUilD A rAfT
2:The very hungry catterpillar.
3: probably just genres im not really picky.

Questions:
1:what is/was your favourite Sci-Fi book?
2:What book have you read so many times and want to read again in future?
3:do you fangirl/boy? how?

[anise]

Answers:
1) I'm not a big fan of sci-fi but The Giver quartet is really good
2) Harry Potter, hands down!!
3) I fan girl a lot by screaming in caps about how good this movie/show/book/song is or just talk nOn-StOP about it with my family and friends.

Questions:
1) Which genre is overrated to you?
2) Which genre do you wish people wrote more in?
3) Which genre do you wish never existed?

[Papaphilly]

Questions:
1) Which genre is overrated to you?
2) Which genre do you wish people wrote more in?
3) Which genre do you wish never existed?

Answers:
1) Mysteries are overrated to me. They mostly seems to need a trick to work and that drives me nuts.

2) Science Fiction. Can always use another great story....

3) Dino porn. Yes it is a real thing. No I have never read any and yes I am basing this out of ignorance. I don't care.

Questions:

1) Have you ever read one of the big selling flavor of the year books and go "I don't get it"?

2) Have you ever read a favorite book again and go I do not like this at all and wonder why you ever liked it?

3) Have you ever had a friend or yourself consider them well read only to find all that was read was trash novels?

[Murat]

1. What is your favorite biography?
I think that is one type of books I can't touch. It is like how some people can't watch horror movies or some people doesn't like opera, that is biography for me.

2. What's a story you've read whose villain is so likeable you find yourself rooting for them a little bit?
I think I liked Alvin the Treacherous the most as a villain in How to train your Dragons books by Cressida Cowell, mainly he got a brilliant sense of humour and got also a story attached to him.

3. Do you have a go-to book recommendation that might not necessarily be your favorite book, but no matter the genre preference of the reader you feel comfortable just telling everyone they should read?
Most of the classics would fall into this category but I won't do that. Instead I will go for The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

1. After you finished reading the last page of a book, how would you like to feel the most?
2. Do you share a good book you read or keep it to yourself?
3. If you could send someone you don't like into a book as one of the characters, which book and which character would be your choice?

[Abby]

1. After you finish the last page how would you like to feel most? I would like to feel fulfilled like the ending was perfect for the book and I wouldn’t want to change anything.

2. Do you share a good book you read or keep it to yourself? I rate it on goodreads so any of my followers can see that I liked it. But in real life none of my friends read so I don’t bother sharing with them.

3. If you could send someone you don’t like into a book as one of the characters which book and what character would it be? I would send them into the book City of lost souls as Isabelle Lightwood because I feel like all the characters in that book go though a lot and Isabelle tries to stay strong for everyone even though she has her own struggles.


My questions ⬇️⬇️

1. If you could change a scene in a book which scene from which book would you choose and why?
2. When looking for new books to read what specific plot types do you look for/stay away from?
3. If you could give any character advice at any point in a book who would you choose and what would you tell them?

[Leena]

Hi all
1. if there is one scene I would like to change it would be the marital rape scene from The Duke and I by Julia Quinn. even if in this case it is the wife who rapes her husband it put me off the book totally.

2. what do I see before reading a book?
Well actually 2 factors play an important role. The first is a curiosity factor. I don't do series in order and generally pick up based on a reference in another book. The second factor happens to be the goodreads rating and comments. I specially love to read those that have a truly poor rating to see if I agree with the opinion or not. I am.always very wary of those books that have a consistent 4 star rating.

3.The character I would love to give a piece of advice would be to Gladys Burger from Elise Sax's book An Affair to Dismember. I'd ask her to just grow up.

My questions.
1. Do you love to read the entire series or just pick and choose.
2. What really turns you off in a book?
3. Your favourite author and book

[Papaphilly]

Leena wrote: "1. Do you love to read the entire series or just pick and choose.
2. What really turns you off in a book?
3. Your favourite author and book .."

1) If I choose to read a series, I read the series in order from first to last.

2) Poor Writing. I can live with anything else, but not poor writing.

3) Ray Bradbury, Stephen King and Terry Pratchett are all favorites. As for books, I do not have a favorite. However, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Fahrenheit 451, and The Hobbit, or There and Back Again all have special places in my heart.


Questions

1) Has the Pandemic changed your reading habits?

2) Do you read outside of your usual genre?

3) Do you read one book at a time or a couple at the same time?

[Laureen]

1. Yes! Even though I have been working throughout, I have been home more in the evenings, so I have been reading a lot more. My goal for the year was 25 books and I'm currently at 23.

2. Yes, while I love current fiction, I do like to mix it up with psychological thrillers, historical fiction, some non fiction (Erik Larson) and some light fantasy. I try not to read the same type of books over and over again.

3. Sometimes one, sometimes two and sometimes 3 (that is my max) with one actual book (hardcover or paperback, one on kindle, and one on audio

Questions:
1. What book were you not interested in reading, but when you did, you loved it?
2. What book were you excited to read and then were disappointed by?
3. Where is your favorite place to read?

[Gypsy]

1. waters edge...i thought it'd be too historically oriented but that was not the focus at all

2. albatros...the characters and plot were really flat

3. living room or on my porch when its not too hot/cold

questions
1. what do u like about reading
2. how often do u read
3. do u have anyone to discuss with what you read (a reading buddy)

[Leena]

1. Reading takes me to a special place. I love to lose myself in it. I call it my great escape .
2. I read a lot especially since my mobile has both my Scribd and Kindle on it. I'm pretty much reading on the go.
3. My daughters especially my older one loves to hear about all the latest books I'm reading ..what I think about them especially the characters. My younger one is constantly egging me on to complete my reading challenges and keeps track of them.

My questions are:
1. Who is your all time favourite hero? why ?
2. Who is your all time favourite heroine? Why?
3. The book you dnfed immediately and why,?

[Sha]

Answers:

Caveat: I have a lot of favourite protagonists and they are my favorites for very different reasons so a single favorite is hard to pinpoint. So I'll just go with earliest favourites.

1. Favorite Hero: Jake from Animorphs, mostly because he has such an excellent character arc and also because his relationships with the rest of his team are fascinating. There's also something about the common narrative of "this guy is the protagonist because we said he's the special one" being subverted by the text and characters openly acknowledging the Hero is not the best at most things but is also the only one willing to shoulder the responsibility and the only one diplomatic enough to make a roster of strong-willed characters get along. And the hero winning the respect because of those qualities. Idek man I have a lot of feelings about Jake.

2. Favorite Heroine: Keladry of Mindelan from The Protector of the Small. When I first read her books, I firmly decided Kel was the person I wanted to be when I grew up. I am now grown up, and Kel is still the person I want to grow up to be. She's a normal no-superpowered warrior in a fantasy medieval kingdom, who gets through the day with sheer grit, unyeilding stubbornness and applied courtesy and kindness. God, I love her so much.

3. Immediate DNF: Okay so here's the thing- I picked up Prince of Thorns knowing it was a dark fantasy with many disturbing themes and a fairly unsympathetic protagonist. I knew this. Nothing about the edgelord 14 year old killing people and raping women in the establishing character shot was you know- a surprise. I've actively hunted down and read dark stories (featuring both murder and rape more graphic than the scenes in this one) on purpose.

None of that made a difference to my absolute ennui. It was not that everything was horrifying, it was that the horror crossed the line into hilariously over the top and simultaneously left me with zero positive feelings about the prose and characters. The book had some interesting worldbuilding I really wanted to get to, but I ended up dropping it in half a chapter flat instead.

Questions:
1. Best (non re-read) book you've read in the first half of 2020? What about it did you like?
2. Worst book you read in the first half of 2020 and why.
3. How important are book covers to you?

[H.T.J.]

Leena wrote: "1. Reading takes me to a special place. I love to lose myself in it. I call it my great escape .
2. I read a lot especially since my mobile has both my Scribd and Kindle on it. I'm pretty much read..."

Answers:
1) My favourite one so far was Anne Frank Tagebuch as I think it is very touching and shocking at the same time.
2) So many XD Though the one I liked the least was Zorro from Isabel Allende, because, you know, you’re expecting a book filled with the adventures of Zorro and then it turns out you get to know every part of his history except his adventures as Zorro – because that’s where the book ends.
3) To be honest, very important. I know, I know! I shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but I think that the covers represent the content of the book and just generally show you what you can expect from it. For example, a book with a plain hard cover or one with a coloured soft cover make two very different impressions on me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t say that either of it is worse or better than the other, but in my opinion the cover does make a difference, it does make an impression on me, that’s why I actually do judge a book by its cover.

Questions :)
1. What book made you cry (a lot) and why?
2. What book was your favourite book in school?
3. If you could get to know one author (living or dead), which one would you choose and why?

[Sha]

Heh I mostly asked the cover question because I saw the cover to The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water and immediately fell in love with it. You're definitely not getting any judgement from me.

Answers:

1. The last book to make me cry ugly tears was Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. It had a LOT of tropes and plot points I got very upset about and then I hyperfixated on it.

2. Hngh. To be honest, my favorite book probably changed every week? I just got constantly delighted every time I discovered a new type of story and obsessed about it for a while before moving on to the next one. They were always sci-fi/fantasy books, though.

3. Probably Terry Pratchett. I love a lot of authors but Pratchett was the first author while made me hold my breath about how good his writing was. Once I got the the later Discworld books, anyway.

Questions:
1. Fanfiction. Do you read it, do you have feelings about it?
2. Favourite romantic relationship(s) you've read?
3. Favorite platonic relationship(s) you've read?

[Tammy]

1. I usually read what interests me. I am a introvert, I don't follow the crowd.
2. I guess Clair and Jamie in the Outlander series.
3. I don't really have a favorite, I guess I am going through a brain freeze.
Questions:
1. Do you reread?
2. Do you read a series straight through or space it out?
3. Do you have a favorite genre, if so what?