Literature Meme
1) What author do you own the most books by?
It’s totally Francine Pascal. I own most of the Sweet Valley High Series.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
That’s kind of a weird question. I guess I own a few copies of Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry. Oh, and I have two copies of Wifey by Judy Blume.
3) Did it bother you that both of those questions ended with prepositions?
Yeah, a little.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
- Marcus Flutie from the Jessica Darling novels
- Henry DeTamble from The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Fred and George Weasley from the Harry Potter series
4a) What fictional character would you most like to be?
It’d be kind of awesome to be Hermione Granger. I’d also settle for Sookie Stackhouse. Is that weird?
4b) What fictional character do you think most resembles you?
It’s totally Jessica Darling from Megan McCafferty’s series. I just reread the entire series, and it’s uncomfortable how closely I identify with her sometimes. I also see myself in Tibby from Ann Brashares’ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Finding My Voice by Marie G. Lee might teeter near the top of the list. Princess Furball is probably the picture book I’ve poured over most.
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Oh, Christ. I don’t know. I was neck-deep in my non-ironic SVH obsession then. Probably something from the Alice books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.
8.) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
So many things. Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughn was phenomenal. I couldn’t put it down. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by e. Lockhart was great, too.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
The Portable Dorothy Parker.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
I’m so unqualified to answer that question that I’m not going to even attempt to respond.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
The Jessica Darling series. It needs to be done, for real.
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
A Girl Named Zippy. Any attempt would just ruin it.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I’ve definitely dreamed about Marcus Flutie before, but I’m not sharing the details.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker “I’m a Douchebag” Max.
15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
How are we defining difficult? I’ve never made it through the Bible, even though I’ve tried more than once. I find Hemingway to be absolutely unbearable. But the hardest time I’ve ever had with a book I had to finish? Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
That’s a weird question. I don’t know. I’ve seen MacBeth, Romeo + Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew…
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
The Russians. I really enjoy Nabokov. I’m going to get through Tolstoy at some point in the future. I swear it.
18) Roth or Updike?
Yeesh.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Double yeesh.
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare by default.
21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen FTW.
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
I’ve never read The Catcher in the Rye. I read a lot of YA fiction. I don’t get this question.
23) What is your favorite novel?
Oh, it’s like my Sophie’s Choice. The Handmaid’s Tale by Magaret Atwood? I don’t know.
24) Play?
The Taming of the Shrew is pretty awesome. I also really like Wicked. Whatevs, don’t hate.
25) Poem?
Dorothy Parker’s Unfortunate Coincidence. Emily Dickinson’s I’m Nobody. ee. cummings’ i like my body when it is with your.
26) Essay?
I don’t have a good answer for this one.
27) Short story?
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson.
28) Work of non-fiction?
Why We Read What We Read by Lisa Adams, A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
29) Who is your favorite writer?
Dorothy Parker.
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
David Sedaris.
31) What is your desert island book?
Just one? The Portable Dorothy Parker. Sensing a theme?
32) And … what are you reading right now?
- Harry, A History by Melissa Anelli
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart
