Nicked from lunamoth42

1) What are you reading right now? Cape Perdido by Marcia Muller and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling. I've also got bookmarks in 2 mystery anthologies & The Essential Rumi.

2) Longest book you’ve ever read: Uther by Jack Whyte. 808 pages.

3) Strangest title of a book that you’ve read: Erm... So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish? I think that might be the strangest I've read.

4) Stupidest ending of a book you’ve read: I can't recall. I know I've read a few groaners, but they were so long ago.

5) Which literary character have you related to the most? Well, there are days when I feel like Tess of the D'Urbervilles. :-p Other than that, maybe Kinsey Millhone, from Sue Grafton's novels.

6) Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction? Fiction. Though I do have a load of nonfiction, and when I have a chance, I like to dip into it.

7) Did you have a series of children’s/young adult books that you once enjoyed? Oh, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Walter Farley's Black Stallion books... loads.

8) Can you enjoy reading the source book after seeing the screen adaptation? Yep, because the book is usually better than the movie anyhow.

9) Have you ever read a novelization of a movie or TV show? Erm, yes... yes, I'm afraid I have. Too many, really.

10) Book that "turned you on" the most, erotically speaking: Can't think of any. I don't go in for erotica, at least none that's been published. I suppose No True Gentleman by Liz Carlyle was pretty sexy. That one, I guess.

11) Is there a real-life person that you’ve read more than one book about? Can't say as there is. I've read Angela's Ashes, but haven't made it to 'Tis yet.

12) Book that everyone’s read but you: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. I've already been warned off by folk who've wasted good reading hours on it.

13) Favorite "classic" writer/novelist: Just one? Nope, can't do just one: Shakespeare, Dickens, Hardy, Austen, Joyce.

14) Favorite contemporary novelist (let's say 1950's on): Kazuo Ishiguro, David Eddings, PD James, Michael Ondaatje.

15) Favorite short story writer: Edward D. Hoch, Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury.

16) Favorite columnist/journalistic writer: Does Dave Barry count now that he's retired?

17) Favorite poet: Yeats. And Shakespeare.

18) Favorite guilty pleasure book or series: Probably M. C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth mysteries, or anything by Agatha Christie. You know you're not supposed to like them, but you do.

19) Favorite book by written by a famous actor or musician: Erm, well, you do realize that most books "written" by people like that aren't? I'd have to say Who Murdered Chaucer? by Terry Jones. Is he famous enough?

20) Author whose work you once enjoyed but no longer do: Lillian Jackson Braun. The Cat Who... books might've once gone under guilty pleasures, but I've gone right off them now. And Sara Paretsky--she was good before she got preachy.