Sunday Stealing

Sunday Stealing

1. Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews?

A. Anything in the horror genre.

2. If you could bring three characters to life for a social event (afternoon tea, a night of clubbing, perhaps a world cruise), who would they be and what would the event be?

A. Winnie the Pooh, Jo March, and Stephanie Plum. I believe we'd have tea with lots of honey for Pooh.

3. You are told you can't die until you read the most boring novel on the planet. While this immortality is great for awhile, eventually you realise it's past time to die. Which book would you expect to get you a nice grave?

A. War and Peace. (I don't really know.)

4. Which book have you pretended, or at least hinted, that you've read, when in fact you've been nowhere near it?

A. Catch 22.

5. As an addition to the last question, has there been a book that you really thought you had read, only to realise when you read a review about it/go to 'reread' it that you haven't? Which book?

A. My Life, by Bill Clinton. I must have thumbed through it but I apparently didn't read it.

6. You've been appointed Book Advisor to a VIP (who's not a big reader). What's the first book you'd recommend and why?

A. What is she a VIP of? That matters. However, I think I'd recommend On Becoming A Writer, by Dorothea Brande, to almost anyone, because it has a lot of lessons in it about self-awareness and understanding the world around you. Everyone needs to know how to write decently, regardless of career choice.

7. A good fairy comes and grants you one wish: you will have perfect reading comprehension in the foreign language of your choice. Which language do you go with?

A. Italian.

8. A mischievous fairy comes and says that you must choose one book that you will reread once a year for the rest of your life (you can read other books as well). Which book would you pick?

A. Lord of the Rings.

9. What's one bookish thing you 'discovered' from book blogging (maybe a new genre, or author, or new appreciation for cover art-anything)?

A. I discovered that I really don't care for highbrow and overblown literary fiction. I'm supposed to like it but I really don't.

10. That good fairy is back for one final visit. Now, she's granting you your dream library! Describe it. Is everything leatherbound? Is it full of first edition hardcovers? Pristine trade paperbacks? Perhaps a few favourite authors have inscribed their works? Go ahead-let your imagination run free.

A. It would be full of hardbacks with some kind of dust covers, all in acid-free paper. It would have lots of nonfiction books, old and new, as well as every top 10 novel ever written, except for porn or horror genres.

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