Five Book Questions
I found this on Booklikes and I thought I’d try to answer the questions.
1. Who is your fictional crush?
Very tough question, but I think I’ll pick Faramir in LOTR.
2. Who is your favourite fictional villain?
Another tough question. In general I have to admit that I usually prefer fictional villains in tv or movie format, so I can crush on the actor. In fiction, I don’t usually do that. However, I could mention either Chauvelin in The Scarlet Pimpernel or Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes. They’re interesting, if not crush material.
3. Do you have a preferred reading genre, and if so, what is it?
I think I’ll have to go with fantasy, though I also love mysteries/puzzles.
4. Your favourite book this year/last couple of years?
Again very hard to answer. In the past years or so I’ve discovered a number of new authors and depending on the genre and the age group the book is intended for, I have several different favourites. Gregory Frost’s books Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet are among my all-time favourites and so are Garth Nix’s books about Sabriel. Lately I’ve also discovered the YA fantasy author Frances Hardinge. But again, I have too many favourites, even just newer ones.
5. One of your favourite book covers?
I don’t think I can pick only one. In general, cover art is very important to me and many otherwise fantastic books may fail in that area.
Books…
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Books are perfect…
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
– Stephen King
A place of refuge…
“This is a library. A place of refuge. Libraries should be full of dusty old books and nooks and corners and places to hide away in.”
— Edward Ferrars, Sense and Sensibility (2008)
The Bookshop…
The Bookshop has a thousand books,
All colors, hues, and tinges,
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges.
– Nancy Byrd Turner
Read…
“Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.”
– R.L. Stine
Good reader…
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sorcery of books…
That is the sorcery of books…. All people can be wise by reading of books.”
– Puck of Pook’s Hill, Rudyard Kipling
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Books…
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
—Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
