1. Which book are you currently reading?
Moby Dick.
I have a few others that are lying about that I can pick up when or if I need a change, though.
2. What book did you read last?
Err... *tries to remember which one it was* (I tend to read many books simultaneously.) I think it was Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf.
3. What book are you planning on reading next?
I have The Scarlet Letter waiting for me, as well as Don Quixotte. A few others that I don't have to hand right at this moment. Eventually I'll brow-beat myself into reading Proust. ;)
4. Do you own most of the books you read, or do you borrow them from a library?
I own them. I end up paying the price of the book in library fines anyway because I always forget to return them on time. (Out of sight, out of mind)
5. Who was your favourite author when you were a child?
Only one? Poop to that, I say! There was Beverly Cleary, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Gordon Korman, Jean Little, Judy Blume, Madeleine L'Engle, Carloyn Keene (yes, I read Nancy Drew, bite me), Robert Louis Stevenson, Enid Blyton, L. M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Roald Dahl... argh! Too many to name.
6. What were some of your favourite books when you were a child?
The Chronicles of Narnia, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, A Wrinkle In Time (the entire series by Madeleine L'Engle, really), From Anna, The Neverending Story, Harry's Mad, Treasure Island, The Castle In The Attic, Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, Little Women, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... *sigh* So many books, so little time...
7. Which literary character would you like to take out on a date and why?
Hrm. Just on one date? I can think of a few.
Bertie Wooster. He's a twit, but he's an educated twit, and I think we'd have lots of fun and have lots of things in common to discuss.
Meg Murry (from A Wrinkle In Time et al.). She's not gay, sadly, but I empathise with her on many levels, and I want to ask her what it's like to make a tesseract. :)
Marguerite St. Just. I want to ask her how the Hell she didn't realise her husband was the Scarlet Pimpernel, since she's supposedly the "most brilliant woman in France." I mean, sheesh! Then we'll have a lively debate and then I'll molest her thoroughly. ;)
8. Which author would you most like to have a 'one-to-one' with?
Hmm. I think it would have to be Shakespeare. So many questions still unanswered!
9. Which fictional character would you most like to have a 'one-to-one' with?
Erk. I think Bilbo Baggins. I bet he'd be a fascinating conversationalist.
10. Which literary character would you least like to be stranded on a desert island with and why?
Emily of New Moon. She'd be mooning about (no pun intended) with a stricken expression half the time, and the other half of the time she'd be scribbling frantically in her notebook with melodramatic phrasing and flourishes.
11. Which character would you most like to be stranded with?
Okay, barring the people who might magically or otherwise whisk me away... *refrains really hard from saying Captain Jack Sparrow* ... umm... Do you know? I can't think of one. They're all kind of dysfunctional and would get on my nerves after a while.
12. In which literary/fictional location would you most like to live?
In a Jane Austen novel. I'd be independently wealthy and have nothing to worry about except the person I was going to marry.
13. Which is the best TV/film adaptation of a book you have seen? Why?
Hrm. Obviously LoTR is right up there (Peter Jackson) barring some unforseen disaster in December. Otherwise? The first Harry Potter wasn't bad. The Sharpe Series was very well done by ITV. The BBC did some great interpretations of Sherlock Holmes (hurray for Jeremy Brett, the only actor who ever *got* Sherlock Holmes), Albert Campion, Lord Peter Whimsey, etc. in their Mystery series.
14. Which is worst TV/film adaption of a book you have seen? Why?
Oh, geez, I couldn't say. So many mangled adaptations, so little time...
15. What film adaption do you actually like more than the book?
None. Some were pretty good, but so far no movie has struck me as being better than the book if I've seen and read them both.
16. What book do you like better than the film adaption?
All of 'em.
17. What are your top 5 favourite books?
I'll give you my top five for the day. But that's stretching it. Even so, I'm likely giving you only five authors I really really like off the top of my head. I have more than five favourites. Not to mention that I have favourite books according to genre. This is an unfair question. You've been warned.
The Life of Pi
Mrs. Dalloway
Watership Down
The Sun Also Rises
Solomon Gursky Was Here
18. Who is your favourite author?
Oh no you don't! If I can have five favourite books, then I can have five favourite authors. Again, subject to change in about five minutes if I feel like it. This is another unfair question.
Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen
J. R. R. Tolkien
Mordecai Richler
Victor Hugo (I keep forgetting to include French authors in these things —damn!)
19. What is the most memorable line delivered in a film?
What does this have to do with books? Anyway...
"You do know how to whistle, don't you Sam? You just put your lips together... and blow."
20. What is your least favourite book and why?
Feh. Err... I don't usually finish books I don't like. Umm... *thinks really hard* Oh! I know! "Elminster: The Making of a Mage" is definitely two hours and a half of my life I'm never going to get back. Thanks a lot: I was trying to repress that memory. :P
21. If your life was a book, which author would you choose to write it?
Virginia Woolf. She had insight into the human (and female!) mind I've never encountered in any other author. She also knew first-hand what it was to be mentally ill and to feel perpetually separated from the world by a glass partition. She rocks my world.
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