1. What author do you own the most books by?
Anne McCaffrey. One of my favorite authors since I was about 10 years old.
2. What book do you own the most copies of?
I try not to have multiples of the same title. I have too many books already. I know we have 2 copies of the last Harry Potter book because Andy and I wanted to read it at the same time.
3. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Justin de Quincy from Sharon Kay Penman’s mysteries, Remus Lupin
4. What book have you read more than any other?
Moreta by Anne McCaffrey
5. What was your favorite book when you were 10 years old?
The Talking Parcel by Gerald Durrell
6. What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
I don’t know about worst. Most disappointing was The Mysterious Benedict Society. Lost Interest: The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. Usually if it’s bad, I stop reading.
7. What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
One best? The Sanctuary books by Deanna Rayborn, several by Georgette Heyer, Jean Plaidy
8. If you could tell everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Ack. Hard to choose. Anything I have mentioned that you haven’t read.
9. What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
Les Miserables
10. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
French
11. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare.
12. Austen or Eliot?
Austen 100%.
13. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
The Great Gatsby. Seems like everyone has to read this and I managed to get by without it being required anywhere.
14. What is your favorite novel?
I don’t have 1 favorite. The things I re-read the most are Harry Potter, Anne McCaffrey, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Guy Gavriel Kay, Robin McKinley.
15. What is your favorite play?
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
16. What is your favorite poem?
Favorite poet: ee cummings. I think my favorite of his is
“somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond”
17. What is your favorite essay?
I am not sure I have a favorite.
18. What is your favorite short story?
I don’t read a lot of short stories either. A Sherlock Holmes, maybe.
19. What is your favorite non-fiction?
I love field guides. I don’t read a lot of non-fiction.
20. What is your favorite graphic novel?
Those Left Behind (Firefly)
21. What is your favorite science fiction?
The Hawk’s Grey Feather by Patricia Kennealy, The Summer Tree Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay (sci-fi/fantasy mix). Strictly science fiction I like Jack McDevitt.
22. Who is your favorite writer?
Just One?? I have mentioned quite a few.
23. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Stephanie Meyer.
24. What are you reading right now?
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
25. Best memoir?
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
26. Best history?
I prefer historical fiction. Anything by Sharon Kay Penman.
27. Best mystery or noir?
And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander, Joliffe Mysteries by Margaret Frazer, Brother Cadfael Mysteries by Ellis Peters
And what about you?
The Mother of the Artist is somewhat surprised at many common answers that are shared by The Artist and the Mother of the Artist…If the Mother of the Artist got tagged…which she will not.
My taste in books: influenced by my mother. My taste in music: blame my father. :)
re: Great Gatsby….you’re not missing anything. That was the novel that led me to drop the only English course I ever dropped in all of my years in college
I love Anne McCaffrey! I discovered Pern when I was 11 or 12 and got hooked right away. I collect her books. ^^ And I really enjoyed The Fionavar Tapestry. I’d love to read it again.