Reading is Sexy

1) What author do you own the most books by?JK Rowling's Harry Potter books. all 7.

2) What book do you own the most copies of?I don't own multiple copies of books...at least I haven't found a multiple.....

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?Most wisconsinites end sentences with prepositions, so it doesn't bother me

5) What book have you read the most times in your life?Gone with the Wind, Baby Farm Animals

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?Charlotte's Web

7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?Peter Gay's The Enlightenment.....it was rough going.

8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?Oh goodness, I can't pick just one. That'd be like eating just ONE m and m.

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? I dunno. So many are so great. Probably To Kill A Mockingbird. I would force NavyGirl to read Gone with the Wind.

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?Pope Joan

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie? Walden. SNOOZE.

14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?All the smut I have read. Lots of romance novels while laying out in the sun

15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?Dictionary of the Kahazars. As I Lay Dying. (My mother is a fish!) I loved both, but they were hard....lots of hours with the professor in office hours trying to figure out what they are saying.

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?French...they make better bread. .

18) Roth or Updike?Haven't read either..

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?Nope, not them either. .

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?Chaucer.

21) Austen or Eliot?These ladies aren't familiar.....I mean, I know them, just haven't read them.

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?The classics and the canon. Lots haven't been read.

23) What is your favorite novel?Gone with the Wind

26) Essay?I like Doris Kearns Goodwin...not too many essays, but the ones I have read are good.

28) Work of nonfiction?America's Women; 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroins.

29) Who is your favorite writer?JK Rowling...I love the imagery...also Phillipa Gregory (I Henry VIII!)

31) What is your desert island book?Phillipa Gregory's series.

32) And finally... what are you reading right now?The Pleasure Palace (I promise, it's not smut)


4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with? Rhett Butler....someone so rakishly handsome can carry me up the stairs and ravish me sometime!!!


10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature? I don't think I'm that well read to determine that.

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character. I once dreamt that books were illegeal....woke up in a cold sweat.

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? haven't seen anything obscure.

24) Favorite Play? Steel Magnolias, To Kill a Mockingbird

25) Favorite Poem? To my Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet....I read it to Farmer at our wedding

27) Favorite Short story? Not really a short story fan.

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today? Toni Morrison. Just don't like her.

Now....I tag two people.......

Green Girl in Wisconsin......I think that her personal library is going to be my lending library this summer....

AND.....

I'd like to hear what Navy Girl's SISTER has to say...I'm guessing she's a reader too!!!!!! Perhaps you could e-mail your answers to Navy Girl and she could let you do a "guest post".....OR, I guess you could just e-mail me the responses!!!! You pick!