tiredofthesilence:
Stealing some questions about books from The Irish Times:
What was the first...
Stealing some questions about books from The Irish Times:
What was the first book to make an impression on you?
Heidi
What was your favourite book as a child?
The Adventure Series by Enid Blyton
And what is your favourite book or books now?
top 10:
Ulysses by James Joyce,
Letters of Katherine Mansfield Vol. 2 (ed. Middleton Murry)
EM Forster - Where Angels Fear To Tread + Howards End
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence + The House of Mirth + Ethan Frome
Next by James Hynes
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan.
What is your favourite quotation?
Last paragraph of The Dead by James Joyce.
Who is your favourite fictional character?
Leopold Bloom
Who is the most under-rated Irish author?
Emer Martin
Which do you prefer - ebooks or the traditional print version?
I do both - as a bedtime reader, Kindle is often preferable to heavy books. Experientially, reading feels the same on both, though I enjoy the tactile pleasures of a stack of books.
What is the most beautiful book you own?
What book changed the way you think about fiction?
Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield was my gateway to the classics.
What book influenced you the most?
Loved the James Stephens story A Glass of Beer so much I had to share it, thus beginning my short librivox career.
What book would you give to a friend’s child on their 18th birthday?
Mansfield’s collected stories.
What book do you wish you had read when you were young?
The Age of Innocence.
What lessons have you learned about life from reading?
Whatever gets you true.
Which writers, living or dead, would you invite to your dream dinner party?
Vonnegut & Joyce.
What is the funniest scene you’ve read?
The Citizen in Ulysses - throwing a biscuit tin at poor Bloom:
-ByJesus, says he, I’ll brain that bloody jewman for using the holy name.
What is your favourite word?
Dyoublong
If you were to write a historical novel, which event or figure would be your subject?
A party at Garsington - Woolf, Lawrence, Strachey, Huxley, Mansfield.
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Several on my list too: Heidi, Enid Blyton Adventure Series, Miss Brill and Olive Kitteridge, but I'm working my way through Ulysses over the years. I would include Breakfast in Babylon, and the prophetic Baby Zero by Emer Martin.
