YA Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction discussion

I'm stealing this one from another group!

The point of this discussion is to get to know each other a little better. One person asks a question - the next person answers it and follows up with their own question. The questions can be as simple or complicated as you like and they can be, but don't have to be, book related. We are here to have fun, so try not to ask anything too personal that might make people uncomfortable.

There are only two rules.
1: You cannot ask a yes or no question. That is too easy and it doesn't get people talking.
2: Don't ask the same question twice.

Feel free to put your two cents in on previously asked questions along the way, as long as you continue to ask questions, do not repeat, and keep the game flowing. Hopefully we'll all get to know each other a little better and maybe make a couple new friends :)

I'll go first
TTPBM: What is your favorite movie?

My favorite movie is...wow I have alot but I have to say Dawn of the Dead and Breakfast Club.

TTPBM:What is your favorite book you have read this year?

You're going to make me choose one?! Oh man, this is hard. Umm...but I have to say Across the Universe. It was amazing and I can't wait for the sequel!

TTPBM: What is your favorite holiday and why?

All of them. Lol. But I guess I'm going to say Easter. I love the meaning of this particular holiday and I love the pastels and spring colors...it makes me feel warm (especially in all this cold). Plus I love dressing in really pretty, girly dresses. Haha.

TTPBM: Who is your inspiration/who do you look up to the most?

Oh, Geez.

Okay, kind of personal, but I don't mind.

My son is my inspiration. I want to do good and be successful for him, to give him all the things my parents couldn't since there were so many of us growing up.

TTPBM: If you could live any where is the world, where would it be?

I would love to live in Ireland! It's beautiful there and I love it :)

TTPBM: Do you have any bad habits?

my sister would say i'm ocd...does that count as a bad habit? she says it's the worst thing about me...my obsessive need for everything to be organized and it's spot. i don't agree. :)

ttpbm: what character in a book do you most relate to and why?

I would have to say that I relate to Faith Sanders in the Shifters series. I'm not all badass like she is but I do understand family expectations and how overwhelming that can be. I can also understand her love for two completely different people for completely different reasons.

ttpbm: If you could have any career in the world besides your current one, what would it be?

I would love to be a marine biologist or an ecologist, because I love animals, but the school for that is crazy hard. So, I'm going to school to be a teacher. Don't worry, I love kids too!

TTPBM: Do you have any other hobbies besides reading?

I raise exotic finches from Africa, Asia, & Austrailia. I have anywhere from 100-200 at any given time.

TTPBM: What is your favorite season and why?

I love all the seasons, the snow in winter, the lightnings in summer and so on, I would miss any of them.

What are your favourite dishes?

My favorite dish, probably pasta with Alfredo sauce, or a good and juicy hamburger...yum!

TTPBM: If you could have dinner with any famous person, living or dead, who would you choose and why?

Lady Jane Grey, she was a queen at 16 for 9 days before she was locked up in the Tower of London by Bloody Mary. She was very intelligent for a woman of her age but lived such a horrible life. I always have found her fascinating

TTPBM: What do you collect?

To be honest, I don't collect anything. Perhaps I should.

TTPBM: Do you have a song that truly speaks to you? If so, how?

I haven't one such song and it would be so boring here to answer I collect books so I'd better go back to the question "If you could have dinner with any famous person, living or dead, who would you choose and why? "
Julia Balbilla! She was not only granddaughter of the king of Commagene, but - more interestingly for me - her maternal grandfather was the astrologer Balbillus, and probably she was an astrologer herself. She was also a poet and attendant of Empress Vibia Sabina.

In which historical age would you like to live?

I would have loved to live in the Elizabethan Era! I love the dresses from back then! Plus some many people I would have loved to meet.

TTPBM: If you could be transported to any time in the future, what time would you go to? And why?

When king Gesar/king Arthur or one of their ilk returns to clear up this mess.;)

Which animal would you choose as your totem?

ttpbm: what book could you just read over and over again?

Hmm...lets see...the only books I've ever read more than once are Graceling and Fire, but I could probably live off the Mortal Instruments if I had to! :)

TTPBM: What is your favorite dessert?

I'm just having white chocolate with orange zest and pumpkin seed and am quite happy with it :) but my absolute favourites are Esterházy cake (the walnut version) and tiramishu.

What kind of music do you like?

METAL! Megadeth, Metallica, Trivium, etc.

TTPBM:

What is your favorite board game?

Catan -- awesome game where you can change the board twenty different ways
ttpbm: What movie have you seen more than five times?

How to Train Your Dragon. I love it and totally can't stop watching it! It's completely amazing!

TTPBM: What is the best vacation you've ever been on?

Umm -- Acropolis in Greece or the Roman Coliseum -- can't choose.

TTPBM: What is your favorite world catastrophe you like reading about and why?

I always love me a zombie apocalypse! Haha just something about surviving in that environment...i don't know, i'm weird!

TTPBM: Are you an early bird or a night owl??

Definately a night owl. In fact I was up reading at 3:00 am the night before last. The Maze Runner in case anyone is curious.

TTPBM:
What is your favorite 4 legged creature?

I am totally a horse person! My horse is amazing, and I work at a horse camp...yes, I might be a bit fanatical haha :)

TTPBM: If you could have any mythical animal as a pet, what would you choose and why?

A Tibetan snow lion. Er... why not. I would be a princess then, isn't it? ;)

What would be the magical weapon of your choice?

A crystal ball. I'm passive aggressive and would use this power to know my future and how to destroy my enemies not yet revealed to me.

When is the last time you wore a leather vest or hot pants?

I wore hot pants for Halloween in high school one year. Not my best moment lol :)

TTPBM: How many pets do you have, and what are they?

Do you count children??? Cuz I have two...and sometimes I wonder if a pet would have been easier...hmmm. I'm mostly joking, I love my two pets :D

TTPBM: If you could enter into any world from any book, whick 'bookworld' would you most want to live in? And I mean living in that world, not neccesarily with those characters...so you can't answer like this..."I would live in TMI world because Jace is there"

Bethany, you crack me up lol :) you're only mostly joking?

I would live in the Seven Realms world. I've always thought it would be cool to live in a fantasy world, and I love Seven Realms the most!

TTPBM: What is the worst class you've ever taken?

A lit class at a community college where the prof cussed like a sailor in order to "get us used to it in literature." I think TV and movies has done that sufficiently, that you very much. After two days, I had enough and transferred to a university with enlightened professors.

TTPBM: What was your first car?

Paula, I can't stop laughing. :D I think I would have got along with your prof quite well. :D
I never had a car and won't have any. My parents' first one was a Wartburg Turist. ;)

Would you be a warrior or a witch?

A witch, totally. Because they have awesome powers!

TTPBM: what is the best concert (or any music show) you've ever been to?

Linkin Park with Metallica. AWESOME!

TTPBM: Who's your ideal fictional man/woman and why?

Anything by Jace in the Mortal Instruments books. Or any corny line about true love in any book! It's hard to only pick one!

TTPBM: Do you have any pets, and if so, what are they?

No pets right now but I've been begging my hubby for a ball python like my protagonist owns in my novel. He won't have it.

Ttpbm: what kind of cell phone do you use? Do you like it?

My husband keeps trying to pass off his old iphones on me to justify buying new ones. One of them gave up for dead almost straight away and I was without a phone for a few months. Now I've got a Nokia. Don't know anything more about it than that. I'm kind of wary of phones, especially iphones as their supposed to transmit all sorts of terrible wavelengths. (my husband thinks this is crazy.)

Ttpbm: If you could be anyone that is alive now for one day, who would you be?

LOL!! I would be Christian Bale's wife....hahahahaaaa.

ttpbm: What is your dream car?

One of the things on my bucket list is a FLYING CAR! I have to drive/fly one before I die. Do you think it might come true?

ttpbm: What's the most unusual beverage you've had?

Well, I like to mix all the different kinds of soda at fast food restaurants. That always gives me unusual beverages hehe :)

TTPBM: What is your pet peeve?

Ha! One day when I was a kid I cleared the dinner table and poured all the left over drinks (tea, coke, water, etc.) into a huge glass to take to the kitchen. My dad came in from the summer heat and saw it sweating on the table, thinking it was his from dinner, and drank down the whole thing. We laughed at him when he found out what it was.
My pet peeve when I was a teacher was the pencil-tapping thing kids love to do. I never told them, though, cause then they'd do it just to drive me crazy. I even have a character in one of my novels doing it to irritate a girl he likes.

TTPBM: What is your fav fast food?

Haha that's really funny Paula! I'm going to be a teacher so I'll keep that in mind. *Note to self-don't tell kids about pet peeves because then they will do it purposely*

Ohmygosh! In N Out is the best fast food restaurant ever! I'm super sorry for all you people who don't live in Southern California and don't have In N Outs. If you are ever here, make it a priority to stop at one! They have the best burgers and shakes!

TTPBM: What is your weird phobia?

*cries* I'm one of the losers who goes without In N Out!! But i've totally had it twice since i've been in cali...before that, it had been like 6 yrs...so sad.

I don't think my phobia is all that weird, however my husband says it's irrational. But I am TERRIFIED of spiders! I even squealed when I watched the trailer for Rio...there's this part where he turns around and there's a spider on his back. Sad, I know.

TTPBM: Tell us about the weirdest dream you ever had.

I had a dream that a clown was following me trying to get me to buy his balloon animal and I kept explaining that I had no money. He said I could pay with smiles but he started pinching me and it was annoying. I woke up with a headache.

TTPBM: Tell us about your best birthday or Christmas gift.

One year my mother passed down Grandma's sewing machine to me, it's a 1960s Brother sewing machine and with that Mom told me this little story about it being the only thing Grandma ever bought from a traveling salesman, and that to demo it he set up the machine and asked for a can lid, then he sewed right through it! The story which was full of little quiks Grandma had, was the best Christmas present I've ever had. My grandma had a stroke before I could know her, and had mentaly regressed to a child. By the time I remember her I was mental older then her, and she die not long after that. I've always wished to have meet her mental sound.

TTPBM: Whats your fav. color and why?

My favorite color changes on a regular basis, but I keep returning to red. It's very visceral and fierce-looking, which I really love :)

TTPBM: what is your opinion on fairy tale/legend retellings?

I love many of them, but not all of them. I like ones that keep the basics of the stories the same, but also make them different in a fun and unique way. I have read a few awful ones, so the good ones stand out really well for me.

TTPBM: What was the best book you read in the last year and what made it stand out to you?