1. Do you remember how you developed a love for reading?
I honestly don't. All I know is that I've been reading since, like, um, forever. (I still even vividly remember reading picture books as a toddler.)
2. What are some books you read as a child?
Outside of textbooks, I remember reading a lot of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries. I also read some of Judy Blume's and Roald Dahl's. (And I secretly started reading Harold Robbins and Jackie Collins in the fifth grade. Heehee.)
My work desk at home, by the window. However, my favorite place to read is at this cafe near my house.
6. When do you usually read?
In the afternoon.
7. Do you usually have more than one book you are reading at a time?
I usually have more than one book lined up but seriously, I don't know how some people can read more than one at a time. When I don't like a book after the first couple of chapters, I usually just end up abandoning it entirely.
8. Do you read nonfiction in a different way or place than you read fiction?
I'm probably more attentive when it comes to the background of the work in terms of nonfiction books.
9. Do you buy most of the books you read, or borrow them, or check them out of the library?
It depends. If it's a new author, then I would usually check it out of the library first. If I'm impressed by the second chapter, then I'd go and buy it.
10. Do you keep most of the books you buy?
I usually just donate the relatively inexpensive ones to the public library when I'm done with them.
11. What are you reading now?
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (It's a bit thick but so far, I'm quite impressed by it.)
13. Do you keep a TBR (to be read) list?
Yuppers. (See my profile.)
14. What's next?
Um, dinner. Oh, to read? Um, Now Is The Hour.
15. What books would you like to reread?
All the Shakespeare plays that I read in college. Someday, when I'm old and gray. ;-)
16. Who are your favourite authors?
Novelists: E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edmund White, Paul Monette, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, GUstav Flaubert, Milan Kundera (and omg, so many others!)
"Writers" (encompassing short stories, non-fiction, and essays): Dennis Cooper, Ann Rule, Andrew Sullivan, Gloria Steinem, Kate Chopin (and omg, so many others!)
Poets: e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Edward Arlington Robinson, Edgar Allan Poe (and omg, so many others!)
Playwrights: Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Tony Kushner, Neil Simon (and omg, so many others!)
1. Do you remember how you developed a love for reading?
I honestly don't. All I know is that I've been reading since, like, um, forever. (I still even vividly remember reading picture books as a toddler.)
2. What are some books you read as a child?
Outside of textbooks, I remember reading a lot of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries. I also read some of Judy Blume's and Roald Dahl's. (And I secretly started reading Harold Robbins and Jackie Collins in the fifth grade. Heehee.)
3. What is your favorite genre?
Literary fiction
4. Do you have a favourite novel?
Oi! It changes. My most recent favorite is The Perfect Waiter by Alain Claude Sulzer.
5. Where do you usually read?
My work desk at home, by the window. However, my favorite place to read is at this cafe near my house.
6. When do you usually read?
In the afternoon.
7. Do you usually have more than one book you are reading at a time?
I usually have more than one book lined up but seriously, I don't know how some people can read more than one at a time. When I don't like a book after the first couple of chapters, I usually just end up abandoning it entirely.
8. Do you read nonfiction in a different way or place than you read fiction?
I'm probably more attentive when it comes to the background of the work in terms of nonfiction books.
9. Do you buy most of the books you read, or borrow them, or check them out of the library?
It depends. If it's a new author, then I would usually check it out of the library first. If I'm impressed by the second chapter, then I'd go and buy it.
10. Do you keep most of the books you buy?
I usually just donate the relatively inexpensive ones to the public library when I'm done with them.
11. What are you reading now?
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (It's a bit thick but so far, I'm quite impressed by it.)
13. Do you keep a TBR (to be read) list?
Yuppers. (See my profile.)
14. What's next?
Um, dinner. Oh, to read? Um, Now Is The Hour.
15. What books would you like to reread?
All the Shakespeare plays that I read in college. Someday, when I'm old and gray. ;-)
16. Who are your favourite authors?
Novelists: E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edmund White, Paul Monette, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, GUstav Flaubert, Milan Kundera (and omg, so many others!)
"Writers" (encompassing short stories, non-fiction, and essays): Dennis Cooper, Ann Rule, Andrew Sullivan, Gloria Steinem, Kate Chopin (and omg, so many others!)
Poets: e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Edward Arlington Robinson, Edgar Allan Poe (and omg, so many others!)
Playwrights: Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Tony Kushner, Neil Simon (and omg, so many others!)