Because I like to read {totally not blog related}

This post is about books. And me. And really has nothing to do at all with babies,

 but I will do what I want :)

But don't you worry, we will get back to our normally scheduled program in no time ;)

What are you reading right now?

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte

and

"Heist Society" by Ally Carter. 

Do you have any idea what you’ll read when you’re done with that?

Good question. I was thinking "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", but I'm an impulsive reader so this selection could change at any moment

What 5 books have you always wanted to read but haven’t got round to? 

Pride and Prejudice. 

A Wrinkle In Time

The Hobbit

Ender's Game

Anne of Green Gables

*All of these I have started at least twice but have never finished*

What magazines do you have in your bathroom/lounge right now?

Um, none, actually.

What’s the worst book you’ve ever read?

The first Twilight book, it was terrible so I didn't continue

Beowulf. Yuck.

What book seems really popular but you actually hated? 

Twilight. These books don't SEEM popular, they are.

And they are garbage.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

What’s the one book you always recommend to just about everyone? 

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Animals in Translation

anything by Sharon Creech

What are your 3 favourite poems? 

I love just about all of e. e. cummings' pieces

Tyger, Tyger by William Blake

and

Flower in the Crannied Wall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

oooh and Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Where do you usually get your books?

Amazon or Scholastic or Savers/DI for "real" books

Nook store for the nook ones 

Where do you usually read your books?

Bed, couch, car, classroom

though treehouse and hammock would be the most preferable

but not always (um, ever) accessible

When you were little, did you have any particular reading habits? 

I would walk to the library near my friend's house when we would play together pulling the little red wagon of books (just like in Matilda). 

And I'm such a weirdy that I would take my language arts textbooks home from grades 1-5 and read EVERY SINGLE story during the first week of the school year. 

I would wake up "early" on the weekends just to sneak in a quiet hour or two 

to eat up another chapter of my latest find

What’s the last thing you stayed up half the night reading because it was so good you couldn’t put it down?

"Heaven is Here" I read it in one sitting, from 6ish pm to 3ish am. a couple weeks ago. 

I had a massive headache for the next couple days from all the crying.

Have you ever “faked” reading a book? 

Yep. In school, because I had already read all the stories beforehand so I would stick another book inside the text book. I thought I was so sneaky.

Have you ever bought a book just because you liked the cover?

Oh, yes.

What was your favourite book when you were a child?

Loved the Roald Dahl books, Alice in Wonderland, 

Winnie the Pooh (the old school ones, not the Disney garbage), Golden Books, anything by Richard Scarry

 and any kid detective stories.

What books changed your life? 

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Heartbeat by Sharon Creech

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Artist's Way

Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

What is your favourite passage from a book?

A few:

When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him.
In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one."

-The Chosen by Chaim Potok

“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.
In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was...
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.” 

-Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
-Anne Frank

Who are your top five favourite authors? 

I take favorite to mean- "authors who have published multiple books/pieces 

and I liked their style so much I have read 90+% of their books/pieces"

Jerry Spinelli. 

Sharon Creech. 

Oscar Wilde (he only wrote one novel though, but his other works are awesome too)

J. K. Rowling

What book has no one heard about but should read? 

Dolly Parton's autobiography. That woman is a hoot!

What are your favourite books by a first-time author? 

Cheesy, I know but I have to say: Harry Potter. 

J. K. just kept getting better.

Shannon Hale was/is pretty awesome too. Her first book got a newberry nom.

What 3 books are you an “evangelist” for? 

anything by Sharon Creech including:

Walk Two Moons, Heartbeat, Granny Torelli Makes Soup, Love That Dog etc.

What is your favourite classic book? 

I've only finished a few "classics"

I did like "Of Mice and Men" Steinback and "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok