Ooh, a q & a where you q and I a!

[cairistiona7]

Copied this from engarian ! Thanks for digging it up from whatever corner of the Internet it was hiding.

Comment with the # (or a few numbers) you want me to answer.

(To make it easier for me and you, if you actually copy the number AND the query, I won't have to look everything up, and anyone else reading won't have to either. A win/win for everyone. In

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[shirebound]

Oooh, I really like these...

4. What is a book series that everyone else loves but you do not?

14. What book gives you happy memories?

[cairistiona7]

4. What is a book series that everyone else loves but you do not?

Game of Thrones. Or, at least I'm assuming I wouldn't love it, because I don't like huge long books full of violence and a bazillion characters and still less an entire series of them. I think I started the first one when I heard Sean Bean was going to be in the series and stopped it when his character died (should've seen that coming!)

14. What book gives you happy memories?

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. I have loved those since I was a small girl and still re-read "The Long Winter" every fall.

[shirebound]

should've seen that coming!

LOL!

Shiremom still watches Little House reruns EVERY DAY.

[cairistiona7]

I'm glad Shiremom enjoys the show. It took far too many liberties with the books for me to ever like it. I'd love to see a truly faithful version of The Long Winter but I doubt it'll ever happen.

[mrowe]

7. What is a book that you feel glad for not reading?
33. What is a book you read after seeing the movie/ TV series?

[cairistiona7]

7. What is a book that you feel glad for not reading?

Boy, there's a lot, I'm sure, but a few:

"13 Reasons Why"
"His Dark Materials"
All of the Game of Thrones books.
"50 Shades of Grey"

33. What is a book you read after seeing the movie/ TV series?

This one's easy: Lord of the Rings. I saw the movies and then had to read the books. I'd read "The Hobbit" waaaaaay back when I was about 11 or 12, but it didn't really resonate with me at that time of my life, so I never read any further until seeing the movies.

[mikononyte]

Your response to Game of Thrones is much like mine. I got the book because of SB in the TV show (not having seen it). Figured it has to be good, yes?

Um, no. Did not get past the first chapter of the first book. I classify Martin in the same category as Stephen King.* Deplorable.

*(mileage may vary)

[cairistiona7]

I'm not a huge fan of King, either. I haven't read anything of his past "The Stand" (I read his first 3-4 books back in middle school in my "ooh, horror, cool" stage), aside from trying to read "The Dark Tower: Gunslinger," which wasn't horror but was... completely incomprehensible, at east to me. Overall, he's just too dark and violent for my tastes.

[mikononyte]

3. What is the oldest book you have ever read? (Based on its written date)

19. Have you ever read a book set on another planet? What is it?

Bonus question:
30. What book are you planning on buying (or borrowing) next?

[cairistiona7]

3 - oldest book: I suppose Beowulf, though obviously the copy I read wasn't very old! If you're asking what actual book have I held in my hands that's the oldest, probably original Tarzan books that were my father's (that my mother, when I went to college, apparently gave away in a fit of downsizing, because they disappeared and I know *I* didn't get rid of them

[imbecamiel]

Ooo, this is a fun one! Let's see, doesn't look like anyone's asked these yet:

15. What book made you cry?

26. What is your favourite non-fiction book?

27. What is your favourite children’s/middle-grade book?

[cairistiona7]

15 - book that made me cry: Most recently, "Boy's Life" by Robert R. McCammon. There was a chapter that just flat made me *ugly* cry, which is something that rarely happens. I love McCammon's writing. He knows how to get right at those ol' emotions

[layne67]

24. How many bookshelves do you own? ( You can post pictures, too. I love looking at other people's bookshelves )

44. What is a book that you love, but has a terrible cover?

Bonus : Which among the books that you own has the prettiest cover?

[cairistiona7]

Oooh, I have to put the answer in a post because it's too fiddly to try to put photos in a comment. :) I'll answer all three questions in the post, which I'm off to put together now.