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A to Z Reader Survey

Saturday, September 14, 2013



Authors you've read the most books from:
Douglas Adams, Jane Austen, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Neil Gaiman, C.S. Lewis, L.M. Montgomery, and William Shakespeare

Best sequel ever:
All of the Harry Potter sequels (I know that’s cheating)

Currently reading:
Arrowsmith, The Cuckoo’s Calling and Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Drink of choice while reading:
Usually either coffee or red wine.

Ereader or physical book:
Physical books all the way, but I’m finally used to occasionally reading on my kindle.

Fictional character that you probably would have dated in high school:
Quentin in Paper Towns or Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I love the quiet guys.

Glad you gave this book a chance:
The Sparrow, seriously it’s so good and the description of it makes it sound awful.

Hidden Gem book:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, shows the true meaning of endurance.

Important moment in your reading life:
Reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in high school and realizing how fantastic nonfiction could be.

Just Finished:
Re-reading American Gods

Kind of books you won't read:
Romance novels and modern political whining

Longest book you read:
Probably The Count of Monte Cristo or War and Peace.

Major book hangover because of:
The Harry Potter series, every time I read it I don’t want to read anything else.

Number of bookcases you own:
Oh man, nine bookcases including two massive ones that take up a whole wall.

One book you've read multiple times:
Ender’s Game

Preferred place to read:
Curled up on the couch with my pup.

Quote that inspires you:
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life…And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.” — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Reading Regret:
Not getting the chance to visit Oscar Wilde’s grave when I was in Paris.

Series you started and need to finish:
Sue Grafton’s alphabet series, I read one whenever I need a break from another book.

Three of your all-time favorite books:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Unapologetic fangirl for:
Neil Gaiman and Harry Potter

Very excited for this release:

Worst bookish habit:
Buying all of the books!

Xmarks the spot! Start at the top left of your shelf and pick the 27th book:
The Portable Dorothy Parker

Your last bookish purchase:
A gorgeous 1916 copy of A Girl of the Limberlost from Half Priced Books.

Zzz-snactcher. Which book kept you up way to late:
The Night Circus

Photo by moi. 

Reading the States: New Hampshire

Friday, July 27, 2012


State: NEW HAMPSHIRE

Fiction: 
- Sea Glass* by Anita Shreve
- A Prayer for Own Meany* by John Irving
- The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
- A Separate Peace* by John Knowles
- A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal by Joan W. Blos
- Our Town* by Thornton Wilder
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon* by Stephen King 
- The Night Strangers by Christopher A. Bohjalian
- Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
- The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott* by Kelly O'Connor McNees
- The Hotel New Hampshire* by John Irving
- The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
- Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

Nonfiction:
- Amoskeag by Tamara K. Hareven
- Following Atticus by Tom Ryan
- Inside Peyton Place by Emily Toth
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself* by Bill Bryson 

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State: 
- John Irving
- Jodi Picoult
- Elizabeth Yates
- Tom Eslick
- Grace Metalious
- Donald Hall
- Maxine Kumin
- Charles Simic

Authors Who Lived Here:
- J. D. Salinger
- Robert Frost
- Dan Brown

Great Bookstores:
White Birch Books 
*Books I've Read 

Photo by moi.