#iamthebookworm

[myrpiafterhours]

Yes,I DO READ BOOKS!! But My real question to you is do you read books?? I realizes in this society or shall I say generation..ppl dont read books..To me personally thats pathetic but hey what do I know?!?!?! I hope ppl really just expand their minds and read..You never know what you might find..It might amaze you..#Myrpiafterhours #IAmTheBookworm #LoveMyBooks #LibraryIsMyGettaway #NewBookAlert #latepost #reneephotographyink🐼 #ILoveReading (at Arcadia, California)

[theitchofliterature]

I have been tagged by didyousaybooks!

Rules

1. Always post the rules

2. Answer the questions the person that tagged you asked, then write twelve new ones.

3. Tag twelve new people and link them to your post.

4. Let them know you’ve tagged them

Questions

1. What are you reading now? It is good?

Paula McClain’s The Paris Wife. It’s about Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, and I’m enjoying it a lot so far.

2. What is your favorite book cover? Did you like the book when you actually got to read it? (given that you bought it mainly for the cover)

Ooh, toughie. Although, if I had to choose, I’m very fond of my Penguin Clothbound Classics edition of Sense and Sensibility. Those covers are very well done, and as an Austen fan, I do love the story.

3. Which character do you think would be your best friend?

Oh wow. Um… I’m gonna do a best girl friend and a best guy friend just because. I’d honestly like to think that Hermione Granger and I would get along well enough. She very much reminds me of some of my closest friends who really balance out the friendship. Guy-wise, I think Ed Kennedy would be a great friend of mine. Whenever I read I Am the Messenger, there are just moments that I wish I could join in on, or those where I would have liked to have been there for him for the way I’ve been for friends of my own. 

4. Your favorite book series?

Can I do two? I’m gonna do two. Harry Potter and A Song of Ice and Fire. 

5. A book that you’d recommend to everyone?

Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent. For anyone craving contemporary over historical fiction, though, my go-to is Markus Zusak’s I Am the Messenger.

6. Who is your favorite female character? Why?

These questions are really making me think. Good grief. I’m a big fan of many an Austenian lady, but I’m ultimately going to have to go with Dinah from The Red Tent. The way Diamant just fleshes out her character is so rich and vibrant and beautiful, and to think that someone from history has been brought to life again through literature as much as Dinah is, it just strikes something in me. She is so human and she represents this ancient culture that I fall in love with over and over again every time I get to see it from her eyes. 

7. Do you love cats? (that’s a very important question)

I do!!! My dad is allergic to fur, so I never grew up with any pets, but I am completely set on having a Russian Blue cat someday, and I will name him Sebastian and he will be my kitten. He just better not get his claws into any of my books.

8. In which Hogwarts House are you? Think you belong? (you can take a test here if you want ;)

Hufflepuff. I have the greatest of badger pride and definitely feel like I fit the bill for the house. I’m very much a loyal friend. I believe in looking for the best in others, and that honesty is key. I am dedicated to my work, but easygoing. I also find that I relate to and gravitate toward people who are also of Hufflepuff-esque dispositions, though I do enjoy the dynamics of friendships and relationships with people who seem to fit more clearly into the other houses.

9. Which fictional character do you think you are the most alike?

You see, this is a question I’ve come across before, and every time I’ve encountered it, I always pull up blank. It’s not that I don’t find attributes in characters similar to ones of my own, or that I don’t identify here or there with certain ones—I just have never found a fictional character that I feel comparable to. Maybe it has something to do with being a non-fictional person, maybe it doesn’t, I’m not quite sure, really. 

10.  Do you own any bookish items, books excepted of course?

I’m afraid I don’t own a lot of book-related paraphernalia, unfortunately. I’d rather like to own a Hufflepuff scarf at some point, but the house colors are that of a school so detrimentally rival to my university that I would fear risking my peers’ wrath if I were to wear it about campus. Granted, my mother attended the rival school while my father attended mine, but still.

11.  Do you like to receive books as gift or do you prefer to pick your reads yourself?

Both. I do love choosing my own books, but on the occasion that I’ve been gifted books, they have been truly spectacular and from some of my dearest friends.

12.  What’s your favorite fairytale story?

Hans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina. It was one of the first fairytales I heard when I was younger, and has always remained a favorite. 

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My Questions

1. What’s that one book you’ve honestly tried to read and get into, but the spark just isn’t there?

2. Favorite non-fiction book?

3. A book that you’ve read at a family member’s suggestion—who recommended it, and did you like it?

4. Do you own a Harry Potter wand?

5. Which series did you prefer as a kid: Harry Potter, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Chronicles of Narnia, or Percy Jackson?

6. Grab the closest book to you. Turn to page 76. What’s the first line of dialogue on the page and what book is it from?

7. Favorite book-to-movie adaptation? Why?

8. What’s a book that you and your friends all really like?

9. Do you prefer to read outdoors or indoors? Why?

10. Do you ever read scenes aloud from books, just to see how they sound?

11. Dreamcast for your favorite book?

12. A fictional character you wouldn’t mind giving a smooch?

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The Tagged

1. booksarefriends

2. coolnerdyreader

3. abookblog

4. iamthebookworm

5. literatureismyutopia

6. novelnostalgia

7. pagesfordays

8. qualiteabooks

9. thebooker

10. wenchingwithshakespeare

11. wherethebookwormlives

12. book-wormie-friends