4, 15, and 25
This ended up a little long, so it’s under a read-more. Big shocker there :P
4. do you like your name? is there another name you think would fit you better?
I do like my name! As a kid I felt pretty unique, I only ever met one other kid with my name (and it was spelt Corrie, so it wasn’t confusing or anything) and now after so long I can’t imagine being called another name. (My last name is another story, but I think anyone that knows what it is can understand how that story goes :P)
15. five most influential books over your lifetime.
Ooooooooo, interesting!
Well an obvious book is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the beginning of my obsession with the series as a child.
Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson was a book I was given as a kid by my aunt, it’s set in Vancouver/Victoria! It really grabbed my attention because I was at an age where I was starting to be aware of ‘the money situation’ and I understood the main character pretty well. It may have also been the first time I cried from reading a book.
The Bad Beginning (or maybe The Miserable Mill). The first Lemony Snicket book was just so enjoyable, and I was pretty obsessed with the very specific style Snicket/Handler was going for when he went past the events taking place and into his own narrative. I think that had an influence on how I write now. (The Miserable Mill had a cool hypnosis plot-line, I won’t go into why that was influential :P)
Then you’ve got The Pendragon Adventure by DJ MacHale, which was the next big series I got obsessed with. I think it helped a bit as I started to feel like I was in charge of taking care of everyone, to have a character that ended up in the same position, and to see his mistakes, how he cared for himself as much as he could.
I’m probably missing important ones, but I can’t think of any others right now, so 4.5/5 it is.
25. could you live as a hermit?
Probably not. Before I graduated high school I probably would have said yes, but at this point I just can’t see it happening.
