I've been tagged by the lovely la-la-la-lines in this question tag. I highly recommend checking out her wonderful tumblr!
It works like this:
1. Post the rules
2. Answer the questions that the tagger set for you, then ask new ones
3. Tag 10 people and link them to your post
4. Let them know you’ve tagged them
My answers:
Do you need to like/love the characters of the book you’re reading for you to like/love the book itself?
I do need to like the characters, but that doesn't mean I have to be fond of them, if that makes any sense. I need to find them interesting, but I don't have to like them for who they are.
Books or movies/TV shows?
If I had to pick one or the other, I'd pick books. However, I enjoy both.
What is your favorite summer tune?
I'm not sure. I did just discover the band Blondfire, though, and I like their song "Where the Kids Are." And anything by Vampire Weekend is always good.
What is the one place that you think you absolutely must visit before you kick the bucket?
Ireland. I'm more than half Irish and I just feel like I have some sort of a connection to the country.
What is your favorite first sentence of a book and why?
Oh, this one is hard. Of course, there's always the classic from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." But I'm also quite fond of the first sentence of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, because it made me laugh out loud in surprise: "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo." Oh, but I also love "All of this happened, more or less" from Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I find it so clever. And who doesn't love the opening sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice? "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." To be honest, I can't choose. There are so many great first sentences of books that I enjoy.
My questions:
1. What is your favorite nonfiction book?
2. What types of characters do you become most attached to?
3. What are you reading right now, and are you enjoying it?
4. Where do you go for inspiration?
5. Who is your favorite author?
And I'm tagging:
justcallmekiwi
karmannghiaburana
kisakon
thewolfvictorious
welcometogeektown
theliterategirl
starsfadingbutilingeron
ben-ftm
booklust
ladyliteracy
