Aug 27 2008
Reading Questionnaire
I saw this in a Sunday Salon post at Lesa’s Book Critiques, and thought it would be fun to do.
On your nightstand now: Defining Moments in Books, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, and Essays of the Masters.
Book you’ve “faked” reading: I’ve never intentionally done this, but I’m not sure if I’ve actually read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, or only part one, since I’ve seen the movies umpteen times.
Book you’ve bought for the cover: The Sense of Paper by Taylor Holden
Favorite book when you were a child: Too many to name them all! First one that comes to mind is From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler by E.L. Konigsberg
Book that changed your life: The Bible
Favorite line from a book: “The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book.” from The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
Top five favorite authors: Leon Uris, Athol Dickson, Lisa Samson, Wendell Berry, Jane Austen
Books you recommend as regeneration when people say, “I’m bored by almost all contemporary American writers.”: That Distant Land by Wendell Berry
Book you can’t believe that everyone has not read and loved: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Book you are an “evangelist” for: Absolutely anything written by Wendell Berry. Oh, and Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset.
Book you most want to read again for the first time: Trinity by Leon Uris. Absolute favorite - love it every time I read it, but the first time was magical.
