1. Favorite childhood book?
Harry Potter…
2. What are you reading right now?
Brave New World, The Idiot and The Kreutzer Sonata
3. What books do you have on request at the library?
I’ve never used the library and probably never will.
4. Bad book habit?
bad book habits: I read too many books at the same time, it sometimes takes me months to finish a book (if I finish it) or I read non stop and finish it in a day (which is bad for my eyes), I obsess over writers and try to read their complete bibliography and then end up kind of hating them (if they weren’t that good, of course), I spend A LOT of money on books (I usually buy cheap second hand books but like A LOT)
5. What do you currently have checked out at the library?
None.
6. Do you have an e-reader?
Soon. I use my phone sometimes, though.
7. Do you prefer to read one book at a time, or several at once?
ideally, one, but you know… I just can’t.
8. Have your reading habits changed since starting a blog?
No, but I’ve read a lot more since I bought my Moleskine for books and I’ve heard about a lot of books thanks to the reviews on goodreads. Actually, thanks to goodreads I’ve read more than 50 books last year!
9. Least favorite book you read this year (so far?)
Little Birds by Anaïs Nin.
10. Favorite book you’ve read this year?
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
11. How often do you read out of your comfort zone?
I’ve been reading some graphic novels lately, but not too often.
12. What is your reading comfort zone?
anything except religious/too romantic/too cliché/moralistic books
13. Can you read on the bus?
That’s my reading spot.
14. Favorite place to read?
The bus, Starbucks or any coffee store.
15. What is your policy on book lending?
I want to lend the book more than the person I’m lending it to wants to receive it. But I hate if they take too long to give it back.
16. Do you ever dog-ear books?
I actually had to google this… and totally no, I never do that, there’s always something to use as bookmark! why would anybody need to do that?
17. Do you ever write in the margins of your books?
No. I don’t mind if people do it, though.
18. Not even with text books?
Yes, almost always with text books.
19. What is your favorite language to read in?
The language it was written on if it is English, Spanish or Italian, and English if it was written in any other language, unless I find it in Spanish first.
20. What makes you love a book?
The writing.
21. What will inspire you to recommend a book?
I don’t tend to recommend books.
22. Favorite genre?
I don’t believe in genres (?)
23. Genre you rarely read (but wish you did?)
Philosophy, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction…
24. Favorite biography?
I don’t thing I’ve ever read one actually! I’ve read a lot of autobiographies or semi autobiographies, though.
25. Have you ever read a self-help book?
No
26. Favorite cookbook?
I get my recipes from magazines.
27. Most inspirational book you’ve read this year (fiction or non-fiction)?
The Waves, I guess.
28. Favorite reading snack?
Coffee. I can’t eat while reading.
29. Name a case in which hype ruined your reading experience.
I don’t get why this happens to people. If I like or dislike something it’s because I’ve read it and have formed an opinion over it and nothing else matters! Although, I accidentally heard on TV the end of Harry Potter before finishing it… and it kind of lessened my enjoyment (but not enough to ruin it, of course)
30. How often do you agree with critics about a book?
I never read critic reviews.
31. How do you feel about giving bad/negative reviews?
I feel bad if the person is alive… and if I actually like him/her as person. So I probably just won’t write it or delete it after a couple of days.
32. If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you choose?
I can and I do. But I would love to be able to read in French and in Russian.
33. Most intimidating book you’ve ever read?
uhm, I don’t know
34. Most intimidating book you’re too nervous to begin?
Ulysses probably; it’s been there waiting for me to read it for a long time.
35. Favorite Poet?
I’ve only read poems by Oscar Wilde, Allen Ginsberg and Edgar Allan Poe and don’t care much for neither.
36. How many books do you usually have checked out of the library at any given time?
None.
37. How often have you returned book to the library unread?
….
38. Favorite fictional character?
Elizabeth Bennet, Ginny Weasley and the twins, Mrs Dalloway, Horacio Oliveira, Mary Lennox, Stiva, Briony Tallis…
39. Favorite fictional villain?
Voldemort, I guess.
40. Books you’re most likely to bring on vacation?
Anything I’m reading at the time or that I think I will enjoy.
41. The longest you’ve gone without reading.
can’t say
42. Name a book that you could/would not finish.
Could not but want to: Tropic of Cancer, 100 Years of Solitude, Lord of the flies, Sexus, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, True at first light, Sobre heroes y tumbas
Would not: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Sex and the City, Prague, Norwegian Wood, Narnia (the lion…), Merrick, My Dark Places
43. What distracts you easily when you’re reading?
My thoughts and if someone is speaking very loudly near me.
44. Favorite film adaptation of a novel?
Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, Persepolis, A Clockwork Orange (better than the book!), Let the right one in
45. Most disappointing film adaptation?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
46. The most money I’ve ever spent in the bookstore at one time?
more than I can pay
47. How often do you skim a book before reading it?
NEVER
48. What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?
If it bores me too much
49. Do you like to keep your books organized?
yeah, kind of.
50. Do you prefer to keep books or give them away once you’ve read them?
keep and sell if I really really disliked it.
51. Are there any books you’ve been avoiding?
The Lord of the Rings, I will have to read it someday…
52. Name a book that made you angry.
Perfume and The Great Gatsby
53. A book you didn’t expect to like but did?
I don’t read it if I don’t expect to like it…
54. A book that you expected to like but didn’t?
The Great Gatsby, The Old Man and the Sea, Perfume…
55. Favorite guilt-free, pleasure reading?
I read whatever I want to read guilt-free.
(Source: dancinguponthearchitecture)
