forest_choir | Books meme

1. Best book I read last year –
Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care by Jennifer Block

2. A book I’ve read more than 3 times – Magic’s Price by Mercedes Lackey

3. Your favorite series – the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian

4. A guilty pleasure book – Exit To Eden by Anne Rice
(Very far outside the realm of my experience, but fascinating all the same.)

5. A book that makes me happy –
Passalong Plants by Steve Bender & Felder Rushing

6. A book that makes me sad – Wicked by Gregory Maguire

7. Most underrated book – Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
(I’ve never been sucked into a book-universe so quickly.)

8. Most overrated book –
May I say the Twilight series, even though I’ve not read them?

9. A book I thought I wouldn’t like but ended up loving –
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

10. Favorite classic book – Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

11. A book I hated –
Hedda Gabler by Ibsen (I know it’s a play, but I still hated it.)

12. The first novel I remember reading –
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

13. Favorite writer – Charles de Lint

14. Favorite book of my favorite writer – Someplace To Be Flying

15. Books that should be on a required reading list –
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

16. A book I would recommend to an ignorant/closed-minded person –
The Celluloid Closet by Vito Russo

17. Favorite quote from a book - "In five years the penis will become obsolete." – the epic first line of Steel Beach by John Varley

18. A book that disappointed me – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

19. Favorite book turned into a movie –
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

20. Book turned into a movie and completely desecrated –
The Man Without a Face by Isabelle Holland

21. Favorite book from my childhood –
A Woggle of Witches by Adrienne Adams (awesome art!)

22. Book that made me fall in love with reading –
Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner
(This is the play that helped me learn how to read plays.)

23. A book I’ve wanted to read for a long time but haven’t –
The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

24. A book I wish more people would’ve read –
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

25. A character I related to the most – Samwise Gamgee

26. A book that changed my opinion about something –
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (It didn’t so much change my mind as it did open it to things that were going on while I was still just a high school student.)

27. The most surprising plot twist or ending –
short story The Faerie Cony-catcher by Delia Sherman

28. Favorite Title - Repent, Harlequin! Said the Tick-Tock Man

29. A book that makes me cry – Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey

30. My favorite book of all time – can’t pick…

Bonus questions!

Favourite "childrens" book discovered as an adult:
June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett & Ron Barrett

Favourite book for adults discovered as a child:
Grimm's Fairy Tales