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Where have I been?

Another fun book survey!

1) What author do you own the most books by?
I am going to guess Jane Austen...yeah, it's gotta be her.

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
The Complete Works of Shakespeare or Catcher in the Rye

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Yes. 

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre

5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Catcher, easily.

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
James and the Giant Peach

7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
I usually don't finish the bad ones. 

8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Gentleman and Players

9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Everyone should have read Catcher in the Rye at some point in their life.

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Jonathan Franzen

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
Gentleman and Players or The Corrections

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Something I stopped reading because it was bad.

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I had a dream that I wrote a book and got a huge advance.

14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Hmmm...I suppose Nicholas Sparks could be lowbrow, but Nora Roberts is pretty lowbrow too.

15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Crime and Punishment.  Awful.

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
O, which is a modern Othello.  Also liked it very much.

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Oh God, I would much rather read the French, and I hate the French.

18) Roth or Updike?
Roth.  Definitely.

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Sedaris.  Hilarious.

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
That's a really hard one for me.  I LOVE Shakespeare, but The Canterbury Tales was one of my all time favorites...gonna go with Will Shakespeare on this one.

21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen.  All the way.

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
The Babysitters' Club series.  Ugh.  But I was in 4th grade!  The most embarrassing gap (literally) in my reading is right now...since I finished the M.A., all I've wanted to do is watch Bobby Flay puree things.

23) What is your favorite novel?
Well, Catcher in the Rye, if you hadn't noticed.

24) Play?
Medea or Hamlet

25) Poem?
Anything by Frost, Auden, Whitman or Shakespeare

26) Essay?
All of Harold Bloom's

27) Short story?
Oh, such a great category!  "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Gilman) or "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (O'Connor) and "The Killers" (Hemingway) and "The Laughing Man" (Salinger).

28) Work of non-fiction?
Anything about Thomas Jefferson

29) Who is your favorite writer?
Hemingway

30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Dan Brown

31) What is your desert island book?
The Bible

32) And ... what are you reading right now?
Word Freak--it's about competitive Scrabble Players