[How do you keep your books?]

I keep them in my closest with the rest of my skeletons. Though some of the older ones reside in my parents attic, I just left them there after I moved out. I sometimes like to look at the books I've read and sigh in satisfaction of having read that many.

[Names you can't pronounce.]

I have this problem, so I just kind of glaze over the name. I recently read the Millenium Trilogy (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo etc...) and there are a lot of swedish names in there that I'm just like 'say whaat?'

[How many books do you own?]

1100-ish is an insane amount. I have about 80 :| I've only really started having a passion for reading over the last 3 years but still it's a meager amount compared to 1100.

[When you finish a book do you ever feel like starting the book again]

When I was a kid I would re-read a book but not nowadays. Especially not straight away, I plan to read the Hunger Games again but not for a while. I feel like if I'm re-reading a book I'm missing out on another great book that I haven't read yet.

[Influential characters]

I read The Vampire Lestat and loved his character, wouldn't say I'd love to be him because he's not a completely moral guy but he does have some qualities that I would aspire to be like.

[*Results* - Your 'Top 5' Childrens'/Young Adult books]

Mine are:

 

'His Dark Materials Trilogy' by Philip Pullman

'The Hunger Games Trilogy' by Suzanne Collins

'Watership Down' by Richard Adams

'Chronicles Of Narnia' by CS Lewis

'Peter Pan' by J M Barrie

[The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins]

I loved this series! I cannot wait for the films. I think Jennifer as Katniss is a good pick, not sure about the guys though as I haven't seen them in anything.

[Books that made you cry]

A crack in forever was the saddest book I've ever read. I love to find books that have sad endings, I'm not sure why

[The future of books?]

Personally I think the future of printed books is quite grim. With the addition of videos pictures and sound coming to ebooks in the future the younger generation coming through will have a much ricer experience with reading books. They'll come a time when they'll say things like "you read books on paper!?"

 

You look at the decline of tapes and record players and you don't think the same thing will happen to books? Maybe people who have only read paper books such as ourselves will continue to but the younger generation with their ipods, ipads and ipids (whatever one of those is) will embrace ebooks.

 

In 50 years time I don't think there will be a bookshop open in your town. Sad but true.

[Do you read reviews before you purchase a book]

I read reviews thoroughly from a variety of different sources. There's nothing worse than not doing checking the reviews and getting a quarter of the way into the book only to give up - it feels like such a waste of time. I'll read the plots from many people just to see if it's my kind of thing.

 

Having said that sometimes I'll go blindly into a book if I've heard that it's a fantastic book, then I won't read the synopsis from either a person or the back of the book. I'll just jump straight into it on faith that it really is a fantastic book. I did that with The Hunger Games and a few other books and most of the time I find it highly rewarding.

[Sad/Thought Provoking/Romantic Books]

I have a couple of suggestions.

 

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

This fits all of the criteria. Probably my favourite book of all time. If you haven't read it yet, I strongly recommend this one.

 

A Crack in Forever by Jeannie Brewer

Such a compelling love story.