A Latter-day Bluestocking

1. What author do you own the most books by?   Jane Austen
2. What book do you own the most copies of?  Pride and Prejudice
3. Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?  Yes!
4. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?  Stephen Maturin
5. What book have you read the most times in your life?  probably Pride and Prejudice
6. What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?  Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R.Tolkien
7. What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?  Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
8. What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?  Room by Emma Donoghue
9. Brits or Americans?  Brits
10. Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?  Me
11. What book would you most like to see made into a movie?  None, they would just fuck it up!!
12. What book would you least like to see made into a movie?  Go the Fuck to Sleep
13. Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.  I dreamt of Winston Churchill and he told me that I should not be afraid.
14. What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?  The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Middle East Conflict.
15. What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?  The Rape of Nanking.  Actually, anything about Chinese history
16. What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?  “Titus Corialanus.”
17. Do you prefer the French or the Russians?  Unfortunately, the French.
18. Roth or Updike?  I don’t know who they are.
19. David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?  Sedaris
20. Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?  Milton
21. Austen or Eliot?  Really!!!!!  See questions 1, 2, 5, 21, 23, 29, 31, 32.
22. What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?  I would have to be on life support for there to be a gap in my reading.
23. What is your favorite novel?  Persuasion.
24. Play?  School for Scandal  Richard Brinsley Sheridan
25. Poem/Poets?  John Keats
26. Essay?  Do not know
27. Short story?  Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
28. Work of non-fiction?  The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
29. Who is your favorite writer?  Hmm, that’s a tough one.  I’m going to go with Jane Austen
30. Who is the most overrated writer alive today?  Anyone after 1951
31. What is your desert island book?  Pride and Prejudice

And … what are you reading right now? Mary Wollstonecraft:  A Revolutionary Life by Jane Todd and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft