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Title: For the Book Lovers

What's the last book you read?:	The Bookman's Promise
How was it?:	Pretty good
What's your current favorite book?:	A Cloister Walk
Who's your current favorite author?:	Sue Grafton
What's the first book you ever obsessed over?:	Alien (the novel from the movie)
Who's your favorite poet?:	Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost
Your favorite short story author?:	Poe
What's your favorite genre?:	Mystery
What's your least favorite genre?:	"Boy books" (Clancy, Hemingway, et al.)
What's your "comfort book"?:	Any female p.i. book
Who are your five favorite authors?:	Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Kathleen Norris, Kent Haruf, Anne LaMott
Do you ever skip to the end to find out what happens?:	Not usually, unless the book just sucks
What's the worst book you ever read?:	W-A-Y too many to list
The funniest book?:	One for the Money, by Janet Evanovich; or In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
The saddest book?:	The Book of Ruth, by Jane Hamilton
Has a book ever made you cry?:	Only a few hundred of them
What's the book you love to reccomend to people?:	anything by Bill Bryson
What's the first section you go to when you walk into a bookstore?:	...travel...or wherever they keep the crossword books
Do you buy books, or get them at the library or from friends?:	95% library, 5% purchased
What's the most you've ever paid for a book?:	$50 for some textbooks eons ago in college
Was it worth it?:	heh--probably, tho' I'm sure I didn't think so at the time!
Will you buy a book in hardcover or wait for it to come out in paperback?:	Depends on the use it will be put to. Novels, I can wait; reference stuff has to be hardcover
What's a book you bought on a whim, then regretted later?:	The Diana Gabaldon books; I still like them, but I don't need to own them!
How did you get turned onto your favorite book?:	My sister Lois recommended her
Do you/did you enjoy the short stories in English class textbooks?:	Yes.
What book have you read the most times?:	Alice in Wonderland
Do you ever finish a book and immediately start to read it over?:	Very infrequently anymore.
How do you feel about turning books into movies?:	Mostly it's a bad idea, with some exceptions.
What's the best book-to-movie?:	The English Patient
What's the worst book-to-movie?:	Most of the rest of them (almost all of Stephen King's!)
Have you ever gotten in trouble from reading when you aren't supposed to?:	Yeah. ahem
Have you ever made a new friend from noticing the book they're reading?:	...mmm, I don't think so...
Do you prefer books that take place in another world or time period?:	I don't prefer them; I like them, if they are well-written
If you could live in any book's "world", which would you choose?:	Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books
Who's your favorite fictional hero?:	Spenser (Robert Parker)
Who's your favorite fictional heroine?:	Amelia Peabody (Elizabeth Peters)
Who's your favorite fictional villain?:	Sethos (Elizabeth Peters)
Is there a book character that reminds you of yourself?:	Many, but parts of Amelia Peabody's personality is awfully similar to mine.
What book character do you hate?:	Captain Ahab (Melville) and The Old Man (Hemingway)
Have you ever, for any reason, dressed up as a character in a book?:	No. Ick.
Have you ever written fanfiction or done fanart?:	No.
Do you have a website dedicated to any of your favorite books?:	No.
Are you into any big-hype books, like Harry Potter of Lord of the Rings?:	Like the HP books. I have to vet them for my kid, of course!
What book you have with you/next to you right now?:	I'm sitting at my desk in the library. Do you really want to know??

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