Monday, July 11, 2011

Book Survey



(stolen from After I Do and The Curious Pug)


Favorite book: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Least favorite book: Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
Book that makes you laugh out loud: Bossypants by Tina Fey
Book that makes you cry: Hmmm.... The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Book you wish you could live in: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Favorite young adult book: The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Book that you can quote/recite: How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Suess
Book that scares you: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Book that makes you sick: ?? Girl With a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson has some gross parts in it
Book that changed your life: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Book from your favorite author: Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Book that is most like your life: Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Book whose main character is most like you: Princess Leigh-Cherie from Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Book whose main character you want to marry: Mr. Darcy from Pride & Prejudice, of course!
First "chapter book" you remember reading as a child: The American Girl books
Longest book you've read: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (870 pages)
Shortest book you've read: Day Boy and Night Girl by George MacDonald
Book you're most embarassed to say you like: The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer
Book that turned you on: Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child
Book you've read the most number of times: I Capture the Castle
Favorite picture book from childhood: Walt Disney's Peter Pan
Book you plan to read next: Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
Book you tell people you've read, but haven't (or haven't actually finished): Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Book that contains your favorite scene: 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger
Favorite book you read in school: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Favorite nonfiction book: The Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
Favorite fiction book: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Last (good) book you read: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Book you're currently reading: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Favorite coffee table book: The Selby by Tom Selby


you guys should do this too :)

5 comments :

Our Youth said...

Ahhh, I love this.

Marcia said...

Ummmmmm.....you've been reading "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" for a long time now.......is life interrupting you too much?

hannah faith said...

I just read Bossypants AND I Capture the Castle within the last two weeks!

jackie said...

Bossypants is the funniest book I think I've ever read. people on the train thought I was crazy cause I'd literally lol. Not just a chuckle, like real laughing

Lana said...

did it! I still need to read Bossypants, and I'm with you on Twilight!