1. Bookmarks or dog-ears?
Bookmarks. I'm given bookmarks as gifts, usually from my sister Joy and I also get free ones from the World Wildlife Foundation after I make a donation! I love bookmarks because dog ears mars the book. Most of the fiction I read is from the library so I want to be respectful.
2. Book accessories?
I honestly can't think of any book accessorires that we own unless you mean a kindle. My husband has a kindle and he used to have a Nook.
3. Are you a fast or slow reader?
Neither. I'm definitely not a slow reader but I don't speed read either. It usually takes me anywhere from 1-2 weeks to read a good fiction novel and a little longer to read a non-fiction book.
4. Have you ever written to an author?
Yes! And I got a response! It was via email and I was asking her about the setting in upstate NY about one of her mysteries. It was so much fun to get her reply.
5. Have you ever met an author in person?
Yes! Dave and I were on vacation (July 2015) in Chatham (Cape Cod), MA and while we were riding our bikes in town, we saw Lisa Genova standing outside the bookstore promoting her books! I LOVE her books and so I stopped to chat with her, bought two of the latest ones and she signed one for my sister Joy that I gave her as a Xmas gift later that year.
I also am friends with (and they're in my hiking group) a woman named Vicki and her daughter Isla who wrote a picture story book about life on the autism spectrum and about how we are all different and should never hide our true selves. Something along those lines.
I'm also friends with a woman and her youngest daughter who has written children's books and young adult fiction as well as a couple of mysteries.
6. Do you have a favorite character who is not the main character?
I don't think she's considered a "main character" but I really loved the character Melanie in the Gone with the Wind novel. I liked her way better than Scarlet!
7. Do you have any bookish merchandise?
Yes! I actually have a new tote bag from my youngest daughter that was bought in the NYS town of Hobart in the Catskill Mountains which is known as the "book village of the Catskills"....it is a very very small town with a population of 351 people and NINE bookstores all up and down the main street. My 2 daughters, sister Joy and I explored it a couple of years ago for our Annual Autumn Girls Day Away. Here is a pic of my tote bag that Claire bought me:
8. Favorite book from childhood?
I had several but the ones I'm choosing for this question is The Secret Garden when I was a 4th grader, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn that I read in 8th grade.
9. Do you read one book at a time, or several?
I always have a fiction book going, and usually a non-fiction (either a memoir or a hiking guide, or a Bible study book). I also read in the Chronological Bible most days or another devotional book or sections of one of the books in the Bible for my quiet time.
10. Favorite genre
Mysteries, psych thrillers that aren't gory or horror, historical fiction, drama -like family sagas with a tiny bit of romance, fantasy (Think Harry Potter or Chronicles of Narnia), some Christian fiction....the mysteries more than the romance ones.
11. Genres you don’t care for?
Horror, erotica, sappy romances, most science fiction and most "Christian" fiction
12. Best movie based on a book? Worst?
Les Miserables or Gone with the Wind (although due to length of the novels, Hollywood did have to leave a lot out).
Worst: All the Light We Cannot See, Rebecca, The Book Thief
The books were SO MUCH BETTER!
That was fun!
What book(s) are you currently reading?
Mine are listed on my side bar.
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