Thank you so
much, Jay, for nominating me! You should check out her blog: Books By Jay, it
really is phenomenal. I’ve been dying to do this tag for ages and I am locked
and loaded to write down the best darn answers to any tag you’ve ever
read! So… let’s do this thing
1.
What was the best dystiopian book
you've ever read?
Now this is a very difficult question indeed because I do
love my dystopian and trust me I have read a
lot of it! However, if you really are going to be so cruel as to make me
choose then I would probably have to go with… ‘Delirium’ by Lauren Oliver. That
book made me weep all kinds of ugly. I must have cried out around 50% of the
water in my body. My friend told me what happens in the other two books though
and with an ending like that I can’t bear to even attempt to read them… Aren’t
spoilers the worst?
2.
How many books are on your TBR shelf?
I’m quite new to this whole blogging thing compared to some of you
keyboard dinosaurs out there, but I think
this is like a goodreads thing? In which case, I don’t know, because
apparently I’m too stupid to work out how to use goodreads. You can find mehere if you want to try and figure it out for me…
However, if you’re talking about the books in the massive wobbly pile by
my bed then I have about 10! Though it is
my birthday this month so with any luck, that’ll double!
3. What is the book that you really want
to read but can't get your hands on?
So, recently in the UK the movie adaptation of ‘Love, Rosie’ by Cecilia
Ahern came out and my friend pointed out in Waterstones that it had this really
wicked writing style! Of course, it made me want to read it right then and
there, immediately. But, what with being a teen n’ all my pockets are
perpetually empty and I decided that £7 was far too much to pay for this book.
Luckily, my town has about a thousand charity shops so I figured I’d just hunt
the book down under its old title ‘Where Rainbows End’ (cheesy, I know).
I looked for that book for hours. I
swear, I must have gone into more than twenty different odd-smelling shops and
bumped into enough of the elderly to have me banned from all care homes ever,
but it wasn’t there…
All of this just makes me want it more!
4.
What book is your most anticipated
book of the year?
I can’t wait for ‘My True Love Gave To Me’! It’s a compilation of twelve
different Christmas stories written by some of my absolutely favourite authors,
including the Romantic Rainbow Rowell and the Spectacular Stephanie Perkins!
It’s actually already out in the shops but I can’t afford it and it’s glorious
pink pages… So, I will wait until my birthday and hope with all of my might.
5.
Who is your most read author?
I actually admitted in my recent blog ‘Defending Jacqueline Wilson’ that
I have read a total of 32 of her books… I honestly don’t know how I did it! I
was a massive fan of hers as a kid, every time we went to the bookshop I would
pick out one or two of her books without fail. My brothers and sisters were
fantasy addicts and they used to get annoyed by my total devotion to something
that didn’t even have a single hobbit in it.
6.
Do you have any signed books? What
are they?
Ha! I wish! The authors I love are mostly American but even the British
ones never hop on over to my part of the UK! I never get any chances to get
anything signed. I don’t buy the signed books from Waterstones again because of
price, but even if they were cheaper it’s still not as exciting as having the
actual living breathing author in front of you scrawling down your name… Maybe
if I wish hard enough John Green or E. Lockhart will suddenly be compelled to
jump on a plane, hunt me down and write a deep personal message in the front of
my book, but until then, I can only dream.
7.
Who is your favourite contemporary
author?
I cannot stress enough the love I feel for Stephanie Perkins and Rainbow
Rowell. Every single one of their books so far has managed to break down my
floodgates and turn my eyes into some kind of Niagra Falls lookalike. They have
such a beautiful writing style and I am most comfortable when immersed in one
of their gorgeous romances… *sigh*
8.
What is your favourite book to movie
adaptation?
Book to movie adaptations are always better if the writer was in some way
involved and that is why ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’ was so on point! Chbosky
himself wrote the screenplay for the movie so it was always destined for
greatness. The characters were so well cast (even if Emma Watson's ‘American’
accent was so annoying…) and it was such an emotional movie. Seriously: Read
it. Watch it. Rip your heart out of your chest. And then lose the ability to
feel emotions entirely.
9.
Who is the most relatable character
you've ever read about in a book?
I often find it quite hard to relate to a character because obviously in
fiction the situations can be so extreme. I mean, I’ve never been forced to
participate in a battle for the death against 23 other teens in which I nearly
die of dehydration, fire, flying bug attacks and angry dogs who look weirdly
like that guy I once knew, all the while being broadcast to millions of rich
costume-lovers – so how the hell can I say I relate to Katniss Everdeen? That
said, I would probably say I’m a bit like a few different characters. I’m
stubborn like Emily in ‘A Heart Shaped Bruise’ (though, er… not to such a
murderous extent) and I’m quirky like Lola in ‘Lola and the Boy Next Door’ – my
friend says I even dress a bit like her!
10. Which book that you own has the
prettiest book cover?
This one! (AND it has illustrations on the inside too!)
My Questions:
If I’m going
to do this, I’m going to do this good and proper!
1.
If
you could change the ending of any book, what would it be and what would you
change it to?
2.
If
you could dump hot noodle soup over the head of any one book character, who
would you choose?
3.
You’re
getting married! Choose your soon-to-be spouse, your best man, your bride’s
maids and your DJ?
4.
Sum
up one book with an album or playlist
5.
You’ve
stole a chocolate fudge cake from the local bake and you’re about to be shoved
into prison for twenty two years with one book character of your choice, who
would it be?
6.
If
you could ask any author three questions who would it be and what?
7.
You
can attend one fictional school for an entire year, which would it be?
(Hogwarts is banned from this answer because, well… duh!)
8.
Would
you rather snog Draco Malfoy, Luna Lovegood or Ron Weasley? State why!
9.
If
you had to get a tattoo of one characters face on a body part of your choosing,
who and where would you choose? (Keep it clean people!)
10.
You
can bring one fictional character back from the dead, but by doing so you have to
kill another: which two do you choose?
I Nominate:
Tika from
fangirl Confessions
Anastasia
from Cuddle Reads
Emily from
Forever Literary
Ellen from
Quest Reviews
Monica from
My Island of Books
Good luck
girls!
