#and there's so much red ink on my printed copy lmao

[the-poetry-of-stars]

Having written a book and many an essay I can conclusively say:

Editing is the absolute worst I hate it

And I have ~strategies~ in place to help me do it effectively

But still the worst

[alayne-stonecoldfox]

20 book questions, tagged by @petyrbaelishs  thank you!

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?

A couple of Rupert childrens books. They were published in 1956 and 1958 and belonged to my dad when he was little and then he kept them for me, and I still have them.

2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?

Current read: Transactions by Ali Alizadeh, last read: Harry potter and the prisoner of askaban, book ill read next: one from the huge pile I bought but have yet to get to eep

3. Which book does everyone like and you hated?

Idk, maybe the Hobbit? couldnt stand that book, had to read it for school. I think i read it with my eyes closed because I can’t remember a thing that happened, I was not engaged.

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?

Gone with the wind. I have a lovely hard bound cloth copy I got dirt cheap at a used book sale, but...its so...big...

5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”

Counte of Monte Cristo. Loved the movie. the books the size of a inner city rental. ill get there one day.

6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?

Im awful, I read the end first or i flip and start somewhere and get sucked in at that point and realise ive read 50 pages out of context, im the worst. Im to nosy, I want to know what happens . right. now

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?

I dont really read them often but its the authors book, they can put in what they want

8. Which book character would you switch places with?

I probably sound mad, but Sansa. I KNOW all shes gone through but I just love her, and want to wear a pretty gown with my long red hair and run through castle halls, the fairest maid

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?

The curious incident of a dog in the nighttime. I read it non-stop till i was done in a couple days, sneaking it into my year 7 class under the table, i read it while walking home, everything else was just secondary to wanting to read. Thinking of that book takes me back to the time in my live when I just loved reading that much.

10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.

I have a few books from when my mum worked at a publishing house, and I would get to go to book signings and meet authors and get signed copies. 

11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?

I've given books away to my little second cousins. Actually, just a couple months ago, they were having a big book clear out and were ready to throw away two old ones, a bugs bunny annual which again I think belonged to my dad and was printed around the 60′s, and another one, which i was like...well...Ill just take these back then lmao. I’m sure they enjoyed them for a time.

12. Which book has been with you to the most places?

everything on my kindle?

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?

as said before, I hated the hobbit, but maybe i wouldn’t hate it now? Idk, not too tempted to try again really. I don’t want to read looking for alibrandi again either. I only took general english, I wasnt smart enough for Literature, so we didn’t get as good a books.

14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?

a squished silverfish.

15. Used or brand new?

Used because they’re cheeeappeeer

16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?

I’ve not read a stephen king book

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?

does sex and the city count? 

18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?

The other Boleyn girl. Bye scarjo. I adore that book.

19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?

Its grim, but maybe mao’s last dancer. The chapters of him and his family starving from poverty its just like...jesus i need to go and appreciate food. 

20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?

My heaux friends who know exactly the types of tropes I like, because we’re all the same brand of gnasty

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