Ten on Tuesday - Books, books books!

1. When someone asks you for a book recommendation, what is your go-to book?
It really depends on what kind of books the person likes. Food Porn? Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl. Non-fiction? Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson or The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot or Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell. Classic literature? McTeague by Frank Norris or Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald. Modern novels? Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Young adult? Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater ... I probably have tons more recommendations if you really want them.

2. Do you buy your books, or are you a library patron? I hate to spend too much money on books, so I download a lot of free and cheap ones. Before I got my Nook I had a lot of books from the library, but now I frequent the overdrive website (ebook library) and download almost every free or discounted book spotlighted by Nook.

3. E-readers, yay or nay? Up until Christmas I would have said no way, but my MIL gave me a Nook (she wanted to get me an eReader and I researched the major brands to decide which I wanted) and I LOVE it. So yay e-readers!

4. What was your favorite book as a child? Harold and the Purple Crayon as a toddler. A Wrinkle in Time and The Face on the Milk Carton when I was a little older. I can't remember a whole lot of books from my childhood, but I devoured them more than I do now.

5. If you could be any character in a book, who would you be? Meg Murray from A Wrinkle in Time. I identified a lot with her when I was young.

6. What book would you love to see turned into a movie? I honestly never think of books in terms of what would make a good movie. When I find out that a book I've read is being turned into a movie I wonder how it will be, but I never read a book and wonder how it would look as a movie. However, when I found out that they were making Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series into a movie the first thing I thought (after the fact that Heigl didn't make a good Plum) is that I think it would be a much better tv series.

7. What is your all-time favorite book? McTeague by Frank Norris. Or anything by Fitzgerald. Or almost anything by Nick Hornby (Not Long Way Down. Juliet, Naked would have been fantastic without the last chapter or two).

8. How many books do you read at once? Usually only one, occasionally two.

9. What is your favorite book genre? Memoir or supernatural, these days.

10. Which Harry Potter book is the best? Or haven’t you read them at all? I don't have a favorite. I enjoyed the series although I read them really late - just around December/January. I finally decided that maybe I should check them out, given my propensity to read YA lately.

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