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So here's how to play:

1. Person 1 asks 3 bookish questions.
2. Person 2 answers the questions
3. Person 2 then asks 3 questions of their own
4. Person 3 answers Person 2's questions
5. Person 3 then asks 3 questions of their own

and so on....

Each person's answers and new questions should be in the one post. And the same questions can be asked more than once if you like, to give different people a chance to answer (although not every set of questions should be the same, obviously).

Have fun :)

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My answers are:
Since I am starting, I don't have questions to answer.

My questions are:
1. What is your favourite genre?
2. What is your favourite book format (e.g. paperback, hardcover, ebook)?
3. Where is your favourite place to read?

1. What is your favourite genre?
Young Adult

2. What is your favourite book format (e.g. paperback, hardcover, ebook)?
Depends largely on the size on the book, but mainly hardback.

3. Where is your favourite place to read?
My bedroom.

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1. Can you remember the first book that you really loved?
2. Favourite author?
3. Do you have some sort of e-book reader?

1. Can you remember the first book that you really loved?
a: The Chronicles of Narnia
2. Favourite author?
a: Hard to pick just one, but if I had to choose one
it would have to be Sandra Benitez
3. Do you have some sort of e-book reader?
a: Kindle
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1. When you read do you see images or a movie going on inside your head?
2. Is there a book that you have read multiple times and yet you still know you must read it again?
3. Can you remember the first book that your really loved? (love this question Alannah)

1. When you read do you see images or a movie going on inside your head?
Yes! Always have.

2. Is there a book that you have read multiple times and yet you still know you must read it again?
It used to be the Harry Potter novels but I always try to read new novels because there are millions out there.

3. Can you remember the first book that your really loved? (love this question Alannah)
Vicky Angel, from then on I started reading for pleasure.

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1. Do you hesitate seeing any movie of a book you have read?
2. Are you the person, out of your group of friends who is always reading new books first?
3. Do your friends come to you for recommendations?

1. Do you hesitate seeing any movie of a book you have read? - no, not really. I know it is going to be different. I like you look at the differences and the similarities.
2. Are you the person, out of your group of friends who is always reading new books first? - No. I like to read old books. Well, lately maybe I am. Because I read a lot of books from - they are new.
3. Do your friends come to you for recommendations? - No. Because we don't have similar tastes in books. I do read a lot of books in magazine-format, which I sent to a friend in the UK, after reading them myself. So in that case she does read some of my recommendations.

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1. Show us a bookcover which you really like.
2. Show us a bookcover you really dislike.
3. When you see a beautiful bookcover, do you get attracted by it and does it make you want to read the book?

1. Show us a bookcover which you really like.
I am not that big into book cover art, preferring the inside of the book to the outside, but I like this:



2. Show us a bookcover you really dislike.
This is for a book I love, a Regency romance by Georgette Heyer - luckily my copy doesn't have this cover!



3. When you see a beautiful bookcover, do you get attracted by it and does it make you want to read the book?
Not so much, although a bad cover can turn me away from a book. A beautiful cover will cause me to read the blurb, but the blurb is much more likely to sway me into getting a book that the cover.

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1. Do you prefer novels to be realistic or fantastic?
2. What is your comfort reading?
3. (from Debbie) When you read do you see images or a movie going on inside your head?

This is a fun game - thanks for posting it!

1) Realistic I suppose, though I like books that have an edge of something extra, whether that be fantastical or just whimsical or odd. Books speculating on the future are cool to me. I don't really care for traditional fantasy with dragons, knights, etc, but I'd love to find some unconventional fantasy or realism with a fantasy twist. If anyone has recommendations, please pass them on!

2) For light reading I love funny novels or humorous memoirs. Though even in serious books I like them to have an element of comedy.

3) Yes, absolutely. It's hard for me to imagine NOT doing that.

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1) What's a book that you didn't like but couldn't stop reading because it was such an amusing/fun-to-hate train wreck? (If you've never had this experience, then simply what is the worst book you've ever suffered through?)

2) What imaginary world from a book would you most want to live in? (If not for life then just for a vacation let's say.)

3) What's been your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?

1) What's a book that you didn't like but couldn't stop reading because it was such an amusing/fun-to-hate train wreck? (If you've never had this experience, then simply what is the worst book you've ever suffered through?)

The Gossip Girl series. When I was reading I was doing my A-levels and I thought of them as light relief.

2) What imaginary world from a book would you most want to live in? (If not for life then just for a vacation let's say.)

It has always been the Harry Potter universe for me ever since I could remember.

3) What's been your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?

Hmm, that is a tough one. I really liked The White Queen which wasn't technically a movie but made for television instead.

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1) Author you have read the most books from:
2) Your least favourite series?
3) Favourite hidden gem which you believe should have more attention.

1) Dean Koontz
2) not sure
3) Elle Jasper/ Dark Ink Chronicles

Alannah wrote: "It has always been the Harry Potter universe for me"

That'd be my pick too! When I was reading those books I felt so deeply, physically SAD that Hogwarts didn't exist.... And I was 23 when I first read them. Hehe. :P

Lee wrote: "1) Dean Koontz
2) not sure
3) Elle Jasper/ Dark Ink Chronicles"

Lee, we need 3 new questions from you to keep the game going! :)

The thread seems to have stalled.

I will offer some questions...

1. Name a book you read because the cover appealed to you.
2. Name a book you rejected or nearly rejected because of the cover.
3. Name a book on your shelves that once had an attractive cover or dust jacket and which you keep because you love it even though it is old and battered and aesthetically unattractive. (You may never have owned the covered version...)

Thanks for continuing this, Tweedledum! I answered recently so I feel I should let someone else have a turn but I hope this thread keeps going because it's fun to read :)

I never look at covers! I'm not the right personto answer this set of questions!!!
Anyone else?

LauraT wrote: "I never look at covers! I'm not the right personto answer this set of questions!!!
Anyone else?"

No, me either!

Oh dear no one likes my questions.... Maybe I should answer them myself!

Tweedledum wrote: "The thread seems to have stalled.

I will offer some questions...

1. Name a book you read because the cover appealed to you.

Mendelssohn Is On The Roof
I went past an independent bookshop which had filled the window with copies of this book . I spent ages looking at the display then went inside and ummed and ah...d for a long time. The cover definitely clinched it for me. Not an easy read but highly recommended.

2. Name a book you rejected or nearly rejected because of the cover.

Wrong About Japan
I went through a prolonged phase of collecting books published by Faber and Faber. This book, discovered on a second hand stall, fulfilled that category but I really disliked the cover and wasn't at all sure I would want to read it. Eventually the ff obsession won over. The book turned out to be a great read.

3..."Name a book on your shelves that once had an attractive cover or dust jacket and which you keep because you love it even though it is old and battered and aesthetically unattractive. (You may never have owned the covered version...)

I have a lot of these and inherited a lot more.
Dare to be Free - One of the Greatest True Stories of World War II
This is a grey hardback book that has lived on my shelves ever since I "borrowed " it from my parents bookshelf at the age of 14. My first introduction to WW2 literature. There is nothing about the appearance of this book that would make you look twice. Good to see it now in print again.

So I guess I should post some new questions...


1. Name a book you read because a work colleague recommended it.
2. Name a book you discovered through your job.
3. Name a book you were directed or advised to read by someone at work.

1. The Time Traveler's Wife -- I was working on the set of a student film and someone was reading this backstage and had high things to say about it.

2. The Handmaid's Tale -- Same film set. I walked in on a group of people discussing this - specifically how the married couples go about their reproductive rituals in this future dystopia. If you've read the book, you can understand how hearing this out of context would be like, "bwuh?" :P I finally found out that they were referring to this book, and I read it soon after and it became one of my all-time favorite novels.

3. Dance Improvisations -- I wasn't directed to read this, but I needed a book of dance games and creative exercises for a class that I was teaching. So, I guess you could say I directed myself. :P It proved to be an amazing resource.

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Alright, my questions to ask!

1. Some characters are best because of their flaws. Who is the most flawed, messed-up character that you've really liked (or at least found interesting)? Tell us about him or her.

2. What is the WEIRDEST book you've ever read?

3. Have you ever gotten into an argument over a book? Tell us about it.

1. Heathcliff from Withering Heights by Emily Brontë. He was the character I found most interesting in the story. He's vengeful, bitter, and irrational in my opinion with how he acts through the story. Yet, there is this one side of him that is true, which is his love for Catherine. So even though he's this awful and hurt person, I think holding onto that love kind of redeems him.

2. Lord of the Flies.

3. Yes. I've argued with my dad about The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings before. I try to explain to him the deeper meanings in the books, but he just goes off about how the story to him doesn't make sense and its not interesting. (I'm putting this as kindly as I can lol.) But he still supports my love for it and all my other fandoms :D

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Awesome answers Bailey! Now make sure you ask 3 questions for the next person, so the thread can continue :D

My turn to ask questions! :D

1. Have you ever enjoyed a book you thought you wouldn't like? If so, what was it?

2. What book inspires you the most?

3. What character(s) from a book do you wish were real?

Shannon Noel wrote: "1. The Time Traveler's Wife -- I was working on the set of a student film and someone was reading this backstage and had high things to say about it.

2. [book:The Handmaid's Tale|3..."

Love your answers Shannon Noël

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