What is your favourite book? Another vote here for Les Miserables, and also the book that changed my life. So many themes, so many single fantastic paragraphs that slay me every time I read it. Power, justice, love, everything.
Who is your favourite author? Right now, two historians: Alison Weir and Simon Schama. I'm deeply obsessed with British history, and both these authors can make me shut out the world for hours at a time and indulge that obsession.
What book do you think everyone around you should read? Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. People either love it or hate it, and I'm fascinated by the differences responses to the story.
What is comfort reading for you? Books from my childhood: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Westing Game, The Grounding of Group 6 ... and of course, more history books.
What book can always make you laugh? Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. A sweet, but happily caustic, look at the United Kingdom and its denizens. It makes me incredibly happy to read this.
What have you read recently that got you excited? Very little, unfortunately. I'm a loner, so it was a pleasure to read Jonathan Franzen's How to Be Alone, though I think his fiction is a bit overrated.
What book, when you find someone else who loves it, makes you need to be that person's best friend forever? Les Miserables, usually. :-)
What author do you wish was your best friend? Alison Weir ... failing her, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley.
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Another vote here for Les Miserables, and also the book that changed my life. So many themes, so many single fantastic paragraphs that slay me every time I read it. Power, justice, love, everything.
Who is your favourite author?
Right now, two historians: Alison Weir and Simon Schama. I'm deeply obsessed with British history, and both these authors can make me shut out the world for hours at a time and indulge that obsession.
What book do you think everyone around you should read?
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. People either love it or hate it, and I'm fascinated by the differences responses to the story.
What is comfort reading for you?
Books from my childhood: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Westing Game, The Grounding of Group 6 ... and of course, more history books.
What book can always make you laugh?
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. A sweet, but happily caustic, look at the United Kingdom and its denizens. It makes me incredibly happy to read this.
What have you read recently that got you excited?
Very little, unfortunately. I'm a loner, so it was a pleasure to read Jonathan Franzen's How to Be Alone, though I think his fiction is a bit overrated.
What book, when you find someone else who loves it, makes you need to be that person's best friend forever?
Les Miserables, usually. :-)
What author do you wish was your best friend?
Alison Weir ... failing her, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley.