Bookee - Borrowed

[I began this last week, but am only just getting to post now.  Life has been full since then - a quick weekend trip, which was preceded by a minor crisis at home.  Smoke damage sucks.  Please return to your regular programming.]

I'm taking a page out of Jess's book blog.  Here' goes:

1. What author do you own the most books by?  Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman and J.K. Rowling.  And I'm not counting the entire Anne of Green Gables series which I snagged when our librarian was turfing a bunch of old copies last year.  I like them well enough, but I'm not over the moon like most folk, it's just something I feel I ought to have in my library and, c'mon - the have hard covers and were free!

2. What book do you own the most copies of?  The Bible.  Versions galore, including in Koine Greek which I can't read but my husband can.

3. What fictional character are you secretly in love with?  Faramir

4. What book have you read the most times in your life?  Hmmm... Lord of the Rings, or Harry Potter, and perhaps some Bruno and Boots books. 

5. Favorite book as a ten year old? I Want to Go Home! by Gordon Korman.  Seriously, I would laugh out loud over and over again.  [Salate!]  After that, Babysitter's Club like any self-respecting 10-year-old.

6. What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year? Twilight, or perhaps the second one, New Moon, was it?

7. What is the best book you’ve read in the past year? What's So Amazing About Grace, followed by The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop.

8. If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be? Jess has the most awesome answer: "People shouldnt' be forced to read."  And the English teacher in me says, Yes!  Except, well, except for The Little Prince. ;)

9. What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read? One: The Kite Runner, but becaue it contains kids and injustice and I read it when I was less than 2 months post partum.  If I'd read it when I was 17, it wouldn't have been nearly as gut wrenching.  Two: Vanity Fair because after about 200 pages I was thinking Alright Thackery, I get it!  Satire.  But no, I had to slog through another 300 pages because I had a paper coming my way.  Runners Up: Lolita and Jude the Obscure.

10. What are you reading right now? 2006 Best Science Writing, Ed. Atul Gawande.