Well this was a challenge....

Question 1: If you could invite one author and one of their fictional characters to tea, who would you invite and what would you serve them?

 

For me, I'd be most likely to invite Marcus Zusak and Hans Hubermann  from the Book Thief. I'd serve them a variety of food and ask lots of questions.

 

Question 2: What book do you wish the author would write the prequel for?

My answer to this question is kind-of as expected. J.K Rowling and the Harry Potter series with more information about Moody, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs-especially Padfoot! I wouldn’t mind also having a prequel for Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You by Hana Jansen or Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor and Park.

 

Question 3: Which two characters (NOT from the same book) do you think would make a good couple?

 Maybe Margo Roth Spiegelman from Paper Towns and Four (Tobias) from the Divergent Series. Interesting partnership!

 

Question 4: If you ran into your favourite author on the subway and only could say one sentence to them who is it and what would it be?

My favourite author…I adore Marcus Zusak, Khaled Hosseini and J.R.R. Tolkien (I know this is not possible).  If I did meet any of them then I’d thank them for their writing of the books if I could actually get words out of my mouth.

 

Question 5: What book made you a reader and why?

The first book I remember capturing my imagination and making me want to go and visit Norway one day is The Witches by Roald Dahl closely followed by A series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

 

Question 6: Your bookshelf just caught fire! What is the one book you would save?

Aaargh! That’s just mean…I don’t know, one book….probably dependent on the mood I was in would alternate between Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You and The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak.

 

Question 7: Which dystopian world would you want to live in and why?

Ooh, what a question since most dystopian worlds seem to destroy themselves pretty quickly, but since I’ve just seen Insurgent then I’d probably say I could live alongside them.

 

Question 8: What is your most Epic Read of all time?

Oooh, em….lots…I think the 1 that impacted most recently was The Book Thief and then The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul.

Tour de France!

My favourite time of year has returned, the Tour de France is back!

I've grown up watching the tour with my dad and I adore following what is happening in the rankings, be it for the king of the mountains, the young rider, the spinter or the general classification. I look forward to shouting at my TV and having my nerves in tatters every day of racing waiting for the finish line coming into view.

For the moment, stage 2 is in full swing and one of the best climbers in the field is en route to collect the points on top of holme moss for the king of the mountains classification!

Hopefully all those big names live up to expectations, I'll keep you posted on my thoughts-meanwhile VAMOS, ALLONS , ANDIAMO, GO, GO, GO!! :D

Book lovers in a bookshop.....what happens?

I seem to have neglected this blog for quite a while so here goes the "catching up" phase.


During the past few weeks there have been birthdays, the queen's commonwealth baton and various other interesting days. One of the ones that sticks in my mind was the weekend that has just passed us by, though it is Wednesday now, never mind! Bonus of being off until September....


I was out for the day with one of my closest friends with the sole purpose of going to see The Fault in Our Stars. Epic film! We sat and sobbed, or I sobbed and she sniffed through the majority of the movie. Afterwards we proceeded to argue about who was crying the most and have a giggle about how handsome Ansel was and how strange it was to see him kissing Shailene after Divergent. I think I won the argument (as I always do!) and then we settled in to winding each other up over lunch.

After food, we toddled along to the BOOKSHOP, shock horror!

I think we would both spend our life there if we could, being complete bookaholics! As always we wandered and picked up books and put books down...and then completed the cycle a few times before leaving the shop with 5 books between us-not bad for a days' work if I do say so myself! Let's see what happens next time.....

Dream and hope, dream in hope!

So this blog title follows on from a conversation I was having with a friend last night. Let's just say we can often get carried away into our own worlds with regards to handsome men, otherwise known as obsessions.

We could spend hours and hours talking about meeting these lovely people and what we'd do if they appeared in front of us. My reaction for both John Owen Jones and various others was I'd probably squeal and run away, or stand gawping at them. Neither reaction would be particularly attractive and I know I wouldn't be able to force words out of my mouth.

As for my friend, I can see her in my mind's eye, getting redder and redder, the embarrassment showing through-to be fair she'd probably squeal too! We're bad influences on one another in these circumstances.

When we were talking about being in a picture last night with her favouritist person ever, Richard Madden. She said she dreams about that day....let's just leave this blog there, shall we?