Bookish Asks

1. What are you currently reading/what is the last book you read?

2. Second hand or brand new?

3. What is your current recommendation for anyone looking for something to read?

4. Go to genre on a rainy night?

5. The book you can finish and then immediately start again without hesitation?

6. Approximately how long does it take you to finish a book?

7. Favorite series when you were a kid.

8. What’s your favorite “elusive” series? (i.e., the series that most people haven’t heard of)

9. If you had to be shoved into a book only armed with what you know about the universe and nothing else, which book would you choose?

10. Your favorite book that you read for school and ended up loving?

11. What’s your least favorite book that you’ve ever read?

12. A book you want to see made into a TV show/movie (or, if its already been adapted but you didn’t like it, what you’d do differently)

13. What character would you play in a movie adaption of your current favorite book?

14. What kind of character are you? (The protag, the quirky sidekick, the tech geek, etc)

15. Have you ever started reading a book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving? What was it?

16. Old book smell or new book feel?

17. What is the oldest book you own?

18. Last book you purchased and why?

19. What kind of book genre are you living in right now?

20. What’s your favorite position/place to read in?

21. Beverage of choice when reading?

22. Music or no music while reading? Classical, ambient noise, or pop?

23. Have you ever read anything by an independent/self published author? If so, would you recommend it?

24. Bookmarks, creased edges, memorization, or random scraps of things?

25. Audio book or physical book?

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silentcassio

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no offense but why do cat owners let them on counter tops? do they not shed and it gets on the food

You think i have any control over these bitches

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