Reader Profile

Today we get to speak with Miss A and hear about her love of reading…

1. How long have you been a reader? 40+ years.
2. What was the very first book you remember reading? Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh.
3. What book had the biggest impact on your life? I don’t think any have impacted my life as such, but many have captured my heart and stayed with me since the first time I read them and probably will be burrowed in forever.
4. Your favourite book? The Witching Hour by Anne Rice.
5. What is your favourite genre? Romance.
6. Your go to reading snack? I always have a drink at hand, whether it’s coffee, water or something else!
7. Favourite place to read? Sofa/bed.
8. One book you want turned into a movie? Not a movie but a TV series, The Witching Hour by Anne Rice. It is a 1200 page book with so much material to unpack and is begging for original material to be added to one particular plotline in the book.
9. One book you want a sequel for? The Earthseed Duet by the late great Octavia E. Butler.
10. Do you own any book themed items (jewellery, prints, quilts etc)? No.
11. How many books do you own? Ummmm 1000+ across formats.
12. Do you prefer paperback or eBooks? ebooks since discovery in about 2007.
13. Do you let people borrow your books? I used to and learnt my lesson when I got another favourite Anne Rice book back and it was no longer a  complete book.
14. Favourite place to buy books? Kobo as that is my device of choice.
15. Ever called in sick to work so you could stay home and finish a book? No.
16. Oldest book you own? A copy of Carbonel that I got from ebay I think…
17. How many books on your TBR (to be read) pile? Hundreds, not all owned… yet! Certainly enough that I’ll never run out of books or read them all lol!
18. Do you have a book character crush? Many! The last significant one was Teresa July from Beverly Jenkins’ fabulous Wild Sweet Love.
19. Do you re-read your books? Only my TOP TOP favs, or series books where I need to remind myself what happened when the next book comes out, which I try to limit by mostly binge reading series. Too many ‘new’ books for re-reading to be a big thing for me. I already struggle for the time to get to all the unread books that I want to dive into!
20. If you could only have three books to read for the rest of your life, what would they be? 3 single books?… impossible choice. But The Witching Hour by Anne Rice would definitely be one and it is so long it could count as 3 or 4 books! Wolfsong by TJ Klune, a third choice is hard because it could be any number of favourites from a number of different genres… 10 would be hard but 3 is impossible.