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Passions: Travel? Mountains & Pine trees? Reading? Sleep? Money? Not really passionate about anything except Robert Plant, LOL
Favorite book(s): The Stand (King), Civil Campaign (Bujold), Masterharper of Pern (McCaffrey), Martian Child (Gerrold), Lucifer’s Hammer (Niven & Pournelle), Old Man’s War (Scalzi), and 100’s more
Favorite author(s): See above
If you could live as a character in any book, which would you choose? Claire Randall or Mile Vorkosigian
Best entertainment read: 50 Shades
Favorite genre: SF
What draws you to a book? Action, romance, characters that don’t talk everything to death.
Favorite series: McCaffrey’s Pern
Favorite movie adaptation of a book: all of the Harry Potters’
How many books do you read, on avg. per month? 10? Never kept track. I have more time now that I'm retired.
Library or bookstore? Bookstore
Hardcover, paperback, electronic device or audio? Kindle, paperback, hardback
Occupation: Semi retired with my husband. We have owned many businesses. We still dabble in real estate and we flip houses when we find a good deal.
Passions: "Living" life and not letting it pass me by, reading, gardening, being more self sufficient in our off grid home, remodeling, cooking, hiking, spending time with my family and my pug
Favorite book(s): Ah…there are too many great books out there. I read more for my pleasure rather than any great literary conversations, lol. I prefer legal thrillers and psychological thrillers. I take a break once in awhile with an easy Romantic suspense or a YA book.
Favorite author(s): Robert Crais, Kay Hooper, Allison Brennan, Lee Child, Lisa Jackson, Brenda Novak, Suzanne Brockmann, Nora Roberts, Dean Koontz, John Saul, Ted Dekker, Phillip Margolin, Wendy Corsi Staub, Susan Mallery, James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Andrea Kane, Lisa Gardner, Beverly Barton….etc. etc. etc.
If you could live as a character in any book, which would you choose? None really….I love my life.
Best entertainment read: Susan Mallery, Nora Roberts, or Robyn Carr usually any light romance.
Favorite genre: Mystery/psychological thriller/suspense…a little romance doesn't hurt, some horror, sci fi and YA
What draws you to a book? The description.
Favorite series: Joe Pike series by Robert Crais, The Troubleshooter series by Suzanne Brockman, The Giver Series by Lois Lowry, The Bishop / SCU Series by Kay Hooper, Amanda Jaffe series and Brad Miller series by Philip Margolin, Jack reacher series by Lee Child, Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson, Virgin River series by Robyn Carr, Fools Gold by Susan Mallery, all of Nora Roberts series.
Favorite movie adaptation of a book: None…the movies are never as good as a book(in my experience).
How many books do you read, on avg. per month? 8
Library or bookstore? Library
Hardcover, paperback, electronic device or audio? It doesn't matter as long as I can read it
Passions: art, nature, ancient hirstory & legends, mysticism.
Favorite book(s): oh man.... From what decade? Twig, Over Sea Under Stone, The Once and Future King, anything by Anne McCaffrey, Charles deLint, Piers Anthony; On A Pale Horse.
Favorite author(s): see above and Jimmy Buffet (very funny!)
If you could live as a character in any book, which would you choose? Um....
Best entertainment read: A Pirate's Look at Fifty, Junior's Leg, Electric Kool-aid Acid Test, (mystery makes one think, adds entertainment value. so, anything from Agatha Christy and Tony Hillarman.
Favorite genre: sci-fi/fantasy, and books about myths, folklore & fairy tales, astrology, tarot, dreams, and such.
What draws you to a book? Personal interests mostly. However some of the best reads have been the random book found or given; Destiny's Women (a Gone with the Wind Story, but in the North), and Junior's Leg (picked up at a laundromat), Into the Wild.
Favorite series: Incarnations of Immortality, Pern, Black Stallion when I was a kid.
Favorite movie adaptation of a book: Gone With The Wind, Matilda, Practical Magic.
How many books do you read, on avg. per month? Not as much as I used to, I'm so ashamed!
Library or bookstore? (Used) bookstore.
Hardcover, paperback, electronic device or audio? A cover, a back, and words on paper is the only way.
Passions: Reading, Running, Knitting, Family, Mindfulness, the Canadian Rockies
Favorite book(s): Mountains Beyond Mountains
Favorite author(s): Anne Fadiman, Tracy Kidder, Wallace Stegner, Donna Tartt
If you could live as a character in any book, which would you choose? Hmmmm..... Anne of Green Gables?, Laura Ingalls? Clearly, I'm looking for simplicity and comfort (probably something that I need to reflect on for a bit)
Best entertainment read:
Favorite genre: "Smart fiction" (I made that up)
What draws you to a book? Sometimes the cover, often the recommender,
Favorite series: I'm not really a series sort of reader. In fact, the only series that I have ever read are Harry Potter (had to start them as I read them to my kids) and Hunger Games
Favorite movie adaptation of a book: The Horse Whisperer. It is my favorite movie adaptation because it is the only time that I remember liking a movie more than I liked the book
How many books do you read, on avg. per month? Two
Library or bookstore? Both, either and internet
Hardcover, paperback, electronic device or audio? In order of preference (though I will read anything!): Paperback, Hardback, Electronic device, audio
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Name: Hippo
Age: 65
Occupation: retired
Passions:
Favorite book(s): still read the James Herriott books sometimes
Favorite author(s): John Sandford, Sue Grafton, Robert Parker, Tony Hillerman, Dick Francis
If you could live as a character in any book, which would you choose?
maybe the main character in one of those corny love stories- she can eat anything and never gain weight, never mops her kitchen floor or takes out the garbage, and goes out 3 hrs before a big date and finds the perfect dress-on sale.
Favorite genre: about anything except love stories.
What draws you to a book?
plot
Favorite series: probably the Virgil Flowers series by Sandford
Favorite movie adaptation of a book: Silence of the Lambs
How many books do you read, on avg. per month? 1 or 2 in summer; 6-8 in winter
If you could live as a character in any book, which would you choose? Twilight
Best entertainment read: Twilight and Wizard of Oz
Favorite genre: Old times (NOT westerns, but similar time period)
What draws you to a book? I read the cover and look at the front picture.
Favorite series: Twilight and Wizard of Oz
Favorite movie adaptation of a book: Twilight
How many books do you read, on avg. per month? A lot + im in book club
Library or bookstore? Both
Hardcover, paperback, electronic device or audio? Hard
I LOVE to read anything BUT: Romance, Sci Fi and Westerns.
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