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Tolkien: Stand alone novels or a series?

Stand alone! I understand the appeal that series have - sometimes there’s nothing better than to get fully emerged in a world for 3+ books! But I’m always worried I won’t be committed enough to finish and find stand alones less stressful to read

Shelley: 3 characters you dislike?

John Thorpe from Northanger Abbey, Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, and, of course, Umbridge from Harry Potter

ooh yay thank you!!

my favorite female character: i love them all but orla, she’s my everything 

my favorite male character: james obviously

my favorite book/season/etc: season 2 because the finale made me hella emotional

my favorite episode (if its a tv show): oh this is so hard because every episode is a treasure but i really love that one where they go to a peace initiative thing with a bunch of boys from a protestant school and theres that whole scene where they have to think of things they have in common but they just fill two blackboards with differences sajasjhhsajjash it’s so good i can’t. i love it. my favorite cast member: okay i even know less about the cast. i don’t follow any cast things so i’m so bad at this question everytime ashshjahjs i’ll just say all of them? i don’t know I DONT KNOW!my favorite ship: OKAY not to be boring but i don’t have any ships in derry girls. i haven’t really thought about ships is that weird? i just ship them together as friends forever sahjajhsjhasjha a character I’d die defending: orla, michelle, clare, all of them but i’ve never had to before so this is hard to answer lmao like who would ever dislike them or anything? it’s impossible!a character I just can’t sympathize with: i can’t think of anyone a character I grew to love: aunt sara she’s hilariousmy anti otp: derry girls not being friends?? IM SORRY MY ANSWERS WERE BORING but it’s just cos derry girls is just such happy viewing for me i don’t have any negative thoughts or anything. i’m just happy with whatever happens as long as they are friends and together shjjashjhs 

Thank you for this! <3 

Comedies: What’s a trope or cliche you enjoy in media? 

That thing when you’ve got two of the leading male characters go from being friends to being enemies because their differences got in the way of them ever being united, but at the end of the day, they both have more similarities than differences, and when united they would be unstoppable, but they just can’t get over one another. This ultimately comes to affect more than just the two of them, and that impact it has on other characters is interesting to watch. Ex: Aaron Burr + Hamilton in Hamilton or Ross Poldark + George Warleggan in Poldark. 

I also love student/mentor relationships, but this is an unhinged kind of student, and they’re nearly just as good (or even better) than their mentor, but they don’t have the rank or the authority yet. This is why I love the show Endeavour so much because Morse is a lad who needs to have some chill but he won’t ever chill as long as he lives :’). Ex: Endeavour Morse + Fred Thursday in Endeavour or Thomasina and Septimus in Arcadia. 

Authorship: You can pick any writer to write your biography, who is it? 

Ahh this is a hard one! I’m going to assume that I could choose living or dead? For living, I’m gonna go with Sarah Ruhl. She writes plays, so maybe a biographical play (?). The way she commands language is absolutely stunning and I aspire to have that kind of control over it. I’m gonna go read Eurydice again because I’m just thinking about it.  

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22. What’s the longest book you read?

Thank you for these Allie!!! <33

12. Do you need to finish a book before you can move on to the next one, or will you have multiple books going at once?

I sometimes have multiple books going at once but ideally i best operate reading one book at a time?? idk it’s just easier for me to focus that way, like i know if i try to read multiple books at once it’s going to take even longer to finish all of them whereas doing one book at a time is more efficient for me, idk. I do currently have two books I’m reading, murder on the orient express and a poetry collection, but i’m putting the poetry collection on hold until i finish the agatha christie novel anyway lol

17. Do you know any poetry by heart?

LOL I WISH i do know the first line of the Canterbury Tales prologue which is something like whan that aprill with his shores shote or something like that bc we had to memorize the first like twenty lines for bonus credit in a 10th grade english class but that’s really all i remember skdjfnsdkfsnd

26. A book you studied in school and ended up loving?

Shit so many actually lol i’m a huge nerd who liked pretty much everything they read in school... sorry bout it... uhhhhh idk if i can remember all of them tbh considering both my majors required like a shitton of reading but imma do my best!

High school:

Devil in the White City - Eric Larksen

The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

Hamlet (play) - William Shakespeare

College [english]:

The Bride of Lamermoor - Sir Walter Scott

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Sula - Toni Morrison

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem - Maryse Conde

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga

We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

Cloud Nine (play) - Caryl Churchill

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Clifford’s Blues - John A Williams

Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin

Maus - Art Spiegelman

The Photographer - Didier Lefèvre, Emmanuel Guibert, and Frédéric Lemercier

College [anthropology]:

With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India - Gayatra Reddy

Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry - Tanya Luhrmann

Righteous Dopefiend - Jeff Schonberg and Philippe Bourgois

Oooohhhhh good question! In no particular order:

- Visit Charles d’Orleans’s court at Blois after he returned to France, where he and Marie often hosted other authors, and he added their stuff to his personal notebook.

- Attend a feast hosted by Richard II or the Duke of Berry.

- See a jousting match!

- Pet Pangur Bán.

- See a manuscript, like the Nowell Codex (Beowulf), Gawain manuscript, the Book of the Dun Cow, anything really, when it was new.