1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?
Novels and some non-fiction. Also plays, poetry, newspapers, magasines… In fact, pretty much everything. If there is nothing else to read I’ll read teh back of the cereal box or the milk carton.
2. What is your favorite novel?
Ah, now, dear me. Difficult question. In order to give an answer I will say Jane Austen’s Emma, however I reserve my right to change my mind every few seconds.
3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!)
Several. But I’ll pick one:
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
e.e.cummings
4. What is one thing you’ve always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?
I wish I had more time to read, period. I wish I could read more newspapers without having less time to read books…
5. What are you currently reading?
“The Far Side of the World” Patrick O’Brian
I’m also in the middle of a couple of others (I’m very rarely in the middle of just one book at a time) George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”, Harold Bloom’s “The Western Canon” and Bj�rn Ranelid’s “Min son f�ktas mot v�rlden”, to mention a few.