GAH I CAN'T SLEEP!

Therefore, 1. What books are your comfort reading--the ones you slink back to in times of stress? The Harrys, mostly. Pride and Prejudice. I think "A Great and Terrible Beauty" is going to become a comfort book also.What was your favorite book as a child, and why? I don't remember why, but I really loved "Danny and the Dinosaur" by Sid Hoff when I was very young. What was your favorite book as an adolescent, and why? "The Silver Kiss" by Annette Curtis Klause, because I love vampires, especially blond ones. Read it when I was 14 and I still love it.What is the most unread category of books gathering dust on your bookshelf--the books you've bought but just never get around to reading? Hmmm . . . well, I don't usually buy a book unless I'm racking up insane charges at the library on it, but one book I bought and haven't read yet is "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander. I'll get around to it someday.What kind of books would you like to say you read, but never do? Books by people like Herman Wouk and Thomas Wolfe, and also Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Again, I'll get around to them someday.What's the oddest book you've ever read? Almost all of the postmodern books I read for my Postmodern Novel class two years ago. I just don't get postmodernism.What book were you never able to get through,despite the recommendations of people you respect? Oh God . . . several. Um . . . Jude the Obscure, Catcher in the Rye, The Mill on the Floss, Watership Down, Frankenstein (I could go on).What's the book it took you a couple of tries to get into, but was as good as promised once you finally made it? The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I started The Hobbit four or five times, but kept getting hung up at the troll scene. The sixth time I kept at it, and loved it. Then I read Fellowship pretty easily, got stuck in the middle of Two Towers, then waited a long time before reading Return of the King (and oh was I glad I did).What's your favorite short story--or do you even have one? I have one. It's called "Argentine", it's by Ellen Steiber, and it's in "The Essential Bordertown: A Traveller's Guide to the Edge of Faerie", edited by Terri Windling and Delia Sherman. LOVE LOVE LOVEThe desert island. Three books (and collected works don't count. If you want the Lord of the Rings it'll cost you all three slots). Go:1. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen3. Rose Daughter, Robin McKinleyYay, that was fun. And helpful . . . I'm actually tired now. Goodnight!