I also posted this list of questions on the forum, where you can share your thoughts with kindred spirits and see my answers.

1. Favorite childhood book?
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2. What are you reading right now?
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3. What books do you have on request at the library?
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4. Bad book habit?
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5. What do you currently have checked out at the library?
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6. Do you have an e-reader?
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7. Do you prefer to read one book at a time, or several at once?
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8. Have your reading habits changed since starting a blog?
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9. Least favorite book you read this year (so far?)
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10. Favorite book you’ve read this year?
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11. How often do you read out of your comfort zone?
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12. What is your reading comfort zone?
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13. Can you read on the bus?
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14. Favorite place to read?
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15. What is your policy on book lending?
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16. Do you ever dog-ear books?
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17. Do you ever write in the margins of your books?
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18.  Not even with text books?
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19. What is your favorite language to read in?
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20. What makes you love a book?
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21. What will inspire you to recommend a book?
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22. Favorite genre?
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23. Genre you rarely read (but wish you did?)
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24. Favorite biography?
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25. Have you ever read a self-help book?
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26. Favorite cookbook?
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27. Most inspirational book you’ve read this year (fiction or non-fiction)?
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28. Favorite reading snack?
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29. Name a case in which hype ruined your reading experience.
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30. How often do you agree with critics about a book?
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31. How do you feel about giving bad/negative reviews?
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32. If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you chose?
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33. Most intimidating book you’ve ever read?
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34. Most intimidating book you’re too nervous to begin?
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35. Favorite Poet?
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36. How many books do you usually have checked out of the library at any given time?
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37. How often have you returned book to the library unread?
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38. Favorite fictional character?
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39. Favorite fictional villain?
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40. Books I’m most likely to bring on vacation?
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41. The longest I’ve gone without reading.
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42. Name a book that you could/would not finish.
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43. What distracts you easily when you’re reading?
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44. Favorite film adaptation of a novel?
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45. Most disappointing film adaptation?
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46. The most money I’ve ever spent in the bookstore at one time?
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47. How often do you skim a book before reading it?
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48. What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through?
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49. Do you like to keep your books organized?
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50. Do you prefer to keep books or give them away once you’ve read them?
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51. Are there any books you’ve been avoiding?
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52. Name a book that made you angry.
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53. A book you didn’t expect to like but did?
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54. A book that you expected to like but didn’t?
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55. Favorite guilt-free, pleasure reading?
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Almost an Evening is a series of three one act plays:

Waiting: Nelson is waiting in a waiting room without a door. How did he get there? How can he leave? How long before he can leave? Surely somebody will know, right?

Four Benches: One, a British secret agent, is literally and figuratively in the dark. He is not alone though. With him is at least a very naked Texan. But who else is there? And did anyone hear that shot as well?

Debate: An audience is witness of a debate between God who Judges and God who Loves. This debate ends abrupt enough, but when afterward a young couple from the audience has dinner and a new debate starts, how will that one end…or start over again when the actor who played God who Judges steps in with his date?

I read on the Internet that the staged plays only take around 90 minutes. That is probably the same amount as it took me to read all three of them. I have to say though, that although the complete three plays are only 78 pages I enjoyed every one of them. Coen delivers three fantastic little, but complete, stories. With his wit, which we have seen in the many films he made  together with his brother, he drags us into worlds only a brain like his can come up with and put on paper so perfectly.

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A couple of years ago I was the owner and moderator of a Yahoo! group called Books2Movies. It was a nice group with people from all over the world who liked to talk about books that had been made into movies. A few of the people even read a book a month and saw the movie to talk about it and share their thoughts. Questions were asked, answers were given…we had a good time.

But then it happened: I didn’t have enough time to run the group properly anymore and the group faded away and became a very quiet place until eventually I made the decision to delete the group completely.

Now, here is the good news: I started Books2Movies again, now in a personal place on my server space. It’s still in early stages, but I hope, if you enjoy talking about books that are made into movies, you will decide to register and start chatting. I’m looking forward to give you my welcome!

Oh, by the way: apart from Books2Movies, there are also forums for general book talk, talk about reading and talk about writing. Let’s make Book Babble (that’s what I called the place) a room for every reader and/or writer out there.

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Five women and one man come together every month to discuss a Jane Austen book. They are very different people with the love for Austen in common. Every month (is every chapter) another book is discussed at one of the group member’s home and the life story of that character is being highlighted in that particular chapter and throughout the story it becomes apparant everybody has had their own share of troubles, losses and other stuff that is common to life.

It is difficult to give my opinion about this book, because when I just started reading I was not sure I wanted Jane Austen’s work analyzed, but a bit further down the road I wished there was more analyzing of the books. It now seemed for me the book club could have read books by any author, because the book club is only a reason to give every character his/her own chapter. Nonetheless enjoyable enough read to keep me going ’till the end. 

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Yes, I’m all excited: Kieron Connolly is coming to “my” store, the American Book Center in The Hague, The Netherlands! He will be with us on Friday October 8th to participate in our Open Mike Night, where he will read from his latest book “Harold” and on Saturday October 9th to give a workshop and have a book signing afterward. So, should you be in the neighbourhood, be sure to come by.

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It is Dublin, it is Tuesday and for Harold, Paul, Donald and Mickey it is a different Tuesday than usual. A strange breeze is blowing over the river Liffey. A breeze that seems to have an effect on time, memories, hope and the normal order of life. Few people notice, but the aforementioned four do and they will have a Tuesday they will never forget, or remember. Meet Harold…

Another magnificent book is delivered by Connolly. With his wit and brilliant style he has written a beautiful story about love, life, death and everything in between and beyond. I can tell you, you will love all the characters. I can tell you,  you will laugh and cry (even at the same time probably). I can also tell you, I’m not going to tell you anymore. You just have to read it yourself. Please do your self the favor.

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Eric is trying to summon a demon to get his three wishes granted. One day he succeeds, he has a demon in his little bedroom. Well, he thinks he has a demon, but actually he summoned Discworld’s wizard Rincewind and Eric gets more than what he bargained for.
Together they begin an adventure, and history lesson, through time, space and nothingness that will take them (literaly) to hell and back.

Another book in the Discworld series created by Pratchett. Very funny and light as his other books I already read. This certainly isn’t the last book I will read in the series.

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A new governess is hired to care for the two children, Flora and Miles, living at Bly. She takes up a friendship with Mrs. Grose who has been there much longer. Everything goes well with the governess and dear sweet Flora until her brother Miles comes home, expelled from school. The governess is puzzled by this, because when she lives and works with Miles he is the sweetest boy alive. Then one evening during her walk outside the governess sees a human form up in the abandoned tower. After telling Mrs. Grose the governess is convinced it is the ghost of a man who has lived in the house. When a second ghost shows, this time a woman, things get really out of hand and the children seem to know more about it and their involvement becomes apparent with every day the governess is with them.

This classic ghost story is a delight to read. Without “special effects” and unbelievable telling James has written an intriguing horrific plot that sucks you in and doesn’t let go until the last sentence. And what a last sentence it is: total shock! show spoiler

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Dexter Morgan is, on the outside a lovable creature. He is handsome, well behaved, has a good job as an analyst with the police and has sort of a girlfriend. He could be as normal as a person is able to. But he is not. He has a dark side, a very dark side: his Dark Passenger. And this passenger is a serial killer, without emotions and feelings. But it’s also a picky serial killer because he only kills other murderers. That’s what Dexter been thought by his foster dad Harry, a policeman. Dexter has to abide Harry’s rules to keep himself out of trouble and to look as human as he can.
But trouble he is in: another serial killer is on the loose and along the way Dexter notices the killer is making it personal, too personal!

I knew the series before I read this book and I love the series so I was a bit worried about how I would perceive this story. I shouldn’t have worried, because the book is great. The atmosphere is eerie, the characters all believable and with depth and the (dark) comedy Lindsay put in makes you laugh out loud more than once. So, even if you know the series you can easily pick up this book for a great ride a la Dexter.

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Richard Wisden is a television celebrity. He has his own garden shows and is very popular. So why would he commit suicide in a hotel room? A question Libby Wisden is desperate to answer. In fact, she doesn’t believe he killed him self, she is convinced her late husband was murdered. Determent and wealthy as she is, she hires different people (a detective, doctor, photographer to name a few) to figure out specific facts and insights concerning Richard’s death. Not an easy task, because along the way secrets, lies and unknown truths come to light and Richard’s life turns out to be as knotted as his gardens.

Geoff Nicholson delivered a strange but compelling plot yet again. Every character, with his or her own voice, takes the reader by the hand and doesn’t let go. With ease you will be taken through a very strange, twisted and sometimes disturbing labyrinth called human life.

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