Old Blues Chapter and Verse | 52 Nifty Bookish Qs Tag @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded February 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This tag was created by Adrian over at Stripped Cover Lit. I was tagged in the original, which can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=QPBt1QZmdec&t=887s
I was also tagged to do it by Paul at PK's Books: youtube.com/watch?v=wnvPz5pkUAA
And by Shawn the Book Maniac: youtube.com/watch?v=DyqC6vaRJpk
Books featured herein:
- Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
- The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carre
- Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Industrial Oz by Scott Starbuck
- Water Music by T.C. Boyle
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor
1. What book are you reading right now?
2. What was the last thing you highlighted?
3. What do you plan to read next?
4. One fiction writer, living or dead, with which I would like to grab a drink.
5. One non-fiction writer, living or dead, with which I would like to grab a drink.
6. One poet, living or dead, with which I would like to grab a drink.
7. One booktuber with which I would like to grab a drink.
8. Emily Dickinson or Edgar Allen Poe?
9. Hemingway or Fitzgerald?
10. Jane Austen or Charles Dickens?
11. Harris or Hitchens?
12. Stephen King or Michael Crichton?
13. Bret Easton Ellis or Chuck Palahniuk?
14. Kurt Vonnegut or John Green?
15. Shakespeare’s poems or plays?
16. Adrian Fort or Dalton Gentry?
17. Cormac McCarthy or JK Rowling?
18. Hannibal Lecter or Voldemort?
19. TC Boyle or George Saunders?
20. Good writing or good story?
21. YA or Children’s Lit?
22. Irony or humor?
23. Sci-fi or horror?
24. Fantasy or non-fiction?
25. Rather find a new-favorite contemporary writer, or a new-favorite old time great?
26. Sonnet or haiku?
27. Sestina or villanelle?
28. Spend the evening at a library or bookstore?
29. Magazine or Wikipedia article?
30. Dictionary or encyclopedia?
31. The writer I would like to write my biography.
32. I do/ do not highlight in my books.
33. I do/ do not write in my books.
34. Earliest memory of a library?
35. Last time you went to the library?
36. Have you ever stolen/accidentally stolen books from the library?
37. Ballpark: How many books do you own?
38. How many books do you think would make for a reasonable personal library?
39. So, there’s sense and sensibilities and sea monsters, pride and prejudice and zombies, etc, how do you feel about the phenomenon?
40. Horror trope you would like to see get more love?
41. Something that you think gets underutilized in sci-fi?
42. Flash fiction: Form of and format of literature, or, it’s just a short short story, dummy?
43. If you could own one book from all of history, what would it be?
44. Audiobooks. The same as reading?
45. Most literary songwriter of your lifetime?
46. What writer embarrasses you the most because you haven’t read them?
47. What writer embarrasses you because you’ve read too much from them?
48. What is a biography you are looking forward to reading?
49. Do you have a dream reading cubby?
50. Last literary phenomenon that really got your gears grinding?
51. What was the last piece of literature that changed the way you read?
52. What booktuber have you been watching the most recently?
I tag:
Andrew B: youtube.com/channel/UCO12mbpzTRKIdRt1BIg3G0A
Jasmine at Novel Thoughts:
youtube.com/channel/UCiEF59s5gKnajF_c0qTOggA
Ana at BookSpotting:
youtube.com/channel/UCbYQ8BN6m7H8tZYzenHX06w
This tag was created by Adrian over at Stripped Cover Lit. I was tagged in the original, which can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=QPBt1QZmdec&t=887s
I was also tagged to do it by Paul at PK's Books: youtube.com/watch?v=wnvPz5pkUAA
And by Shawn the Book Maniac: youtube.com/watch?v=DyqC6vaRJpk
Books featured herein:
- Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
- The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carre
- Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Industrial Oz by Scott Starbuck
- Water Music by T.C. Boyle
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor
1. What book are you reading right now?
2. What was the last thing you highlighted?
3. What do you plan to read next?
4. One fiction writer, living or dead, with which I would like to grab a drink.
5. One non-fiction writer, living or dead, with which I would like to grab a drink.
6. One poet, living or dead, with which I would like to grab a drink.
7. One booktuber with which I would like to grab a drink.
8. Emily Dickinson or Edgar Allen Poe?
9. Hemingway or Fitzgerald?
10. Jane Austen or Charles Dickens?
11. Harris or Hitchens?
12. Stephen King or Michael Crichton?
13. Bret Easton Ellis or Chuck Palahniuk?
14. Kurt Vonnegut or John Green?
15. Shakespeare’s poems or plays?
16. Adrian Fort or Dalton Gentry?
17. Cormac McCarthy or JK Rowling?
18. Hannibal Lecter or Voldemort?
19. TC Boyle or George Saunders?
20. Good writing or good story?
21. YA or Children’s Lit?
22. Irony or humor?
23. Sci-fi or horror?
24. Fantasy or non-fiction?
25. Rather find a new-favorite contemporary writer, or a new-favorite old time great?
26. Sonnet or haiku?
27. Sestina or villanelle?
28. Spend the evening at a library or bookstore?
29. Magazine or Wikipedia article?
30. Dictionary or encyclopedia?
31. The writer I would like to write my biography.
32. I do/ do not highlight in my books.
33. I do/ do not write in my books.
34. Earliest memory of a library?
35. Last time you went to the library?
36. Have you ever stolen/accidentally stolen books from the library?
37. Ballpark: How many books do you own?
38. How many books do you think would make for a reasonable personal library?
39. So, there’s sense and sensibilities and sea monsters, pride and prejudice and zombies, etc, how do you feel about the phenomenon?
40. Horror trope you would like to see get more love?
41. Something that you think gets underutilized in sci-fi?
42. Flash fiction: Form of and format of literature, or, it’s just a short short story, dummy?
43. If you could own one book from all of history, what would it be?
44. Audiobooks. The same as reading?
45. Most literary songwriter of your lifetime?
46. What writer embarrasses you the most because you haven’t read them?
47. What writer embarrasses you because you’ve read too much from them?
48. What is a biography you are looking forward to reading?
49. Do you have a dream reading cubby?
50. Last literary phenomenon that really got your gears grinding?
51. What was the last piece of literature that changed the way you read?
52. What booktuber have you been watching the most recently?
I tag:
Andrew B: youtube.com/channel/UCO12mbpzTRKIdRt1BIg3G0A
Jasmine at Novel Thoughts:
youtube.com/channel/UCiEF59s5gKnajF_c0qTOggA
Ana at BookSpotting:
youtube.com/channel/UCbYQ8BN6m7H8tZYzenHX06w
