Hannahs Books | A Somewhat Autobiographical Tag [CC] @HannahsBooks | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In which I celebrate Tag Wednesday (yet again)—this time by responding to the Somewhat Autobiographical Tag.

The tag was created by Mark at Book Time with Elvis.
Original tag: youtu.be/HUj3mZOgREQ
Mark was kind enough to tag me.

Books and Authors Mentioned:
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Koningsburg
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
The Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Encyclopedia Brown mysteries by Donald Sobol
The Nancy Drew mysteries by Carolyn Keene
An unknown biography of Helen Keller
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jane Auel
Gilgamesh
Antigone by Sophocles
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
The Rape of Lucrece by Shakespeare
Forever by Judy Blume
Biographies of the childhood years of artists and composers
Agatha Christie
Georgette Heyer
Stephen King
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
And the Skylark Sings with Me by David Albert
The Iliad by Homer
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

1. What was the number one bestselling book (fiction or nonfiction) on the day you were born? Have you read it?
2. What are some books (series or stand-alone) that immediately spring to mind when you think of your childhood?
3. School days are the best days of your life (apparently), but there you were forced to read some books you maybe wouldn't have chosen for yourself. Which did you enjoy?
4. Were you independent or part of a pack at school? Did you join in the reading fads of the day or do your own thing?
5. Can you remember your first experience encountering sex in a book from when you were in your turbulent teens?
6. What was some of the first nonfiction you encountered?
7. Whose bookshelf was more fun to raid, mum's or dad's?
8. How diverse is your library? *** (see below)
9. What types of books do you find difficult to discuss?
10. In what way do your life experiences and emotions shape your choice of reading?
11. In much the same way as our taste for food changes, so perhaps does our taste in books. How would you say your own reading tastes have evolved over the decades?
12. Unfortunately, we all feel down at certain times. Have you got a go-to book to raise you back up?
13. If you have to choose one book or author to "represent" each decade of your life. who or what would they be? (The books should be ones you read in that decade, not necessarily ones published in that decade).
14. Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinions. but how do you feel when people say reading is boring? And what would you say in defense of reading?
15. What was the number one selling book on the day of your most recent birthday (fiction or nonfiction) Have you read it?

***Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Arts & Photography
Biography
Business, Finance & Law
Calendars, Diaries & Annuals
Children's Books
Comics & Graphic Novels
Computing & Internet
Crafts, Hobbies & Home
Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Education Studies & Teaching
Erotica
Fiction
Food & Drink
Foreign Language Study & Reference
Health, Family & Lifestyle
History
Horror
Humor
LGBTQ+ Books
Mind, Body & Spirit
Music, Stage & Screen
Poetry, Drama & Criticism
Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences
Reference
Religion & Spirituality
Romance
School Books
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Science, Nature & Math
Scientific, Technical & Medical
Sports, Hobbies & Games
Travel & Holiday
University Textbooks
Young Adult

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