Well, yayrah...
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perididdleName: Madison Berry
Age: 12
Location: Missouri
1. Are you currently reading a book? Yep
2. If so, what book(s) and why? I’m reading quite a few, but the one I’m focusing on is Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. I started reading it because of the movie, but now that I’ve gotten further on through it, I like the way it goes into mother-daughter relationships over the course of three generations, and how the relationships got that way. Also how it shows that a friendship can stick together for decades despite so many things happening.
3. How often do you read? I can’t go a day without reading for at least half an hour. I usually get in about an hour or hour and a half a day, though.
4. What are your favorite types of books? Hmm, fantasy. Or just fiction. I’m not much of a non-fiction reader unless it happens to be about a racehorse or a war.
5. Do you have a favorite book? I suppose so
6. If so, what book and why? Probably ‘A Walk To Remember’, just because I’m a big sap for relationship stories, even more so for doomed or brief, depressingly ones. Plus, it’s simply well written.
7. Do you have a favorite author? Not really
8. If so, who and why? I have too many authors I like to choose just one. If I had to, I guess it’d be J.K. Rowling, or Lauren Hillenbrand.
9. How do you choose a book? I go on a point system. Two points for if it’s fiction, two more points for if it’s fantasy or sci-fi, one for if I like the author, and five if the plot appeals to me. Or maybe I just wander around a bookstore, pulling random, fun-looking titles off the shelves and reading the overview until I find one that sounds good. Hmm…
10. Where do you get most of your books? Barnes & Noble
11. Do you have a favorite time or place to read? Not particularly. I’m kind of forced to read the most during free time in class, but it’s not like I really like it there. A comfy couch or computer chair is fine for me.
12. Have you ever read a book you hated with a violent, burning passion? If so, what? The first Chronicle of Narnia book. It just grated against my nerves, and I didn’t like where the story was going…or, well, the story in general…and I had a problem with how it was written. So I won’t read the other 6 books.
13. Do books cause you to exhibit emotion such as tears, screaming, throwing things? Oh, yes. In fact, if I don’t do any of those three at least once, chances are I won’t like the book.
14. Which do you think are better the books or the movies based on them? Books are better. All the time.
15. What is your favorite classic novel? Err…Les Miserables counts, doesn’t it?
16. Has reading influenced your vocabulary and grammar? Certainly. Though, it's mostly for the worst…I tend to pick up on a way a character speaks and take things from that pattern of speech. I have a very strange and mixed vocabulary now.
17. Has reading a variety of novels inspired you to write your own stories? YES. Everything I read, be it an annoying or brilliant, tends to inspire some new plot, or storyline, or scene. Sometimes new stories altogether. I’m still trying to figure whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing...
That was my attempt at not ranting. I'm quite bad at it. But that used to be very long, and I would carry on forever. I fixed it as best I could, though. Lol.
-Maddy
Age: 12
Location: Missouri
1. Are you currently reading a book? Yep
2. If so, what book(s) and why? I’m reading quite a few, but the one I’m focusing on is Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. I started reading it because of the movie, but now that I’ve gotten further on through it, I like the way it goes into mother-daughter relationships over the course of three generations, and how the relationships got that way. Also how it shows that a friendship can stick together for decades despite so many things happening.
3. How often do you read? I can’t go a day without reading for at least half an hour. I usually get in about an hour or hour and a half a day, though.
4. What are your favorite types of books? Hmm, fantasy. Or just fiction. I’m not much of a non-fiction reader unless it happens to be about a racehorse or a war.
5. Do you have a favorite book? I suppose so
6. If so, what book and why? Probably ‘A Walk To Remember’, just because I’m a big sap for relationship stories, even more so for doomed or brief, depressingly ones. Plus, it’s simply well written.
7. Do you have a favorite author? Not really
8. If so, who and why? I have too many authors I like to choose just one. If I had to, I guess it’d be J.K. Rowling, or Lauren Hillenbrand.
9. How do you choose a book? I go on a point system. Two points for if it’s fiction, two more points for if it’s fantasy or sci-fi, one for if I like the author, and five if the plot appeals to me. Or maybe I just wander around a bookstore, pulling random, fun-looking titles off the shelves and reading the overview until I find one that sounds good. Hmm…
10. Where do you get most of your books? Barnes & Noble
11. Do you have a favorite time or place to read? Not particularly. I’m kind of forced to read the most during free time in class, but it’s not like I really like it there. A comfy couch or computer chair is fine for me.
12. Have you ever read a book you hated with a violent, burning passion? If so, what? The first Chronicle of Narnia book. It just grated against my nerves, and I didn’t like where the story was going…or, well, the story in general…and I had a problem with how it was written. So I won’t read the other 6 books.
13. Do books cause you to exhibit emotion such as tears, screaming, throwing things? Oh, yes. In fact, if I don’t do any of those three at least once, chances are I won’t like the book.
14. Which do you think are better the books or the movies based on them? Books are better. All the time.
15. What is your favorite classic novel? Err…Les Miserables counts, doesn’t it?
16. Has reading influenced your vocabulary and grammar? Certainly. Though, it's mostly for the worst…I tend to pick up on a way a character speaks and take things from that pattern of speech. I have a very strange and mixed vocabulary now.
17. Has reading a variety of novels inspired you to write your own stories? YES. Everything I read, be it an annoying or brilliant, tends to inspire some new plot, or storyline, or scene. Sometimes new stories altogether. I’m still trying to figure whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing...
That was my attempt at not ranting. I'm quite bad at it. But that used to be very long, and I would carry on forever. I fixed it as best I could, though. Lol.
-Maddy
