Follow Friday: Character To Date and To Be

Q. Circle time! Time to share. What character in a book would you most like to be, what character in a book would you most like to date?

To Date:
In modern times - Lucas Cortez, my February Book Crush of the Month
In ye olde times - Devlen Daviian from (the goddess) Maria V. Snyder's Study Series

To Be:
Paige Winterbourne - she's a Harvard-educated witch...who's married to Lucas Cortez
or
Renesmee Cullen - even though I hate her and her name even more, everyone loves her and I would finally end up with Jacob

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Hi New #FF! I'm on the Grand Ol' South Tour this week, so it might take me a few extra days to follow you back but I WILL get to all of you!

My Playlist and Author Obsessions

I LOVE this week's questions!

Q. What is on your current playlist right now?

Bruno Mars "Grenade"(hardcore stalkery love gets me every time)Leona Lewis' latest album(esp. "Happy")Jessie J (this woman is a musical genius)

 

"If you find a book you love, do you hunt down other books by the same author?"

This is EXACTLY how I like to read.  I become a fan of an author, not of individual books.  Here are some authors that I will read ANYTHING by:

Maria V. Snyder

Alice Hoffman

Jessica Day George
Shannon Hale
Kristin Cashore

As you can see, the genre I author-stalk in is YA high fantasy, which is also what I love writing in as well.

Follow Friday: Judging a Book By its Cover

Q. Do you judge a book by it's cover?

Now that you mention it...

A cluttered or yucky cover might even taint how well I perceive the book to be written. Only slightly, though.

I prefer simple, bold designs like Delirium

or Choker. I remember a book better if I can visualize it.

#100factsaboutme...Or Just Five Book-Related Ones

Q. Inspired by the inane twitter trend of #100factsaboutme, give us five BOOK RELATED silly facts about you.

1. Every year when I was a girl growing up in New York State (like Almanzo Wilder) I would read the Little House series over winter break.  No you don't understand, this was an event.  I put on a long white nightgown (made of fire-retardant polyester, not wool, unfortunately) and walked carefully down the dark hallway as if I were holding a flickering candle.  I had to drink hot chocolate while I read because Laura Ingalls Wilder's food descriptions were so detailed.
2. I'm so deathly afraid of spoilers that I won't even read the entire jacket flap.  All I need is the one-line hook and I'm good to go.  Just last week I had to stop reading an email from Krispy because she told me which guy she preferred in Matched and I didn't even want to know their names.  I couldn't read that part of her email until I finished the book a few days later.  I still haven't actually finished the email because she goes on to talk about another book series.
3. In the last 10 years, I've NEVER re-read a book.  EVER.  Except for the Twilight series.  ::ducks::  I think it has to do with the spoiler thing.  Once I know how a story ends, I lose all impetus to read it.  I'm a diehard "what happens next?" girl.  In fact,
4. I've continued to read/listen to series that I'm completely bored with just to see what happens next to the characters.
5. I don't count non-fiction books as part of my "books I've read this year" number.  And I don't put them on Goodreads.  This is partially because I rarely read a non-fiction book cover to cover.