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So no BEA for this girl. Bummer.Instead, I'll be participating in Armchair BEA.
Today we have two different topics to discuss: ourself and classics. First, we were asked to choose five questions to answer out of the 11 they provided. Since this is my first year participating in Armchair BEA, I'll do my best to introduce myself :)
Please tell us a little bit about yourself: Who are you? How long have you been blogging? Why did you get into blogging?
My name is Andrea and I'm a native Ohioan. I've been blogging since October 2012 and loving it. I've been a lot of great people and found some awesome books I might not have found otherwise. I was originally worried that I would be annoyed with constantly writing posts and having to review books, but it's something I enjoy. It also allows me to really focus on what I liked and didn't like about novels so when I give recommendations, I can back them up.
What are you currently reading, or what is your favorite book you have read so far in 2013?
I'm currently reading Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard. I'm only 42 pages in, but so far it's really good. I've seen a lot of tweets about A Darkness Strange and Lovely so I really wanted to first the first novel before the sequel came out.
Tell us one non-book-related thing that everyone reading your blog may not know about you.
I ran my first half-marathon in February at Disney World. It was an awesome and invigorating feeling to cross that finish line after running from Epcot to Magic Kingdom and back again. Also, something I plan on doing again next year. Of course, I'll train a bit more as running 13.1 miles turned out to be a lot harder than I had thought.
If you could eat dinner with any author or character, who would it be and why?
Yikes. There are far too many characters to choose from, so I'm going to stick with my favorite author: Sherrilyn Kenyon. I meet her at a book signing three or four years ago and she was so sweet! She really keeps in touch with her readers, either directly or through Carl, and refuses to put a book out that she isn't happy with. For this reason, book release dates have been pushed back. While it stinks that books get pushed back, I love that she cares enough about her readers to only put out the very best. Plus, her books are awesome-sauce and I read them in a day.
What literary location would you most like to visit? Why?
I would really love to go to England. Shakespeare, Austen, Bronte, etc. Enough said.
If I were to recommend a book to non-classic believer, I'd probably go with my favorites:
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I don't think loving, or even liking, classic novels is a requirement to be a reader, but at the same time I think you're missing brilliant pieces of literature. And now that I've been thinking about them, I think I need to go read Pride and Prejudice.
What about you? Are you a fan of the classic novels? Which are your favorites?
