Reading ^SparrowSong's treatises on writing makes me want to take down nearly all of my gallery (even though I hid 90% of it recently). It also makes me want to revise everything.

1) What author do you own the most books by?
I don't own as many books as I used to, but in the past, probably Anne Rice. I used to be freaking obsessed.

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
DEFINITELY Interview With The Vampire. People keep buying me copies.

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No. Especially because this is in a completely casual, Internet context.

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Barry from High Fidelity.

5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
A Clockwork Orange. I reread it at least once a year.

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Sophie's World. It might still be my favorite. After Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers.

7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
Probably some crappy romance novel. I have a place in my heart for those though.

8) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
Rereading the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman ten years after I initially read them, around 10 years old, is amazing and wonderful.

9) If you could force everyone you know to read one book, what would it be?
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen.

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature?
I don't read new books anymore.

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I think Sophie's World would make a wonderful Coraline-type movie.


12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Beautiful Losers. I can see it being made into some sensationalist bullshit. NO.

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
There's a dreamscape I have visited for years in which part of the city is Manhattan, and part of it is Louisiana. I can only guess it's Louisiana because of the insane Anne Rice literary diet I put myself on. I also have dreamt a LOT about Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.

14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
Definitely the Twilight books, but I do enjoy them anyway.

15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
I still can't get through most of Paradise Lost (though I WILL try again soon).

16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you’ve seen?
Pericles.

17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Personal choice, the French. Literary merit, the Russians.

18) Roth or Updike?
Updike.

19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
I don't actually care much for either writer, but David Sedaris has some good stuff out there (I've never finished a collection of his but he did write a marvelous essay about smoking for the New Yorker).

20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare, hands down.

21) Austen or Eliot?
Austen.

22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Early poets and nonfiction.

23) What is your favorite novel?
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen.

24) Play?
Much Ado About Nothing. With Angels in America tagging along as place one-and-a-half.

25) Poem?
Open up a volume of Millay and I can pretty much be satisfied. Her sonnet "Love is not blind..." is probably my favorite though.

26) Essay?
Not sure if Dorothy Parker's nonfiction counts towards this.

27) Short story?
Open up any Alice Adams collection. Point. I adore everything I've read of hers.

28) Work of nonfiction?
Did I mention that I really don't read nonfiction? Ooof.

29) Who is your favorite writer?
Um. Can't answer with one. Shakespeare, Alice Adams, Evelyn Waugh.


30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Besides most of the thriller/romance novelists? Probably Stephenie Meyer. The books just aren't great literature, but they are enjoyable. I also haven't liked her non-Twilight writing. Oh and Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, who was a teen sensation about ten years ago. I loved her books until I realized she described someone with "emerald" eyes and "midnight" hair. Sigh.

31) What is your desert island book?
The Complete Works of Shakespeare.

32) And… what are you reading right now?
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. I never read it because I didn't want the His Dark Materials series to end. I'm biting that bullet now.

I decided to go through my DeviantArt comments from when this place was newer, and when I was more involved in it and the community.



Holy crap I was annoying. And mean. And... actually, I was a 14-16 year old, plain and simple.


Anyone I knew (especially, especially ~Aladdin-Sane, who spent so much time talking to me then that I wonder how he can now)?


Sorry about that.


And thank you.

i've been writing a lot more lately. huh.

i am writing in an actual notebook now. well, i was.


i have two tattoos, an ipod, a smoking habit and a wine habit. i have a lover, though god knows how he describes me. i have an apartment i do not share with my mother. i have obsessions and fears and doubts. i have piercings and eyes that change color. i have convictions. i have an insane work ethic and sense of responsibility. i have my words. i have good intentions, though knowing the road to hell is paved with exactly those.