The Ern of Life

1. Imagine you sit in front of a fireplace. You read and beside you there is a cup with something hot in it. What would that be in your face: tea, coffee or hot chocolate?
Hot chocolate with marshmallows. I have only had coffee once in my life which is going to be a problem as I get into the apparently hipstery world that is college.

2. If an author gave you a chance to rewrite or to change the fate of a book character, who would you choose?
Yunior and Lola would’ve received the letter about ‘cure to what ails us, the cosmo DNA’ in the end of Oscar Wao. Although I know that’s beside the point.

3. Did your parents read stories to you when you were little? If yes, are there any special ones you remember the most?
Yes, Dumbo and ‘Little House on the Prarie’. We also played Mad Dog.

4. What do you like more? The smell of old, antiquarian books or the smell of new fresh ones that you just bought?
Actually the older ones  always smell better. I think books are like aged wines in that sense.

5. You get the opportunity to choose between two secret talents: either to be able to make things come to life through reading them or the gift to read yourself into a book. Which one would you like to have?
Read myself into a book; it’s the same as the first except with fewer consequences, i.e., incidental cross-overs and strange overlaps in books.

6. Do you have a favorite children’s book or a favorite fairy tale?
My favorite series growing up was always ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ and that’s still my favorite series. 

a7. Someone would talk to your friends and ask them to compare you to a book character. With whom do you think would the compare you to?

The best I’ve been compared to is Bean from Ender’s Game and that’s from my sister who does know me well. It’s okay. I’ll take what I can get.

8. Tell me the name of a writer who you would like to have as a friend.
Lemony Snicket, because then he could initiate me into VFD. Or Sylvia Plath although she would have been neurotic to death.

9. You can hide in a written down world for only one night. Into which world would you escape?
Middle Earth.

10. Something terrible happens and you have to flee to an unknown place and all you can take with you are three books of all the ones you own. Which three ones do you put in your bag?
I’ll take my longer books that I have yet to get to, so ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and ‘Infinite Jest’ because those’ll take me a while to get through, and then ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’ because that story tells you everything you need to know about everything.