Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

The read-a-thon is coming to a close! Tell us what would be your reaction in those Bookish Scenarios.



1. You have to get rid of all your books and you can only keep one from each of these genres - contemporary, fantasy, non-fiction and one other genre of your choosing. What books do you keep?

2. You're at the bookstore and you hear a teenager telling their mom they don't like to read, but their mom insists they pick something. You walk over and recommend a book you think is great for people who aren't big on reading - what book is it?

3. You're not feeling yourself and need a pick me up. Which book do you read to put yourself in a great mood?

4. You go back in time for a day to your teenage years. What book would you most likely have caught yourself reading?

5. Your friend surprises you with a 4 day trip and you have 1 hour to pack. Which book do you bring to read on the way?

6. Your house has been robbed! Don't worry - everyone is safe, but your bookshelf has been raided. What's the book you really hope is safe?

7. Your friend borrows a book and returns it in awful condition. Do you a) Just pretend you haven't noticed b) Ask them to repurchase it or c) Secretly do the same to something of theirs?

1. You have to get rid of all your books and you can only keep one from each of these genres - contemporary, fantasy, non-fiction and one other genre of your choosing. What books do you keep?
contemporary: Eat, Pray, Love
fantasy: The Final Empire
non-fiction: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
classic: To Kill a Mockingbird

2. You're at the bookstore and you hear a teenager telling their mom they don't like to read, but their mom insists they pick something. You walk over and recommend a book you think is great for people who aren't big on reading - what book is it?
It's Kind of a Funny Story

3. You're not feeling yourself and need a pick me up. Which book do you read to put yourself in a great mood?
Clockwork Angel

4. You go back in time for a day to your teenage years. What book would you most likely have caught yourself reading?
Twilight

5. Your friend surprises you with a 4 day trip and you have 1 hour to pack. Which book do you bring to read on the way?
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

6. Your house has been robbed! Don't worry - everyone is safe, but your bookshelf has been raided. What's the book you really hope is safe?
Only one!? :o Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

7. Your friend borrows a book and returns it in awful condition. Do you a) Just pretend you haven't noticed b) Ask them to repurchase it or c) Secretly do the same to something of theirs?
b!

1. You have to get rid of all your books and you can only keep one from each of these genres - contemporary, fantasy, non-fiction and one other genre of your choosing. What books do you keep?
Contemporary - A Brief History of Seven Killings (because I want to re-read it soon)
Fantasy - The Night Circus
Non-fiction - Racing Through the Dark
My choice of genre - poetry - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

2. You're at the bookstore and you hear a teenager telling their mom they don't like to read, but their mom insists they pick something. You walk over and recommend a book you think is great for people who aren't big on reading - what book is it?
Any of the Harry Potter books.

3. You're not feeling yourself and need a pick me up. Which book do you read to put yourself in a great mood?
Anne of Green Gables

4. You go back in time for a day to your teenage years. What book would you most likely have caught yourself reading?
I had a big classics phase as a teenager so probably something by Thomas Hardy or Jane Austen

5. Your friend surprises you with a 4 day trip and you have 1 hour to pack. Which book do you bring to read on the way?
Fall of Giants

6. Your house has been robbed! Don't worry - everyone is safe, but your bookshelf has been raided. What's the book you really hope is safe?
Harry Potter y la cámara secreta

7. Your friend borrows a book and returns it in awful condition. Do you a) Just pretend you haven't noticed b) Ask them to repurchase it or c) Secretly do the same to something of theirs?
Probably a, and I'd resolve not to lend them books ever again!

1. You have to get rid of all your books and you can only keep one from each of these genres - contemporary, fantasy, non-fiction and one other genre of your choosing. What books do you keep?
Contemporary - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Fantasy - The Name of the Wind
Non-fiction -More Than a Carpenter
Genre of Choice (Classic) - Jane Eyre

2. You're at the bookstore and you hear a teenager telling their mom they don't like to read, but their mom insists they pick something. You walk over and recommend a book you think is great for people who aren't big on reading - what book is it?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

3. You're not feeling yourself and need a pick me up. Which book do you read to put yourself in a great mood?
Any of the Harry Potter books

4. You go back in time for a day to your teenage years. What book would you most likely have caught yourself reading?
The Princess Diaries series or a Harry Potter book

5. Your friend surprises you with a 4 day trip and you have 1 hour to pack. Which book do you bring to read on the way?
Dark Matter

6. Your house has been robbed! Don't worry - everyone is safe, but your bookshelf has been raided. What's the book you really hope is safe?
Can I say the entire Harry Potter box set? If not I'll pick Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

7. Your friend borrows a book and returns it in awful condition. Do you a) Just pretend you haven't noticed b) Ask them to repurchase it or c) Secretly do the same to something of theirs?
B. I'm quite vocal about bringing my books back in good condition so my friend should have already known about it when they were borrowing it. I'll also never be lending that person books ever again.

1. You have to get rid of all your books and you can only keep one from each of these genres - contemporary, fantasy, non-fiction and one other genre of your choosing. What books do you keep?
Fantasy - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (but I need the whole series!)
Contemporary - Wonder
Non-Fiction - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Horror - It
I probably would try to trade the contemporary for a classic.

2. You're at the bookstore and you hear a teenager telling their mom they don't like to read, but their mom insists they pick something. You walk over and recommend a book you think is great for people who aren't big on reading - what book is it? This is more difficult than it looks, I should talk to her/him to learn her/his interest. I graphic novel, couls be also be considered.

3. You're not feeling yourself and need a pick me up. Which book do you read to put yourself in a great mood? Harry Potter!

4. You go back in time for a day to your teenage years. What book would you most likely have caught yourself reading? Probably a school book, but I would love to caught me reading Pet Sematary. I was so scared with that book, that could be fun just seing me reading it.

5. Your friend surprises you with a 4 day trip and you have 1 hour to pack. Which book do you bring to read on the way? Whatever I am reading at that moment, as long as it is not a hardcover book, they are too heavy and difficult to take on travels.

6. Your house has been robbed! Don't worry - everyone is safe, but your bookshelf has been raided. What's the book you really hope is safe? Harry Potter series ... I mean, I moved from the other side of the world and the only thing I brought was my first five books of the series, the rest I bought them here ... so I hope they are Ok :(

7. Your friend borrows a book and returns it in awful condition. Do you a) Just pretend you haven't noticed b) Ask them to repurchase it or c) Secretly do the same to something of theirs? I don't lend books. I used to, but I had a couple of bad experiences, so not anymore. What I did on that ocassion, was option a, I didn't say anything, but the next time they asked, I just nicely told them "No". Now I avoid that kind of problem, just not lending books. If a very good friend ask me, the next thing is that that very good friend is going to receive that book for Christmas or her birthday :)

1. You have to get rid of all your books and you can only keep one from each of these genres - contemporary, fantasy, non-fiction and one other genre of your choosing. What books do you keep?
Contemporary - House Rules
Fantasy - The Time Traveler's Wife (tagged on Goodreads as both fantasy and sci-fi, so I guess it counts)
Non-fiction - Can I switch this out for another genre? I don't care much for non-fiction.
My choice (Historical fiction) - The Help

2. You're at the bookstore and you hear a teenager telling their mom they don't like to read, but their mom insists they pick something. You walk over and recommend a book you think is great for people who aren't big on reading - what book is it?
It's an expected answer I'm sure, but I would honestly pick Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

3. You're not feeling yourself and need a pick me up. Which book do you read to put yourself in a great mood?
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

4. You go back in time for a day to your teenage years. What book would you most likely have caught yourself reading?
Harry Potter Boxset

5. Your friend surprises you with a 4 day trip and you have 1 hour to pack. Which book do you bring to read on the way?
Honestly, it would probably be whatever's next from the library. Right now, that's The Hate U Give

6. Your house has been robbed! Don't worry - everyone is safe, but your bookshelf has been raided. What's the book you really hope is safe?
The Addams Family: An Evilution. That book was expensive!

7. Your friend borrows a book and returns it in awful condition. Do you a) Just pretend you haven't noticed b) Ask them to repurchase it or c) Secretly do the same to something of theirs?
It wouldn't happen because I never, ever lend out my books. I'm also not great with confrontation, so I'd probably just keep quiet and repurchase the book myself, with a mental note never to lend to that person again.

1. You have to get rid of all your books and you can only keep one from each of these genres - contemporary, fantasy, non-fiction and one other genre of your choosing. What books do you keep?
Love & Gelato, Brave Story, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story, and Of Mice and Men.

2. You're at the bookstore and you hear a teenager telling their mom they don't like to read, but their mom insists they pick something. You walk over and recommend a book you think is great for people who aren't big on reading - what book is it?
Ready Player One

3. You're not feeling yourself and need a pick me up. Which book do you read to put yourself in a great mood?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

4. You go back in time for a day to your teenage years. What book would you most likely have caught yourself reading?
Honestly - probably only required reading for school.

5. Your friend surprises you with a 4 day trip and you have 1 hour to pack. Which book do you bring to read on the way?
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

6. Your house has been robbed! Don't worry - everyone is safe, but your bookshelf has been raided. What's the book you really hope is safe?
The Secret of the Old Clock - really any of my Nancy Drew books that I got from my grandmother.

7. Your friend borrows a book and returns it in awful condition. Do you a) Just pretend you haven't noticed b) Ask them to repurchase it or c) Secretly do the same to something of theirs?
I would probably ask them to repurchase it.

1. You have to get rid of all your books and you can only keep one from each of these genres - contemporary, fantasy, non-fiction and one other genre of your choosing. What books do you keep?
Oh my.
contemporary: The Smell of Other People's Houses
fantasy: Uprooted (hard one, but I mostly own series...)
non-fiction: I can't think of something
dystopia: Hollow World

2. You're at the bookstore and you hear a teenager telling their mom they don't like to read, but their mom insists they pick something. You walk over and recommend a book you think is great for people who aren't big on reading - what book is it?
The Knife of Never Letting Go

3. You're not feeling yourself and need a pick me up. Which book do you read to put yourself in a great mood?
Hollow World

4. You go back in time for a day to your teenage years. What book would you most likely have caught yourself reading?
Something by Stephen King. Maybe The Talisman.

5. Your friend surprises you with a 4 day trip and you have 1 hour to pack. Which book do you bring to read on the way?
Haha, you're funny. I'd pick my Kindle with 10 already ongoing books in it :p

6. Your house has been robbed! Don't worry - everyone is safe, but your bookshelf has been raided. What's the book you really hope is safe?
Didn't happen, they preferred my iPad. Honestly I can rebuy my fav books, so nothing I would worry too much about.

7. Your friend borrows a book and returns it in awful condition. Do you a) Just pretend you haven't noticed b) Ask them to repurchase it or c) Secretly do the same to something of theirs?
Silently send them to hell. I'd just pretend I haven't noticed (in fact, I don't check the books when they come back, to avoid a heartache :p).